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Letter: Will our grandchildren thank us for a bike track or for preserving nature?

(Brian Maffly | The Salt Lake Tribune) Birders Heather Dove spot a black-headed grosbeak at Olympus Hills Park in Holladay, where Salt Lake County officials are considering a proposed bike play area.

In looking at the battle between keeping Olympus Hills Park a bird sanctuary, or putting in a mountain bike track, I like to think of what our descendants who will inherit this area, will think.

A hundred years from now, if the bike track gets put in, how many of them will say, “Thank goodness our forefathers (and mothers) had the foresight and wisdom to put in this old track”?

If the area remains wild, how many of them will say, “Thank goodness our forefathers had the wisdom and foresight to keep this tiny area unspoiled as a nature preserve”?

Which do you think is more likely?

Gordon Johnston, West Valley City

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