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Another year, another plan for Salt Lake County’s Wasatch canyons

(Tribune file photo by Brian Maffly) A typical summer Saturday at Big Cottonwood Canyon's Donut Falls sees hundreds of visitors who make the one-mile hike in Cardiff Fork. Salt Lake County has adopted a new general plan for Big Cottonwood and three adjacent Wasatch canyons, where excessive recreational use and traffic threaten the very resources that make the canyons worthy places to tap for drinking water and enjoy nature.