300万美元捐款清除大盐湖芦苇：耶稣基督后期圣徒教会向犹他州捐款，加速清除耗水量两倍于原生植物的入侵物种
犹他州盐湖县盐湖城消息：耶稣基督后期圣徒教会10月29日承诺向犹他州大盐湖专员办公室捐款300万美元，加速清除环绕大盐湖的耗水入侵植物芦苇（phragmites）。这笔资金将用于栖息地修复、保护脆弱的湖岸湿地，并帮助维持流入湖泊的天然水量。
州长 Spencer J. Cox 表示，大盐湖对犹他州的环境、经济与生活质量至关重要，保护它需要个人、机构与产业共同努力；他感谢教会的慷慨捐助，并指出清除芦苇直接扩大了州政府的治理规模，这种入侵植物的耗水量是原生植物的两倍，还会堵塞湿地、毁坏数百万只候鸟的关键栖息地。
芦苇（学名 Phragmites australis）是一种侵略性外来芦苇，可成片长至15英尺高，每年消耗数千英亩英尺的水，毁坏候鸟栖息地，带来显著的野火风险，并阻挡水流进入湖泊。
大盐湖专员 Hannah Freeze 表示，芦苇对大盐湖的水文有重大影响，这笔捐款让治理工作可以延续既定的处理时程，并与季节性生态窗口配合，进行多阶段治理、机械清地与长期的湖岸修复。
治理工作由大盐湖专员办公室监督，具体由犹他州自然资源厅下属多个部门协同执行，包括林业、消防与州土地局，野生动物资源局，水权局与水资源局，并与地方水禽管理机构及保育团体协调。
大盐湖专员办公室由犹他州议会于2023年设立，负责制定并维护大盐湖战略计划，协调各机构与相关方围绕湖泊开展的工作。教会方面在其关于区域干旱与大盐湖的声明中确认了这笔2026年的300万美元捐款，并称清除芦苇预计可节省数千英亩英尺的水；教会此前还向大盐湖捐赠并出租了近3万英亩英尺的水资源。
来源：犹他州州长办公室新闻稿（EIN Presswire 发布），2026年10月29日
$3 Million Donation to Clear Great Salt Lake Phragmites: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gives to Utah to Speed Removal of an Invader That Drinks Twice the Water of Native Plants
SALT LAKE CITY, Salt Lake County, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 29 committed $3 million to the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner to accelerate the removal of water-intensive invasive phragmites that surround the Great Salt Lake. The funding will bolster critical habitat restoration, protect vulnerable shoreline wetlands and help sustain natural water inflows into the lake.
Governor Spencer J. Cox said the Great Salt Lake is fundamental to Utah's environment, economy and quality of life, and that protecting it will take individuals, institutions and industry working together. He thanked the Church for the contribution, noting that it directly expands the state's efforts to remove invasive phragmites, which consume twice as much water as native plants, choke out wetlands and degrade critical habitat for millions of migratory birds.
Phragmites (Phragmites australis) is an aggressive, non-native reed that grows in dense stands up to 15 feet tall. It consumes several thousand acre-feet of water each year, degrades vital habitat for millions of migratory birds, poses a significant wildfire risk and prevents water from reaching the lake.
Great Salt Lake Commissioner Hannah Freeze said phragmites has a significant impact on the hydrology of the Great Salt Lake, and that the donation allows the state to continue vital treatment schedules and align them with seasonal ecological windows for multi-phase mitigation, mechanical land clearing and long-term shoreline restoration.
The mitigation work will be overseen by the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner and managed across multiple divisions within the Department of Natural Resources, including Forestry, Fire and State Lands; Wildlife Resources; Water Rights; and Water Resources, in coordination with local waterfowl management entities and conservation groups.
The Utah Legislature created the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner in 2023; the commissioner is tasked with developing and maintaining a strategic plan and coordinating collaborative work among all agencies and interests in relation to the lake. In its statement on regional drought and the Great Salt Lake, the Church confirmed the 2026 donation of $3 million to support the state's phragmites control work, estimated to save thousands of acre-feet of water, alongside its donation and lease of nearly 30,000 acre-feet of water to the lake.
Source: Utah Governor's Office release via EIN Presswire, October 29, 2026
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图片来源：图：犹他州Magna附近的大盐湖湖岸。照片：Hermann Luyken，CC0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / The shore of the Great Salt Lake near Magna, Utah. Photo: Hermann Luyken, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
