COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Chamber Service Project On July 12, the Lincoln Point shoreline area of Utah Lake was overgrown with weeds and willows, preventing access to what used to be a popular recreational area. The next day, all that changed. About 50 volunteers spent several hours on July 13 cleaning up the area, opening up trails and areas for fishing. They also picked up and hauled out a considerable amount of trash. It was all part of a service project organized by the Natural Resources Committee of the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce with assistance from the Utah Lake Commission. “We used clippers and went to town cleaning the old trails, and we created some mountains of brush clippings and tree clippings” that were later mulched by the county, said Eric Ellis, executive director of the Utah Lake Commission and a member of the Natural Resources Committee. Lincoln Point is located on the south end of Utah Lake in the Lake Shore area near Lake Mountain. Utah County acquired the property within the last two years. “It has a lot of cool history,” Ellis said of the area, which was once home to a variety of resort amenities. These included a marina, a couple of boat ramps and a jetty — all of which were overgrown. The volunteers focused their efforts on clearing out brush from these facilities and old trails in the area while also picking up garbage from about 15 acres of the point. “It was amazing to see how busy everybody was during that time, especially considering it was a hot July day,” Ellis said. Opening the area up will now allow local residents to more easily use it for recreational activities. Lincoln Point is beautiful, Ellis said, and offers great fishing and duck hunting. There’s even warm springs in the area that keep the water from freezing, allowing fishing throughout the year. “All year round, it will be a popular place, and the more we can do, the more accessible it becomes and the more people can come and enjoy it,”
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