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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.

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

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.

LDSES will be promoting this Earth Day learning event, led by the ThinkAgain FaithAgain foundation.  Come hear from a veteran steward of Utah water sustainability on his extensive work for the environment.  Details on the location and registration for this event here.  You can attend in-person or via Zoom. Over history, including more recent local history, some rivers have dried up or been so over-used they no longer reach the ocean. We will explore the consequences not just to the environment but to humans when this happens. When we think of Earth Day, we often think of air and ocean pollution, growing garbage pits, recycling, the damage from mineral extraction, the harm done by our industrial food complex, etc. But we too often forget the lifeblood of most civilizations throughout all time—fresh water from rivers. The last several years Utahans have had a wake-up call with our shrinking Great Salt Lake. But those below Lake Powel and Mead are in peril of losing power as well as having enough water to drink for a growing population. And this our just our species’ concerns. What of all the others being affected? Richard will help us explore ways we can all use water more equitably for the benefit of all. Rich  Ingebretsen is the founder of the Glen Canyon Institute and is also the vice chair of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.  He founded Wilderness Medicine of Utah to teach back-country medicine and is the owner of River Bound Adventures an education river trip company. Rich graduated from the University of Utah with a master’s in physics and a PhD in Physics Education.  He received an MD degree from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1993.  He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in emergency medicine in Salt Lake City.  He is now a clinical instructor of medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine and a professor in the Department of Physics.  He is an attending emergency room physician and practices internal medicine.  He is the program director of the wilderness program at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is the medical director of Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue. He was the Associate Dean for Student Affairs for the College of Science in 2014 and 2015.