FIrst day of vacation: Bountiful Lake

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Yesterday we found a pretty area to walk around that turned out to be a water-filled clay pit between the town landfill and sewerage areas. This dragonfly hunts at Bountiful Lake, a man-made body of water in Bountiful Utah, just a few miles north of Salt Lake City. Town engineers four years ago decided to solve a runoff problem by diverting two creeks into a clay pit.



There were many familiar living things there, looking especially lovely in the landscape. I suspect this curly dock's bright color comes from the salty soil.


This killdeer was making a lot of noise in a grassy field. A dog spooked it over to the parking area.


I thought Alexis would appreciate this dilapidated farm.


Teasel.


A small flock of domestic geese have adopted the lake.

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

the dragonfly and goose pictures are so awesome! thank you for the falling-down farm, i do appreciate it.

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

I go through Bountiful all the time when I drive between Salt Lake and my former home of Logan, have friends I visit on occasion there, and for all the years I've done the drive I never knew the story of Bountiful Lake! Lovely pics, thanks!

This has to be one of the few environmentally-friendly projects in Northern Utah, such a great idea. So much controversy and anger over one particularly big project, the Legacy Highway project, which cuts through and disturbs the Great Salt Lake's wetlands. Something I was personally opposed to, as was many others, but like most of our local environmental concerns, they were ignored by our redneck and money-hungry government. Sigh.