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Antelope Island is well known. Trail running on the island has devotees, and several trail running races are held on the island each year at distances of 25 kilometers, 50 kilometers, 50 miles and 100 miles. Hiking and cycling are popular activities, but water is scarce and there are few trees on the island. Though not strictly a
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Improvement Company to provide cattle and sheep ranching. At one point the island supported a population of 10,000 sheep and it was one of the
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Antelope Island is mostly dry grassland. The eastern side of the island is a grassy plain or prairie habitat from the eastern shoreline to the central mountainous spine of the island. Few trees and little fresh water is present on the island, though there are a few small, sometimes inconsistent
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Tours are available of the historical
Fielding Garr Ranch and surrounding environs. Buildings include the adobe ranch house, silo, bunkhouse, stables, springhome, and blacksmith shop. The Fielding Garr Ranch is a demonstration ranch and visitors can get an idea of the lifestyle that was lived by
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fee booth (at the beginning of the causeway). Continue straight along the causeway 6 miles to the island then take the left fork of the road, turning towards the south. In less than a half mile, at the second juncture, bear to the left again, and travel south along this road about 11 miles to the
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there are no permanent human inhabitants and conditions are quite dry and can be very hot during the summer. Freely flowing fresh water is not readily available on the island, though there are a few natural springs, mostly in the mountainous spine of the island and towards the south end of the
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ranch inhabitants in the past. The ranch area is one of the most popular bird watching locations on the island. Hiking and photography are also common. Horseback riding is available and horses can be rented at the ranch on an hourly basis.
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There are approximately 250 species of water and shore birds, grassland birds and raptors that have been seen on
Antelope Island, and many of them are found in the vicinity of the Fielding Garr Ranch. Some of these birds include
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was established. The cattle and sheep were removed and the island park was created to protect the wildlife and allow park visitors to enjoy the scenery and to camp, boat and visit the beaches of the Great Salt Lake.
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The trees surrounding the ranch, a small stream and pond, and an extensive marsh area, provide an isolated haven for birds along the east shore of the 15-mile-long sagebrush and grasslands covered
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to the island. Bison were becoming extinct over much of their range at the time, and he felt that their novelty value was high enough that he could ranch them, and charge people to hunt them.
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continuously inhabited thereafter until 1981 when the
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