Mariah Maynes
Great Salt Lake Collaborative Freelancer
Brine flies on the shore of Great Salt Lake on Aug. 14, 2024. Westminster University's Great Salt Lake Institute has been granted $50,000 for brine fly research. (Mariah Maynes/KSL NewsRadio)
Brine flies on the shore of Great Salt Lake on Aug. 14, 2024. Westminster University's Great Salt Lake Institute has been granted $50,000 for brine fly research. (Mariah Maynes/KSL NewsRadio)
SALT LAKE CITY— Westminster University’s Great Salt Lake Institute is a recipient of a year-long grant from Northrop Grumman . The money will go toward brine fly research. Great Salt Lake Institute’s...
(Ben B. Braun/Deseret News)
(Ben B. Braun/Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — The Bureau of Land Management’s Salt Lake field office recently conducted work to diminish the impacts of Phragmites australis, an invasive species near Great Salt Lake. In a recent F...
(Utah Division of Wildlife Resources)
(Utah Division of Wildlife Resources)
SALT LAKE CITY — As warmer weather approaches, migrating swans will pass through Utah as they journey north. If you’d like to see them, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources recommends three prime v...
(Mariah Maynes/KSL NewsRadio)
(Mariah Maynes/KSL NewsRadio)
SALT LAKE CITY — New Great Salt Lake billboards display the lake’s current water level. They were designed and put up by Grow the Flow , a water policy and advocacy nonprofit. Ben Abbott, the executiv...
(Marielle Scott/Deseret News)
(Marielle Scott/Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — Throughout the 2025 Utah legislative session, the Making Waves Artist Collaborative will hold several Great Salt Lake vigils in support of the threatened lake. They are hosting the ev...
GREEN RIVER, Utah — On Wednesday, a conservation coalition filed a lawsuit challenging the approval of an Australian company’s plan for Green River lithium mining. It follows the Utah Division of Envi...
The Great Salt Lake is pictured by the north end of Stansbury Island in Tooele County on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and Public Lands is seeking Great Salt Lake research proposals to fund in the 2026 fiscal year. (Kristin Murphy/Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands is looking for Great Salt Lake research proposals. Selected projects will be funded for the 2026 fiscal year. In a recent Facebook...
Great Salt Lake Collaborative shares updates from many organizations as part of our mission to connect people with information about Great Salt Lake and the Colorado River. Tune in to Birds 'n Bites o...
HERRIMAN, Utah — The Utah Royals unveiled a new uniform inspired by Great Salt Lake on Thursday morning. A press release from Utah Royals said the uniforms were designed “in conjunction” with Nike and...
(Mariah Maynes)
(Mariah Maynes)
2025 is setting in, offering a fresh start and new opportunities to get involved. As you look to find ways to get involved in your community, CNN recommended setting small, manageable, and exciting go...
SALT LAKE CITY – Ogden artist Kellie Bornhoft’s has a goal with her latest work, ‘By a Thread.’ She wants to break the notion that the Great Salt Lake is a barren wasteland. “I often hear people in Ut...
Volunteers with Friends of Great Salt Lake clean up the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake Sept. 16, 2023, as part of International Coastal Cleanup. (Courtesy: Friends of GSL)
Volunteers with Friends of Great Salt Lake clean up the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake Sept. 16, 2023, as part of International Coastal Cleanup. (Courtesy: Friends of GSL)
SALT LAKE CITY — On September 14, Friends of Great Salt Lake will host a cleanup on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake. From 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., volunteers will meet at Great Salt Lake State Par...
In this photo from spring 2024, students from Wasatch Elementary in Salt Lake City work on an art project about the Great Salt Lake with Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore. (Photo courtesy Lisa Bickmore)
In this photo from spring 2024, students from Wasatch Elementary in Salt Lake City work on an art project about the Great Salt Lake with Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore. (Photo courtesy Lisa Bickmore)
SALT LAKE CITY — Lisa Bickmore, Utah’s Poet Laureate, will lead a discussion of Terry Tempest Williams’ book ‘Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place.’ The free event will be hosted by the Gr...