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.
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.
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.
“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.