Winter sunlight glimmers over a sprawling Utah Lake as volunteers from the BYU Environmental Science Club (pictured) make space for native cottonwood trees along the Provo River Delta, weeding out invasive tamarisks.
Utah Lake has faced many challenges: depleting water levels, algal blooms, and endangered species. But community members, including BYU student volunteers and faculty researchers, have contributed to the lake’s steady revival.
Tyler Lenning (’24), an environmental-science student, says science taught in classrooms and alongside the lake can be used to “interact with politicians, with local farmers. . . . With those groups, we can actually make some sort of change.”
Listen to BYUradio’s Constant Wonder episode about BYU efforts at Utah Lake.
