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Peggy Fletcher Stack and Leia Larsen
Salt Lake Tribune reporters
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Angel Moroni atop The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Bountiful Temple is shown in December 2022 with the shriveling Great Salt Lake in the background. A dying Great Salt Lake could make the historic home of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uninhabitable. What is the Utah-based faith doing to prevent it — and what do environmentalists think it should do?
How the LDS Church could prevent its headquarters from becoming a toxic wasteland
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Utah’s predominant faith has a huge stake — and could have a huge say — in the Great Salt Lake’s survival. It sounds like a plot from an apocalyptic movie. A beleaguered 19th-century band of spiritual...