Carter Moore: Start by protecting the ugly places

The massive lake had just appeared on the horizon. After trekking for days through the arid mountains of Utah, any amount of water was surely a pleasant surprise to the Latter-day Saint pioneers in 1847. Brigham Young famously stopped the party, made camp on the foot of the Wasatch Mountains in view of the lake and declared, “This is the place.”I guess he hadn’t smelled it yet.The smell hits you first. It’s rank — decaying and unbearable. Walking across the dry, pee