The damage done to Utah Lake by dredging project would be on Utah taxpayers, writes Tara Bishop, a lifelong Orem resident and a Ph.D. ecosystem ecologist with expertise in how disturbance affects ecosystem structure and function.
Utah Lake, seen from Saratoga Springs on Tuesday, March 1, 2022.As a living body of water, Utah Lake has shown resiliency to human-perpetuated destruction. Though, as humans, to build resiliency we must first recognize the signs before we can take adequate corrective action.
Abusive interactions have warning signs such as demanding control, lack of communication, exclusion, dishonesty and coerced trust without reciprocation. Utah Lake, which influences the local climate and snowpack, deserves protection from abuse with careful separation of fact from fiction and a transparent trustworthy process before any action, legislative or private, takes place.
Questions were raised such as: How will the $6 billion-plus project be funded without more taxpayer money? What is their evidence that it would not cause irreparable damage? Who will own the islands and what will they even look like? Trust is an organic, moldable relationship that requires nurturing. Yet, what has LRS done to build trust with Utahns? In my experience thus far, little to none. For example, LRS demanded public trust by refusing to share its dredging
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