Utah Power employees will join Salt Lake Birders Association and Cub Scout Pack 3794 in doing landscape work Saturday, May 6, on a new exhibit at Tracy Aviary in Liberty Park.
Known as Green Corps, the Utah Power program will provide $700 for the project, one of 30 involving a partnership between the utility company's employees and communities where they live and work. The groups also worked at the aviary April 29.Featuring small, friendly parrots called lories, the new aviary exhibit will include a large walk-in enclosure where visitors may enter and hand-feed the birds.
Utah Power general business manager John Bryner said the company has a tradition of supporting sound stewardship over the environment and providing supporting community support. Green Corps is another way Utah Power can further those efforts, he said.
More than $100,000 and countless hours of employee volunteer time have gone into 60 Green Corps projects since the program began two years ago. Employees nominate projects, which are selected on the basis of three criteria: consistent with the company's environmental goals, community involvement and broad employee participation.
Utah Power's environmental goal focuses on energy efficiency, conservation, renewable resources such as solar and wind power sources and clean air issues.