We would like to acknowledge that Brigham Young University is situated on the traditional, unceded homelands of Noochee (“the people” in Ute) and of Indigenous peoples who have stewarded the land throughout generations. Utah is home to at least eight different tribal nations, and Utah Valley is the ancestral homeland of the Timpanogos, Ute, Newe (Shoshone), Goshute, and Paiute people. We recognize and respect the Noochee as the traditional stewards over the lands and waters on which we depend today.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant no. R0112436. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
The authors would like to thank Badí Israel Quinteros Espinoza for assistance in preliminary data organization and Dr. Jamie Jensen for assistance with statistical analysis.
