Andrew Chin: “I know no better way to pay homage to a land as sacred as this than by designating it as Great Salt Lake National Park for the world to appreciate and enjoy.”
The shore of the Great Salt Lake on Stansbury Island on Saturday, March 26, 2022.My first memory of the Great Salt Lake came from the vantage point of a Delta Airlines Boeing 767. As the plane flew over the sun-lit water, dawn barely breaking over the waves, what seemed like every passenger marveled out the window at a hauntingly beautiful landscape. Colors from the myriad of algae, lake water, sand bars and even the snow-capped mountains seemed to dance with the rhythm of a Romantic era waltz.
I was born in Singapore, then lived in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, then Honolulu. As someone surrounded by nature my entire life, when I learned of the ongoing project to save the Great Salt Lake, I was brought immediately back to my roots as a kid. Growing up in Hawaii, I lived in the backyard of the famed Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park. As I would climb and walk the slopes of those hulking giants, I could almost hear the jagged lava rocks singing their song to me.
It amazes me that national park recognition is on the table for a site so close to home. How blessed we are as Utahns to live in the shadow of such a marvelous wonder as the Great Salt Lake. Let us band together as Utahns and as citizens of this state and planet to give this lake the due it deserves.
In a guest commentary for The Salt Lake Tribune, BYU student Andrew Chin writes that we must “band together as Utahns and as citizens of this state and planet to give the Great Salt Lake the due it deserves.”is a BYU Communications undergraduate, and a member of the Men’s Golf Team. Since January 2023, he has collaborated on research and a project undertaken by various BYU departments on a proposal to designate the Great Salt Lake as a national park.
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