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Utah Lake Authority unveils multi-year push to extend invasive-plant removal into tributaries
Summary
Utah Lake Authority executive director Luke Peterson outlined a 5'6-year plan to build on recent phragmites reductions by expanding treatments up tributaries and tackling woody invasives such as Russian olive and tamarisk; funding and cross-jurisdictional coordination remain key challenges.
Luke Peterson, executive director of the Utah Lake Authority, on the symposium stage announced a multi-year plan to extend invasive-plant removal beyond the lake's shoreline and into upstream tributaries. Peterson said the Authority will continue shore treatments while ramping work in canals, streams and creeks to reduce reseeding and improve system-wide flows.
"Utah Lake is the healthiest it's been in a century," Peterson said, and he described the proposed effort as a way to "capitalize on that momentum" by attacking sources of reinfestation upstream. He credited…
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