"Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve, formerly called Layton Wetlands Preserve, is the Conservancy’s first preserve in Utah. The preserve is part of a spectacular complex of wetlands, where fresh water meets the salty lake. Black Island Farms is adjacent to the Shorelands Preserve.
The Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve is a unique system of salt and fresh water marshes, ponds, pools, sloughs and mudflats. It is a rich feeding ground for tens of thousands of migrating birds, which use the Great Salt Lake as a resting point on their journeys from Canada to points in Central and South America. In fact, some of the largest gatherings of wildlife ever recorded on the Great Salt Lake have been observed here.
Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve is the lake’s largest nesting area for white-faced ibis. The preserve is also home to a large concentration of snowy plovers, American avocets and black-necked stilts, which nest along the shorelines on saline flats and in bulrush marshes. Large numbers of waterfowl including redhead, cinnamon teal, mallard and gadwall are reared along the lake’s shores."
In 2000, Black Island Farms sold a conservation easement on 40 acres adjacent to the Great Salt Lake Shore Land Preserve to the Nature Conservancy. This 40 acres of good farm land is now a part of the preserve. It is 40 acres of upland to enhance the wet lands. This 40 acres will be permantly farmed open space.
Visit the Nature Conservancy website for more information.