Founded, in part, by the Mormon Church in 1893, the first Pavilion was intended as a Western counterpart to Coney Island and for a time was the most popular destination west of New York. Several versions of the pavilion have been developed and destroyed over the years. When I made this photograph, the area was still recovering from what is called The Great Flood of 1983. Forty years later, the region experienced another damaging- weather disaster caused by sudden snow melt, flooding and landslides. Climate change predictions indicate more intense storms for this region. As a result of rapid population growth in central Utah, people will need to adapt to the changing weather. The writer Wallace Stegner wrote in The American West As Living Space The American West is a region of extraordinary variety within its abiding unity, and of an iron immutability beneath its surface of change. The most splendid part of the American habitat, it is also the most fragile. It has been misinterpreted and mistreated because, coming to it from earlier frontiers where conditions were not unlike those of northern Europe, we found it different, daunting, exhilarating, dangerous, and unpredictable, and we entered it carrying habits that were often inappropriate, and expectations that were surely excessive.