This piece was an interesting piece for me. Utah is really, truly a different landscape. It basically talked about the Mormon landscape and how they shaped Utah. The human landscapes are composed of elements like ethnic buildings and culture. The Mormons had a certain way of living; in small agricultural towns for solely communication purposes. They adapted their township and range on a grid iron town plan different from other U.S. cities. The landscape consisted of brick and stone houses, irrigation ditches, and hay derricks. One thought that comes to my mind when reading this piece is the famous J.B. Jackson and his studies on vernacular landscape. Has J.B. Jackson done research on Utah vernacular landscape? Carter talks about other works of studying the landscape in Utah, but even that's not enough because there are still other landscapes out there left to research. More field studies need to be accomplished for further research. For example, studies never were conducted on the contemporary Mormon home. Maybe this should be further study for J.B. Jackson since he is a vernacular landscape guru.
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