01-09-2023, 02:39 PM
(01-09-2023, 04:36 AM)SkunkedAgain Wrote: Sorry I totally disagree with your save the salt lake, there are so many holes in their argument that are totally angled to their agenda to save their mineral, brine shrimp or skiing business. I don’t blame them, but painting the farmers as the big culprit is ridiculous. Do you know how many acres that used to be farmed are all urban communities now? You claim that the brine fly and shrimp make up 100% of the birds diet, I’m pretty sure there are many of those bird species that are in other flyway areas that eat something besides brine flies or shrimp. You claim that the ski resorts will be ruined with the lack of lake effect snow, yet KSL just published an article last week that showed 3 of the top five snow falls at ski resorts were in Cottonwood Canyon. You claim the increased dust will ruin everyone’s health, yet I’m pretty sure the area of non lake bed desert is many many times greater than the exposed lake bed. So restoring the lake will do little to make a difference in dust. Pretty sure it will be a very small difference if the numbers aren’t scewed to prove a point there will be little difference. Not sure what their agenda is other than taking from the legal rights folks to serve their agenda. And before you try the angle of the farmers don’t deserve all that water remember that property rights is what has made America great, here you have the right to own property and you can make of it what you choose. So far we can be free and not have the King take our property out of jealousy or greed. So before you push to have government stealing private property think long and hard about what you’re advocating. Just my take as a farmer.
Oh and one other point to consider farmers are doing what we can to save water, our canal company took steps to pressurize our system which has saved about 2/3 of the water we used to use. This has caused our water bill to go from $25 a share to $130 per acre foot of water. Which the farmers are footing the cost, perhaps your water hungry save the GSL should put your money where the whining is and help pay our higher costs. All I’m saying is get off the picking on the alfalfa growers, we have the right to the water and to make a living, we are conservation minded since the steps we have taken to save water has resulted in power bills that make wasting water very unprofitable. The weather pattern will change and before long you will be wanting to start the pumps again. Just the way the cycles go. Have a little patience things will change soon.
Plus 1, exactly what most of us think about this situation. Remember folks long before there was a GSL there was Lake Bonneville, that's where the salt flats came from, same thing as the GSL, if we were going to die as a result of the GSL going dry, I think we would be dead already. Our earth goes in cycles, things will change the other way but just because it doesn't happen when we want doesn't mean much.