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Jed Boal ReportingIf you want to paste a little piece of Utah on the next letter you post, you can pick from five new stamps with ties to our state. The US Postal Service has unveiled a new series of commemorative stamps depicting Wonders of America.
Several of our natural wonders made the final cut. The commemorative stamp series is called Wonders of America: Land of Superlatives. We're a nation fascinated with the fastest, the largest, the tallest. Well, this collection has all of that, including a few of Utah's greatest attractions.
Utah can't lay claim to the largest rodent, highest sea cliffs, or even the largest cliff dwelling, but it can claim the largest plant, the Quaking Aspen.
Ron Hubrich, United States Postal Service: "Four or five of the stamps out of 40 actually have ties to Utah."
This Aspen Grove in Fish Lake National Forest is the largest living organism known to man. The root system can produce a clone that appears to be an entire grove.
The US Postal service has released The Wonders of America: Land of Superlatives 39-cent stamps, billed as forty of the most remarkable places, structures, plants, and animals in America.
Ron Hubrich, United States Postal Service: "Collectors love to get new ideas and new stamps. I know we do programs to get kids involved in stamp collecting."
Utah offers the largest natural bridge, Rainbow Bridge of Southern Utah, 275 feet across and 290 feet tall. Also, the Largest Desert, the Great Basin, extends into our state. The Largest Mountain Chain, The Rockies, are prominent in several states, Utah among them. And the fastest bird, the Peregrine Falcon is no stranger to Utah; a couple of Peregrine regularly show up on Temple Square each year to nest and hatch their chicks.
Utah got another nod from the postal service recently with the release of the Bryce Canyon stamp.
Ron Hubrich: "They like to focus on the natural resources and the wonders of America, since this is the US Postal Service, an American institution."
Each year, the postal service gets thousands of suggestions for stamps from across the country; a citizens committee narrows down the ideas.
