

The glistening white terrain of the Bonneville Salt Flats, a remnant of a prehistoric lakebed that is one of the American West's many other-worldly landscapes, serves as a racetrack for land speed world records and backdrop for movies like "Independence Day" and "The World's Fastest Indian."īut it's growing thinner and thinner as those who cherish it clamor for changes to save it.

It's so flat that on certain days, visitors swear they can see the curvature of the earth. In the Utah desert, a treeless expanse of pristine white salt crystals has long lured daredevil speed racers, filmmakers and social media-obsessed tourists. Jeremiah Bernau The race to save Bonneville Salt Flats.
