The gift has been months in the making, and represents the first major private sector commitment to saving the imperiled lake.
found the church owns at least 75,000 acre-feet outright in the Great Salt Lake watershed, but that does not include any shares it has in canal companies.Pioneers and farmers formed them by pooling their resources to dig canals so they could raise crops and build cities across arid Utah.
The church’s gift will also sustain critical shoreline and wetland habitat in Farmington Bay, according to DNR.
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