If you google "Bonneville Salt Flats", Wikipedia(I think this is how it is spelled), this is a quote from the BLM regarding the salt flats:
"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has undertaken numerous studies of the salt crust thickness within the Bonneville Salt Flats and ultimately concluded in a 2006 study that there was virtually no difference in the salt crust thickness from 1988 to 2003. Specifically, the BLM concluded “despite brine withdrawal for mineral production, neither short nor long-term measurable changes in salt crust thickness could be documented.” Analysis of Recent and Historical Salt-Crust Thickness Measurements and Assessment of their Relationship to the Salt Laydown Project, Bonneville Salt Flats, Toole County, Utah, W.W. White III & Moises Terrazas (2006), at 29. The BLM further concluded that earlier salt crust measurement studies showing salt crust deterioration were seriously flawed. Id. at 28."
It further states, "Despite this, since 1998, the owners of the Wendover potash facility have worked diligently in conjunction with the BLM to undertake the Salt Laydown Project under which solid salt from ponds located south of highway I-80 is dissolved and pumped on to the Bonneville Salt Flats north of I-80. During the following summer months, heat from the sun evaporates the water and the precipitated salt becomes part of the race track surface. Since the onset of this project, more than 10.7 million tons of salt have been pumped on to the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Salt Laydown Project is now a required element of the facility’s operating plan."
I think this statement is where an injunction order could be obtained to prove this statement is in fact false.
I'll say another thing - If this was a stand of red wood trees, once gone could never be replaced, do you thing the BLM could get by with allowing someone to cut them down for profit?
John Weatherwax
