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Keynote warns against large-scale engineering: 'conserve first' for Utah Lake recovery, cites June Sucker progress and new coalition
Summary
Dr. Ben Abbott told attendees that Utah Lake should be managed with conservation first, warned that past interventions (including 1960s hexadecanol trials) caused fish kills, and highlighted recent organizing (Great Salt Lake Rising) and June Sucker recovery progress.
Dr. Ben Abbott, a global ecologist at Brigham Young University, told attendees at an event focused on Utah Lake that conservation and preventative measures should come before heavy engineering when restoring the lake.
Abbott said Utah Lake provides extensive ecosystem services and cautioned that large interventions carry risk. He recounted a historical attempt in the 1960s to spread hexadecanol on the lake to reduce evaporation, which he said “ended up causing massive fish kills” and harmed the June Sucker…
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