Show 1S1 profitably have not been very successful However the future may see the development of this industry Primary interest in the minor islands of the lake has centered chiefly about the numerous wild waterfowl that nest there every summer According to Dr William H Behla who studies of the lake birds than anyone else in recent years some 80000 gulls 10600 pelicans 96 I were cormorants 100 This herons and breeding there in 1932 number has varied slightly since then but represents the approximate number of birds on the lake islands for the past has made more thorough several decades interested in the lake as a home of the sea gull This bird is now protected by law because of the part it played in destroying crickets and grasshoppers that threatened to destroy crops in the Salt Lake Utahns have always been valley during the summer of 1848 the year after the coming of the Mormons to Utah Pood supplies were extremely low the very lives of the settlers depended on bounteous harvests from grains planted after that first winter on the and shores of the lake Furthermore thousands of new settlers the way from various parts of eastern United States and Europe to join their fellow believers on the western slopes of the Wasatch Failure of crops this year were then on 33 1 W H Behle ’Bird Colonies of the Great Salt Lake |