The final blow for our beloved landscape of Hansel Valley came with news of a fast-tracked 40,000-acre industrial AI park to be built in the very heart of a place that had become a part of me. The Boxelder County Commission had been given but two weeks by the State of Utah to give final approval. Our good governor assured us that we were no longer safe in our own land and this was good for our military preparedness. It would also bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the state and use twice as much power as the entire state’s current use. We would be in the industrial, Make America Great Again, big leagues. Hurry was necessary. Time is money. No time to lose. A non-elected paramilitary/governmental shell agency called MIDA was brokering the deal. No mention was made of the effort to protect the Great Salt Lake from drying up and perhaps making northern Utah uninhabitable. Pathetic an effort as it might be, it seemed that I owed the land at least the presence of one more body in protest of this very insidious plan. More
