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You can do a lot in 1 week. You could go on a diet and lose a few pounds. You could paint your house. You could maybe even learn to dance. Or you could excavate more than 4,200 cubic yards of contaminated soil from a busy auto-repair and tire store in the middle of St. […]

When it rains, it pours, and when it pours BIO-WEST goes golfing. Despite very rainy weather that eventually disrupted the event, BIO-WEST participated in the Ashlin Mae Kleven (AMK) Foundation’s 10th Annual Charity Golf Tournament as a team sponsor. BIO-WEST President Darren Olsen also competed in the tournament, which was held September 15, 2015, at […]

Since 1998 BIO-WEST has supported Common Ground’s mission to provide life-enhancing outdoor activities for disabled youth and adults; the firm recently donated $10,000 to help build a lodge at the Beaver Mountain Ski Area in Logan Canyon, Utah. Common Ground, founded in 1993 as an AmeriCorps VISTA project, is eliciting community support to build this […]

When Orbital ATK Inc. (ATK) tested the largest solid rocket booster ever built for flight and the most powerful rocket booster in history, BIO-WEST had eyes and ears fixed elsewhere―on the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) population that nests on facility property. To monitor the three resident pairs, BIO-WEST set up in a triangulated position with […]

All through the winter months, sunshine becomes quite scarce in northern Utah. The sun rides low in the sky and the days are short. In January the sun is often obscured by clouds and overcast conditions, which is why the rooftop solar panels recently installed at BIO-WEST’s corporate headquarters produced only 368 kilowatt-hours during that […]

BIO-WEST recently responded to a 100 gallon diesel fuel spill in Nibley, Utah under a rapid response timeframe. The spill was caused by a fuel line break on a semi-truck. Approximately 4 cubic yards of contaminated soil from the shoulder of the highway was excavated and shipped off-site for treatment by aeration in a landfarm. […]

When a lightning-caused fire destabilized boulders and rocks at Baumgartner Campsite, a popular recreation spot near Featherville, Idaho, and necessitated its closure, the US Forest Service (USFS) contracted BIO-WEST and Western Geologic to mitigate the potential hazards to the campground and its future occupants. Professional Geologists Wes Thompson (BIO-WEST) and Bill Black (Western Geologic) inspected […]

Retired BIO-WEST founder Paul Holden and BIO-WEST employee Chadd VanZanten recently participated as volunteers at a kid’s fly fishing camp. The camp was hosted by local nature conservatory Stokes Nature Center, which is located in Logan Canyon in Cache Vally, Utah. Expertise and educational presentations were provided by Holden, VanZanten, and other members Cache Anglers, […]

In June 2010 BIO-WEST’s restoration technician Travis Taylor uncovered a population of hot spring phacelia (Phacelia thermalis), a rare plant, at Fort Peck Lake, Montana, in the Pines Recreation Area. Approximately 180 individuals of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) listed sensitive species were documented during the find, which was part a U. S. Army […]

BIO-WEST and Utah State University scientists say they are elated by the recent discovery of two new bee species in the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada. BIO-WEST was contracted in 2006 to complete a variety of ecological investigations for habitat restoration at Ash Meadows. To assist with a pollinator study, BIO-WEST subcontracted with […]