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‘Behind the Headlines’: Mormon church to split with Boy Scouts, lyme disease flares in Utah and invasive plants proliferate in SLC

CAMP STEINER A Boy Scout troop leader gets the attention of the boys at Scout Lake for an announcement prior to the "Battle of Scout Lake". The history of this venerable boy scout camp at 10,400 feet elevation at the top of the High Uintas. Camp Steiner features a number of old buildings, shelters and camps as well as a lake where scouts must swim and canoe in freezing water. Salt Lake Tribune photo / Scott Sommerdorf

  | May 10, 2018, 11:01 p.m.
| Updated: 11:31 p.m.

An invasive plant jumps from Salt Lake City gardens to the surrounding foothills. Deer ticks carrying lyme disease are more prevalent in Utah due to climate change. And after more than a century, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America announce a future split.

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