Lark Interview Project.

Lark, Utah, was a small mining town next to the Oquirrh Mountains (which run along the west side of the Salt Lake Valley). The earliest settlers of Lark chose the area specifically for its timber, and a saw mill was constructed nearby at the mouth of Bingham Canyon. In December 1977, the residents were notified that Lark had been purchased by the Kennecott Copper Corporation and they had to leave, as Kennecott intended to use the area as a dump for large quanities of overburden from the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine. Many of the town's 591 residents were Hispanic at the time of the purchase.

Paul Ganster was the director of the Lark Interview Project in 1978, at which time he taught at Utah State University. Ganster went on to serve as the director of the Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias and the associate director of International Programs at San Diego State University.