“As a record snow year melts into the expanding Wasatch Front, we are quick to believe that our prayers for water have been heard, pushing us dangerously towards inaction,” writes John Dreyfous.
The shore of the Great Salt Lake at Stansbury Island on Saturday, March 26, 2022.Returning home, I feel my roots, strengthened by five generations before me, dig deep into the land we have all called home. Without the looming pressure of a return to school in the East, having just graduated from Middlebury College, I am soothed by my first sight of the Uinta Mountains, still battered in the snow of last winter.
As I waited impatiently watching gray clouds over Vermont’s Green Mountains, storms in my western homelands — stuck in the valleys of 12,000-foot peaks — slowly produced the lifeline for the desert below. Feet of snow buried the Uinta mountains and waited for the spring thaw. As always, much of this water comes together to form the Weber, Jordan and Bear River. But, unlike most of the waters west of the continental divide, it never reaches the Colorado River, let alone the Gulf of California. It slowly makes its way from glacier cut canyons to dug out reservoirs, reaching the bottom and continuing downstream. It lurches forward through canals and ditches, lakes and back eddies, sprinklers and toilets, until reaching its final destination. There is no more downstream.
Flats of salt extend miles beyond the lake’s shores glowing an incandescent white under the sun’s rays. After each rain, the flats reflect the arid world with immaculate precision. A herd of bison roam Antelope Island, the lake’s largest island. As the days warm, thick clouds of brine flies murmur like starlings, and the stiff smell of sulfur radiates off the mineral-rich lake.
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