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Show Salt Lake City Watershed Management Plan ' 99 Table 17 Big Cottonwood Canyon Land Ownership Owner Acreage Percentage Forest Service 25,242 78 Private 6,544 20 Salt Lake City 438 1 Salt Lake County 113 < 1 Total 32,337 100 8. Little Cottonwood Canyon Little Cottonwood Canyon is predominantly under Forest Service management. Private ownership, however, does exist at the canyon mouth, Wasatch Resort, Snowbird Ski Resort, the Town of Alta, and in various mining patents. Several land exchanges involving Salt Lake City, the Forest Service, Trust for Public Lands, The Nature Conservancy, and private landowners have altered the land ownership pattern in Little Cottonwood Canyon by placing more private property in public ownership. Table 18 Little Cottonwood Canyon Land Ownership Owner Acreage Percentage Forest Service 13,853 81 Private 3,227 19 Total 17,080 100 Page 49 |