coral pink sand dunes and pando the largest living organism in the world, am i right, representative stratten? [applause] >> the famed explorer, the people on tv have no idea what we're talking about right now, but that's okay. the famed explorer john wesley powell described his travels in utah thusly, past these towering monuments, these billowing orange sandstone, oak set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, these curves. we glide hour after hour as our attention is caught by wonder. the only thing weirder than that are the people who inhabit it. we have stranger spelled names for places and people. many of us have a grandfather, lavarre or lavon, but we have sadie and extra e's and i's, will nilly. and play by our fire with fireworks from wyoming and we build boxes to send astronauts in space and once they arrive they can actually look back to see the utah mines, which produce the copper needed to send them there. and to work in that mine and many others across the state, immigrants came from all over the world, including our greek-american friends who developed the incomparable pastrami