Letter: Don’t let the Great Salt Lake get smaller

When my pioneer ancestors arrived here, one of their first impressions of the valley would have been the Great Salt Lake glittering in the middle of a harsh landscape.They might have even participated in the salty Fourth of July swim in 1851 or been among the hundreds that flocked to the lake for healing in the 1870s.With the lake’s importance to our history and lives, I wonder: Why are we still entertaining proposals for river diversions that would further lower lake levels?With Kevin Par