Letter: Protect the birds

Years ago I walked a section of the Great Salt Lake’s south shore many times, participating in a five-summer shorebird survey conducted by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. I was captivated by the lake and its surrounding habitat in early morning light, as well as sightings of snowy plovers (status: highly imperiled) on the mudflats, and long-billed curlew and burrowing owls in the playas, wetlands and upland habitats.Now the Utah inland port is being built on 16,000 acres of Great