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Salt Lake City airport plans to sell nearly 1,000 acres of wetlands
Original: Salt Lake airport plans to sell nearly 1,000 acres of wetlands. Bird advocates worry about what could come next.
Salt Lake City International Airport intends to sell roughly 1,000 acres of wetlands it owns. Bird advocates and conservation groups are raising concerns that the sale could open the habitat to development and set a precedent for further disposal of ecologically sensitive land around the airport. The plan has drawn attention because the wetlands provide important stopover habitat for migratory birds along the Great Salt Lake ecosystem, which is already under severe water and environmental stress.
Why now: Concerns over wildlife habitat and development pressures around the shrinking Great Salt Lake ecosystem are making wetland land sales locally contentious
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- Salt Lake airport plans to sell nearly 1,000 acres of wetlands. Bird advocates worry about what could come next. · The Salt Lake Tribune
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