Carol Judd , Vernal Utah Real Estate

On October 22, 2008 a plan was announced to include over 190 million acres of Federal land in 12 Western States including Utah available for development of geothermal energy resources, This initiative could increase electric generation capacity from geothermal resources more than ten times.

90 percent fo our nations geothermal resources are found on Federal lands and the clean energy is needed for our homes and businesses.

The total eventual supply will be enough to power more than 12 million homes.

Geothermal leasing revenues and royalties are allocated with 50 percent going to the State, 25 percent to the county and 25 percent to the Geothermal Royalty Fund of the Bureau of Land Management for further geothermal planning.

Some lands are closed to geothermal leasing and will remain so. One example is Yellowstone National Park

The final version of a plan will be in the Federal Register on Friday, October 24, 2008 and available at

http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/geothermal/geothermal_nationwide/Documents/Final_PEIS.html

There are 29 geothermal power plants currently operating on Bureau of Land Management lands in California, Nevada and Utah. The generating capacity is enough to supply the needs for 1.2 million homes.

Vernal, Utah's Real Estate Market is busy and postive. We look to all new developments to keep our area growing and vital.

Last weekends adventure was looking for Garnets up near the Red Creek by Browns Park, Utah. We traveled a couple hours to get there.

As soon as we started to head out from the car to start searching one of the guys in our group looked down and there at the beginning was a beauty of a Garnet. It was the find of the day! We found some wonderful smaller Garnets and took some home to uncover that are still in their matrix or surrounding material.

We hope to get up there again this season before the cold weather makes it too difficult.

We took a short afternoon trip North of Vernal, Utah last week to enjoy the fall colors and were not disappointed. I love the light thru the leaves and especially the orange and red hues.

The contrast against the dark evergreen trees brought out the colors.

This area is on one of the Scenic Byway Routes.

I hope you are enjoying the beauty of the change of seasons where your are. Take a drive and get away from the hassles.

Vernal, Utah is growing and experiencing a good market. Buyers are coming in and calling to find homes.

We have the energy business here and all the reports I read speak of nothing but progress and expansion plans.

We have new construction for business' and the new college campus taking shape. Everything is busy and I am optimistic.

If we can keep the loans coming for our good buyers and enough affordable houses for them to choose from we will be doing great.

We made a visit to the Colton Draw Guard Station in the Ashley National Forest where the house is rented out to vacationers. It has not been used as a Guard Station for a long time. It is north of Vernal on our beautiful mountains.

It is a nice house with running hot water, toilet, stove and beds. We had a wonderful time. It was a fun adventure and I am we will do it again.sure