Earth Day Jordan River Trail Cleanup
Join with other groups to help clean up along the Jordan River. Click here for more details, and to register.
Join with other groups to help clean up along the Jordan River. Click here for more details, and to register.
Volunteer to help with the Wasatch Community Garden Spring Plant Sale. Click here for more information.
Click here for more information.
Held annually, the Wasatch Wildflower Festival is a multi-day event hosted at the four Cottonwood Canyons ski areas to celebrate the beauty and diversity of wildflowers in the Wasatch Mountains. The 2023 Festival will be held on the following dates and locations: July 8 (Brighton Ski Resort, in conjunction with the Brighton Institute’s Brighton Days), July 9 (Solitude Mountain Resort, and celebrating local artists), July 15 (Snowbird Ski Resort), and July 16 (Alta Ski Area). The Festival begins at 9 am each day, and the last guided walk leaves at 1 pm. The event is free, but registration is required. Registration will open in May. Click here for more information.
University of Utah Welcome Week Tabling Fair University of Utah 2023 “Welcome Week” happens the first week of the school year at the U. For LDSES, this is an opportunity to promote LDSES to new incoming students as well as those returning. We are planning an LDSES table at the Welcome Week Tabling Fair on the Union Plaza, August 21-25 daily from 10 AM to 2 PM. We are looking for volunteers that can support our table during this week. If you are a University of Utah alum or just interested in promoting our organization to students, we would love to have your support. You can contribute a couple of hours, a full 4 hour shift, or multiple days. Please email slc@ldsearthstewardship.org if you have availability
Salt Lake Area LDSES will team with the Provo Utah LDSES Chapter at Utah Valley University on September 8, 2023, to staff a table and share our Latter-day Saint Earth Stewardship mission and resources with attendees at this event. If you are interested in volunteering at our table, contact us at SLC@LDSEarthStewardship.org.
The annual International Coastal Cleanup Day at Great Salt Lake State Park is scheduled for Saturday, September 16 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Volunteers will remove trash from Great Salt Lake’s shores and tributaries to restore critical wildlife habitat and improve water quality. Please wear clothes you can get dirty, shoes appropriate for mud and sand, and pack a rain jacket. Gloves, trash bags, and other cleanup supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring any of your own supplies. Schedule: 9:00 am – 9:30 am: Meet at Great Salt Lake State Park 9:30 am-12:00 pm: Cleanup at designated sites This is a volunteer event where we are teaming with Friends of Great Salt Lake and Great Salt Lake Audubon. Please register for this event Here If you have additional questions or need transportation to this event, contact Shelly Parkin at shellyrn83@gmail.com
Rally to Save Our Great Salt Lake on Saturday, January 20th at 3 pm on the south steps of the Utah State Capitol. Many community service organizations will be supporting this event, sponsored by Save Our Great Salt Lake. @saveourgsl
Come “let your light shine” (Matthew 5:16) for Great Salt Lake during the 2024 Utah State Legislative Session! On Tuesday, January 23rd from 5 to 6 PM, LDSES will be keepers of the Great Salt Lake Vigil at the Capitol 2024, to celebrate and amplify awareness of our love for the Great Salt Lake. We will meet on the east steps of the Utah State Capitol at 5:00 PM and carry brine shrimp puppets (see pictured above), flocks of birds, and other lake species around the Capitol, walking clockwise until 6:00 PM. For those of you who have an LDSES bandana, be sure to wear it. This event is appropriate for adults and children. We encourage adults to bring kids and grandkids. We need many hearts and hands! Sign up here if you can support our group on January 23. Other groups will be hosting vigils daily throughout the legislative session, which ends on March 1st. If you are unable to participate in our January 23 vigil, we encourage you to support other 1-hour vigils that will be happening every morning and evening during January and February. Also, LDSES will be keepers of the February 14 vigil so watch your email for more on that as well. We will be glad to be with you on the steps!
On Wednesday, February 14th LDSES will be keepers of the Great Salt Lake Vigil at the Capitol 2024, to celebrate and amplify awareness of our love for the Great Salt Lake. We will be delivering a “Thank you for your work to save The Great Salt Lake!” valentines (shown above) to every House and Senate member, as well as to Governor Cox’s office. 4:30 PM: We’ll meet on the East steps of the Utah State Capitol and hand-deliver Valentines to Governor Cox’s office 5:00 – 6:00 PM We’ll meet on the east steps of the Utah State Capitol to carry brine shrimp puppets, flocks of birds, and other lake species around the Capitol, walking clockwise until 6:00 PM. For those of you with an LDSES bandana, be sure to wear it! Sign up here. This event is appropriate for adults and children. We encourage adults to bring kids and grandkids. We need many hearts and hands! Be sure to Like and Share our Instagram and Facebook Posts for this event.
The Stegner Center’s 29th annual symposium will focus on the challenge of transitioning to a carbon neutral energy system and related sustainability, environmental, and human health concerns. The symposium will address practical questions, like facility siting, supply chain adequacy, and permitting reform, as well as concerns about environmental justice, public participation and transparency, and implementing meaningful strategies to avoid, reduce and minimize impacts to communities and ecological resources. LDS Earth volunteers will support our table at this event. LDSES table volunteers will get free admission to both days of the event. For information on volunteering, contact us at slc@ldsearchstewardship.org.
Here’s a great Family Night opportunity. The Great Salt Lake Interfaith Action Coalition and Congregation Kol Ami have invited LDSES to attend a free screening of the award-winning 22-minute film “Whales of the High Desert.” If you are not familiar with the film, that started with the director looking to study the myth of whales in the Great Salt Lake, here is a nice story from the KSL News and a RadioWest podcast on the film. Register for this event here. Following the showing, the director of the film will be available for questions and discussion. Join us!!!