‘Sustainable growth is an oxymoron’ — a look at Utah’s vanishing open spaces
Earth Day reckoning: More than 700 square miles of “earth” have vanished between 1982 and 2017. That’s roughly seven times the size of Salt Lake City.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The view to the east along Highway 111 in on the western side of the Salt Lake Valley, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Utah has lost more than 700 square miles of open space between 1982 and 2017.