Will strategic forest thinning help save the Great Salt Lake?

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Will strategic forest thinning help save the Great Salt Lake?
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The Forest Service hopes that cutting down trees will improve the water quality in the canyons' runoff, but some scientists don’t believe it is the full solution to help the Great Salt Lake’s levels rise. JennaBreeTV

In a Salt Lake County Council meeting Wednesday, District Ranger Bekee Hotze told council members about the millions of federal dollars going toward Salt Lake’s watershed all across the Wasatch.

The Forest Service hopes that cutting down trees will improve the water quality in the canyons' runoff, but scientists like Ben Abbott, a Professor of Ecosystem Ecology at Brigham Young University, don’t believe this is the full solution to helping the Great Salt Lake’s levels rise. Removing trees might reduce our water quantity, but still, Abbott doesn’t think cloud seeding, making islands or piping in Pacific Ocean water are the right solutions.

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