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Alta Wildflower Festival and Naturalist Talk

Lower Albion Meadows Interpretive Trail Alta, UT, United States

  Join us on July 27 in Little Cottonwood Canyon to enjoy time with like-minded earth stewards in the beauty of our natural world. We’ll meet at the Alta Ski Resort Albion Base parking lot at 5:30 and walk the Lower Albion Meadows Trail with a trained naturalist sharing insights about the canyon’s flowers, plants, and geology.     Following the nature trail walk, we’ll migrate to the Tanner Flats Campground to meet at 7:00 PM for a bonfire, bring-your-own-dinner (you are welcome to cook on the open fire), Smores and watermelon provided LDSES, and conversation with peers and our trail naturalist. This will be a fun and informative event for people of all ages so we encourage families to attend.  You are welcome to join us for the naturalist walk, the dinner and bonfire, or both.  Please register here if you plan to join us.

RESTORE 2024 A Faith Matters Gathering – LDSES Tabling

Mountain America Expo Center 9575 S State Street, Sandy, UT, United States

    We will be staffing a table at the 2024 Restore Conference to promote awareness of LDSES.  Volunteers are needed!   We have a “first-come-first-served” limited number of complimentary passes to those staffing our table at the event.  Email us at SLC@ldsearthstewardship.org if you can support our tabling. As an event sponsor, we invite all LDSES members to utilize our 20% off discount code to register for Restore.  Go to the Restore Event Registration page and use the discount code LDSES.

Great Salt Lake – International Coastal Cleanup Day Service Project

Great Salt Lake State Park

  LDSES is supporting Friends of Great Salt Lake with volunteers for this activity.  If you were rained out of our LDSES Earth Day activity at Great Salt Lake earlier this year, please join us for this one! You can register for this event here.

National Public Lands Day Naturalist Talk and Canyon Cleanup

Silver Lake in Big Cottonwood Canyon

  Our National Public Lands Day project is at Silver Lake in Big Cottonwood Canyon.  We will be preparing soil, laying veg matting, and planting native plant seed! You can park in the Brighton Store parking lot across the street from the Visitor Center, or in the Visitor Center lot.  We will meet with the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation project leaders in the picnic area of the Visitor Center at 8:30 am (there is construction in the canyon so plan for delays).  We will provide breakfast!  Upon arrival, we will complete waivers, give a safety talk, and break into working groups. Families are welcome, but children must be supervised by an adult.  Long pants, long sleeves, closed-toed sturdy shoes, and layers are required (in case of inclement weather).  Please bring water and sun protection (screen, glasses, hat).  Bring work gloves, if you have them. Please bring a shovel or grass rake if you have one. We will provide additional gloves and tools. Please register here so that we can arrange for your food and equipment. Contact us at slc@ldsearthstewardship.org if you have questions. For details and updates, you can see our Facebook Events page or website calendar.

Conservative Climate Summit 2024

Utah Valley University Sorenson Student Center 800 WEST UNIVERSITY PARKWAY, Orem, UT, United States

Join us at Utah Valley University on Friday, October 7 to table at this event!  House Member John Curtis (R-UT) leads this event that includes elected officials from across the U.S.  Katharine Heyhoe, the Chief Scientist at the Nature Conservancy and professor of climate science at Texas Tech University will be the featured speaker this year.  (you may recall that Katharine was the keynote speaker at the LDSES Fall Forum a couple of years ago) If you can volunteer to support our table at this event, please contact Mike Maxwell at mike@ldsearthstewardship.org.  You can register for a table shift here.  For more details on this event, see our Facebook Events page or website calendar.  

LDSES Global Fall Forum

Clarke Building at Utah Valley University

“This Beautiful World: Preserving our Planet for Future Generations” November 2, 2024 in the Fulton Library at Utah Valley University The LDSES Fall Forum is an annual, in-person event that promotes and celebrates environmental stewardship and allows others a chance to meet with fellow earth-minded Latter-day Saints. The theme of this year’s event is “This Beautiful World: Preserving our Planet for Future Generations”. Get free tickets here Doors open at 5pm, program starts at 6pm. Please reserve your spot by getting a free ticket (unticketed guests will be admitted if there is room.) Information about parking and exact room locations will be sent out to ticketed guests prior to the event.  This year the Fall Forum will be in the Clarke Building, rooms 510-511, at Utah Valley University. Our keynote speaker is Larry Echo Hawk, Emeritus General Authority Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and advocate for earth stewardship. Elder Echohawk has unique experience and background as a member of the Pawnee nation, the former Idaho state attorney general, and the former assistant secretary for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior. In conjunction with our program, we will also be hosting an art show, which includes a special children’s division. The theme of the Forum, “In This Beautiful World”, is derived from the LDS Primary song “My Heavenly Father Loves Me” which says, “I’m so glad that I live in this beautiful world Heavenly Father created for me.” Protecting the Earth for future generations is critical and as Elder Patrick Kearon recently said, “we will do better as we think of the future for our children and grandchildren. We will do what is best for us but also what will be best for them and their children.” We want to specifically showcase the creativity of children and what earth stewardship means to them as we look forward with faith.

Great Salt Lake Film Screening

Cathedral of the Madeleine 331 E. South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah

  Join us at the historic Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City for a screening of two films, including “Listen to their Voices,” Directed by Gabe Brown of our LDSES SLC Chapter, and “The Last Resort,” directed by Michael Fleischner. Following the film screening, we will host a forum featuring both directors to discuss their filmmaking and take questions. This will be a fun and informative evening for all! Drinks and snacks will be served!

Wallace Stegner Center 30th Annual Symposium – Breathing Easier: Air Pollution Challenges and Solutions

S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH 383 SOUTH UNIVERSITY STREET, SALT LAKE CITY, UT, United States

  The 2025 symposium will consider air pollution’s environmental and human health tolls—including the unequal burdens air pollution places on disadvantaged communities. Despite gains in many places, air pollution remains a vexing problem across the nation. In Utah, winters bring inversions and particulate matter pollution, and summers deliver increased ground-level ozone pollution. The Wasatch Front regularly exceeds national ambient air quality standards, exacerbated by the region’s unique geography and meteorology.   Finding solutions to these thorny problems becomes only more vital with each passing year. Emerging threats like dust from the shrinking Great Salt Lake and intensifying wildfire smoke further compound longstanding air pollution problems. Experts will share potential solutions, including those that have found success in other parts of the country.   LDSES will be tabling at this event.  Those supporting tabling get free admission to this event.  Please e-mail us at slc@ldsearthstewardship.org to volunteer.