Volunteers plant 1,500 prickly pear cacti on a Salt Lake burn scar
Salt Lake City Public Lands, University of Utah volunteers, and a corrections greenhouse program are replanting the Bonneville Fire foothills to hold the slopes.
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Volunteers are putting 1,500 prickly pear cacti into the foothills above Salt Lake City where the Bonneville Fire burned. KSL reported that Salt Lake City Public Lands is leading the replanting with University of Utah volunteers and plants raised through a corrections greenhouse program. The cacti are meant to hold soil on the slopes and to feed pollinators and elk.
Rain on bare ground can wash a burn scar downhill. Prickly pear is one plant the crews are using to knit that slope back together. This is a planting of 1,500 cacti, not a claim that the whole fire area has recovered. The work is underway in the city's foothills.
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