“There’s no question Utah Lake is a disaster right now. It’s our most underutilized asset. It’s our most underutilized resource. And every year we have major issues with Utah Lake.”
After neglecting it for decades, Utahns want to make Utah Lake great again, but are sharply divided over how or even what that means.
White settlement began there in April 1849 with the arrival of 30 families who took up farming along the Provo River. Among those first Latter-day Saints in Utah Valley, Holdaway acquired a large holding on the northeast shore of Utah Lake in what is now theThus began a profound reordering of Utah’s landscapes whose ramifications persist — for better or worse — to this day.
The lake was originally named for the Timpanogos band of the Shoshone who inhabited these lands at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, living in balance with the landscape for centuries. Settlers gradually, sometimes violently, pushed out the native inhabitants.
“Our people raised families around these waters. We laughed and played. We worked and toiled. We swam. We fished. We utilized the surrounding foliage to make the necessary tools and medicines,” Meyer said at last year’s. “Above all, we prayed. We held ceremonies. We danced, and we sang around the lake.”
The large Asian fish proliferated, displaced native fish that people actually did like to eat, and dominated the lake’s biomass. Even worse, carp root around on the lakebed in search of food, tearing out the aquatic vegetation that played such a vital role supporting native fish and aquatic invertebrates, explains Rushforth, who has spent 50 years studying the lake’s ecosystems.
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