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Ways to get involved this week, May 23

05-22-2025 by Mariah Maynes

Editor's note: This is an adaptation of our free, weekly newsletter. You can subscribe for more content like this here. Watch a site-speci...

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Fox 13

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Central Utah Project may not see deep cuts in Trump budget

05-22-2025 by Ben Winslow

SALT LAKE CITY — The Central Utah Project, which supplies water to millions of Utahns, may not see as deep of budget cuts as expected. A s...

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake City skyline covered in dust on a windy day, Monday, May 12, 2025.

Great Salt Lake dust isn’t being measured accurately. Here’s what the state is doing about it.

05-21-2025 by Megan Banta and Anastasia Hufham

The state is still trying to bridge the gap in its monitoring network, a state environmental scientist said. In late January, a weather sa...

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Fox 13

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House Speaker floats new idea to help deal with Great Salt Lake dust

05-21-2025 by Ben Winslow

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's powerful Speaker of the House is floating a new idea to help deal with dust blowing into communities from a shrinkin...

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KSL-TV

Nick Petersen takes photographs of the Great Salt Lake. Pedersen is a photographer who creates imaginary hyper-realistic photomontages addressing environmental issues. (Photo: Peter Rosen, KSL-TV)

Pictures of the future: How a photographer is joining the movement to save the Great Salt Lake

05-20-2025 by Peter Rosen

SALT LAKE CITY — It is a possibility that's easy to ignore: the Great Salt Lake could dry up. But photographer Nick Pedersen is trying to pu...

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The shore of the Great Salt Lake, with Salt Lake City in the distance, as seen from Antelope Island on Thursday, May 1, 2025.

How a collapsing Great Salt Lake could take Utah’s economy — and maybe your employer — down with it

05-14-2025 by Tony Semerad

On top of environmental dangers, a new University of Utah study warns, a dried lake bed and toxic dust storms could bring huge business loss...

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Fox 13

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Hundreds of people paid for one, so where's the Great Salt Lake license plate?

05-13-2025 by Ben Winslow

SALT LAKE CITY — Roy Green shelled out $92 for a pair of Great Salt Lake specialty license plates. "We thought it would be a good idea to...

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

 Artist Nick Pedersen’s design represents two distinctly different futures for Great Salt Lake. (Nick Pedersen)

A conversation with the artist behind two Great Salt Lake billboards in Poplar Grove

05-12-2025 by Mariah Maynes

Utah Artist Nick Pedersen’s recent work, “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” currently stands on two billboards on the corner of 870 South and 900 W...

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Ways to get involved this week, May 12

05-12-2025 by Mariah Maynes

Editor's note: This is an adaptation of our free, weekly newsletter. You can subscribe for more content like this here. Join Seven Canyons...

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KSL.com

Sandy city officials on Thursday dedicated a new wetlands park area next to Grandpa's Fish Pond after seven years of planning and development.  Sandy city officials on Thursday dedicated a new wetlands park area next to Grandpa's Fish Pond after seven years of planning and development. (Gabriela Fletcher, KSL.com)

'Sanctuary for our community': Sandy opens revitalized wetland park

05-09-2025 by Gabriela Fletcher

SANDY — A 6.4-acre wetland park was dedicated on Thursday, following seven years of planning and development. The park aims to create a heal...

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Utah News Dispatch

The Provo River Delta is pictured on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Funding for water and wildlife conservation in Utah now on Trump’s list of budget cuts

05-09-2025 by Kyle Dunphey

A recent budget request from the White House asks Congress to slash $609 million for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Pro...

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Fox 13

Trump proposes deep budget cut to Utah water project, potentially impacting millions

05-09-2025 by Ben Winslow

OREM, Utah — The Trump administration is proposing a jaw-dropping $609 million cut to the massive Central Utah Project, which supplies water...

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Weber State University Professor John Cavitt and a student look for Snowy Plovers during a survey in 2008. (Weber State University)

Weber State professor teams up with DWR to host Snowy Plover survey

05-08-2025 by Mariah Maynes

SALT LAKE CITY — A Weber State University Professor has teamed up with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to organize a Snowy Plover su...

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Fox 13

Photo by: Ryan Beard/Scripps National News Team

Provo tries again on tiered water rates

05-08-2025 by Ben Winslow

PROVO, Utah — Mayor Michelle Kaufusi has submitted a change to her proposal to introduce a tiered water rate system. At Tuesday's meeting...

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Fox 13

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USU research could yield solutions for getting water to the Great Salt Lake

05-06-2025 by Ben Winslow

WHEELON, Utah — Standing next to a canal near Cutler Dam, groups of people huddled and talked about water. Cutler Dam is the last dam on t...

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) In Utah, farmers and ranchers die by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in the state.

Utah farmers signed up for federally funded therapy. Then the money stopped.

05-02-2025 by Jessica Schreifels

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran o...

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Fox 13

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Inside POV of a Great Salt Lake dust storm

04-30-2025 by Ben Winslow

SALTAIR, Utah — Carmen ValDez was coming back from a camping trip on Sunday when she saw it. "I saw the Saltair covered in dust and a nice...

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KSL NewsRadio

A great blue heron stands at the Great Salt Lake's Farmington Bay in Farmington on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. (Ryan Sun/Deseret News)

Looking for Utah birdwatching spots? The DWR provided a list of recommendations

04-30-2025 by Mariah Maynes

SALT LAKE CITY — The Division of Wildlife Resources is highlighting birdwatching in Utah with suggestions on the best viewing areas. Acco...

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KSL.com

Dust flies off the Great Salt Lake on Sunday. Environmental groups warn that despite the increase this spring, the lake is still prone to dust storms. (Carmen Valdez/Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah)

Why groups remain 'deeply concerned' about Great Salt Lake

04-30-2025 by Carter Williams

SALT LAKE CITY — A dust event near Saltair over the weekend highlights how dust is still flying off the Great Salt Lake despite its recent g...

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KSL NewsRadio

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Great Salt Lake dust storm returns attention to air monitoring gaps

04-29-2025 by Mariah Maynes

SALT LAKE CITY — An April 27 Great Salt Lake dust storm swept across the Salt Lake Valley, impacting residents in Magna, part of Tooele Coun...

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Utah News Dispatch

The Colorado River is pictured near Moab on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

Dust is speeding up snowmelt in the Colorado River, University of Utah study finds

04-28-2025 by Kyle Dunphey

Researchers at the University of Utah recently published a first-of-its-kind study that measures the impact dust has on melting snow in the...

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