Amy Joi O’Donoghue, Deseret News | Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune
Deseret News Reporter and Salt Lake Tribune Reporter
Amy Joi O’Donoghue is a reporter for the Utah InDepth team with decades of expertise in land and environmental issues. In 2019 she received a silver medal in the prestigious Kavli competition by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Amy’s family lives in Weber County with their horses, chickens, Irish Wolfhounds and Jack the cat. Leia Larsen is a sixth generation Utahn and a water and land use reporter reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has covered environment, energy and political issues throughout the West. When she’s not chasing the news, Leia can be found exploring the Wasatch Mountains, sleeping in the desert or rooting around her garden.
The small community of Keeler is pictured with the dry lakebed of Owens Lake in the background in Inyo County, California, on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
The small community of Keeler is pictured with the dry lakebed of Owens Lake in the background in Inyo County, California, on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
Owens Dry Lakebed, Calif. — The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began siphoning the waters of the 110-square-mile Owens Lake in 1913. Within 13 short years, the California lake went dry. The...