State leaders say they’re moving closer toward a goal of snapping up more land on the southeast side of the Great Salt Lake to help protect it from any further encroaching development.
They announced a new $2.5 million contribution from the Utah Inland Port Authority toward the effort on Wednesday, holding a news conference on the marshland property of a duck hunting club just a few miles from warehouses in the authority’s northwest quadrant in Salt Lake City.
“This funding gives the Department of Natural Resources another tool to support shoreline preservation,” Joel Ferry, commissioner for the Utah Department of Natural Resources, told reporters…