Despite a warning from a leading Bonneville scientist that it might not work, the land-speed racers behind Save the Salt have opened talks with a local mining company to return as much as 12 million tons of salt to the Bonneville Salt Flats over the next decade.

“This conversation has never happened before,” said Louise Ann Noeth, a spokeswoman for the Save the Salt Alliance, one of the groups involved in the discussions. “Everybody for years has blamed the miners for the problems with the salt flats — there’s no question they’re taking the salt, but they’ve done so legally through the Bureau of Land Management — but we figured why not try to develop an atmosphere of trust between the two biggest users of the salt flats: the racers and the mining community.”

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