The video "Utah Lake-Legacy" was produced for the June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program in 2005. It is an excellent resource to learn more about the history of Utah Lake, one of the largest freshwater lakes west of the Mississippi.
Stunning history. I love the approach to conservation that has been taken, it is not about excluding people, it is about caring reasonably. I do not live anywhere near Utah, but I will do my best to keep this in mind wherever I go. I hope there has been some positive growth in the June Sucker population and next time I am driving up the freeway heading north, I will be sure to stop through. Mistakes were made in history, I am grateful that people are working to correct those the best they can. Amazing state, I always love traveling through and never seem to stay long enough.
This lake is gross though... Also when it rains the neighbors' lands flood. It needs to be deeper and more clean. Probably making it deeper and removing its algae would help a ton with some of the problems
This lake is a cesspool. I'm blown away people will set foot in it. It's utterly destroyed now. I spent many days on that lake in the 80s and it was nasty then. It's 10x worse now.
@@utahlakeauthority I do hope it can somewhat recover, I just see nothing but growth around the lake, and the fact it's so warm and shallow with toxic algae blooms I don't see anything improving, but I hope I'm proven wrong. Thank you for your hard work either way.
@@hunternielson4187 yes, it is what's left of Bonneville, but so is every natural lake in the basin. When the native Americans were in that area, it was still pristine, with trout and other fish. Man has destroyed many a gem on this planet.
Every lake when it were just the natives was prestine! Nevermind utah lake is probably more shallow then any other left behind. I've been fishing that lake since the 80s only thing wrong with me is my belly glows at night. Keeps me from stubbing my pinky toe... Regardless there's only 2 types of people in this world... The ones who can't and the ones that will. We all play apart in the lakes future, which kinda person are you?
