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Looking for Utah birdwatching spots? The DWR provided a list of recommendations
April 30th 2025 by Mariah Maynes / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — The Division of Wildlife Resources is highlighting birdwatching in Utah with suggestions on the best viewing areas. According to the DWR, early mornings between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. a...
Great Salt Lake dust storm returns attention to air monitoring gaps
April 29th 2025 by Mariah Maynes / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — An April 27 Great Salt Lake dust storm swept across the Salt Lake Valley, impacting residents in Magna, part of Tooele County and the west side of Salt Lake City. According to Grow...
Enjoy Great Salt Lake scenery this spring with these recreation ideas
April 8th 2025 by Mariah Maynes / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — Great Salt Lake has a reputation for being bug-ridden and sometimes stinky, but it offers plenty of stunning views and awe-inspiring wildlife encounters. Visiting in spring allows rec...
What is Spiral Jetty, and what can it tell us about Great Salt Lake?
March 26th 2025 by Mariah Maynes / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — It was once surrounded by the salty waters of Great Salt Lake, but Spiral Jetty currently sits on the sand. It’s exposed by a receding waterline, hundreds of feet away. The earthwo...
Pink phone booth encourages callers to share messages of hope for Great Salt Lake
March 20th 2025 by Sam Herrera / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — A pink phone booth has been showing up around Salt Lake City, encouraging callers to leave a message of hope for Great Salt Lake. The interactive art pop-up is called the Great Salt...
Great Salt Lake Institute receives $50,000 grant for brine fly study
March 19th 2025 by 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’...
BLM completes mitigation on invasive Phragmites australis near Great Salt Lake
March 11th 2025 by Mariah Maynes / KSL NewsRadio
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 recen...
Migrating swans will soon soar through Utah, here are 3 places you can see them
February 13th 2025 by Mariah Maynes / KSL NewsRadio
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...
New Great Salt Lake billboards show lake’s status
February 11th 2025 by 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 execut...
Thousands of birds dead due to avian influenza at the Great Salt Lake
February 10th 2025 by Kennedy Camarena and Diana Jones, KSL NewsRadio / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources have reported at least 15 thousand birds have died at the Great Salt Lake due to avian influenza. “DWR biologists have confirmed that roughly...
Utah group to host Great Salt Lake vigils during 2025 legislative session
January 20th 2025 by Mariah Maynes / KSL NewsRadio
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...
What’s on tap for Great Salt Lake in the 2025 Utah General Legislative Session
January 15th 2025 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — Great Salt Lake is once again expected to be a topic of discussion and action for Utah lawmakers in the 2025 Utah General Legislative Session, which starts next week. Lawmakers have...
New study says Utahns, especially farmers, need to cut water use by 35% to save Great Salt Lake
January 7th 2025 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — Despite Utahns’ efforts to save and conserve water for Great Salt Lake over the last few years, researchers say it’s going to take a lot more conservation to preserve the state’s stil...
Federal funding to bring new stream gates to Great Salt Lake
November 26th 2024 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
REESE, Utah — The Bureau of Reclamation is giving $3 million to help water managers better track Great Salt Lake’s incoming water. Water managers say the money will fund 13 new stream gates. The str...
Rare mirabilite formations spotted on Great Salt Lake
November 26th 2024 by Mariah Maynes/KSL NR / KSL NewsRadio
GREAT SALT LAKE, Utah — Rare mirabilite formations were recently spotted on the waters of Great Salt Lake. According to the Utah Division of State Parks, the rare mirabilite formations can only be...
Great Salt Lake license plates could hit bumpers in the next couple of months
November 7th 2024 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — The long wait for new, specialty Great Salt Lake license plates is almost over. The state needed 500 applicants to start moving forward with the final design, production and distrib...
Utah teens lead 2034 Olympics-inspired protest supporting Great Salt Lake
October 31st 2024 by Mariah Maynes/KSL NR / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — A group of Utah teens held an Olympics-inspired protest Saturday, drawing attention to the negative impacts a drying Great Salt Lake could have on the state and the 2034 Olympics...
Coalition lawsuit challenges Green River lithium mining approval
October 17th 2024 by Mariah Maynes / KSL NewsRadio
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 E...
The summer heat could cost the Great Salt Lake more water than normal, lose much of its year-long progress, officials say
August 26th 2024 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s safe to say the brutal start to this summer along the Wasatch Front has hit Great Salt Lake especially hard. Deputy Great Salt Lake Commissioner Tim Davis said the lake normall...
Encounter a bison? Wildlife officials say to keep your distance
June 11th 2024 by Alexandrea Bonilla / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns flocking to Antelope Island this summer will be sharing the park with over 700 bison. Faith Heaton-Jolley with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says if you ever find...
The Great Salt Lake has a chance to be healthy again for the first time in over a decade
April 19th 2024 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — In a couple of months, the Great Salt Lake has a chance of reaching its healthy range for the first time in over a decade. The Natural Resources Conservation Service recently foreca...
Park manager says West Davis Hwy can boost tourism at Antelope Island
February 12th 2024 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SYRACUSE, Utah — Navigating western Davis County has been a lot easier over the past month. That’s how long the new West Davis Highway (SR 177) has been open. It’s made traveling from work to home a...
Can replacing a pipeline save water and combat avian botulism on Great Salt Lake? A new proposal thinks so
February 6th 2024 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
Editor’s note: This story has been updated for clarity. SALT LAKE CITY — Most RFA or ‘request for appropriation’ hearings on Capitol Hill involve a five-minute presentation where someone asks the s...
Great Salt Lake leaders ask reservoir managers to release excess water
February 6th 2024 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY— Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed and his office are reaching out to reservoir managers to see if they have any water to spare for Great Salt Lake. Utah’s largest body of wate...
Utah lawmaker: The Great Salt Lake could lose 10 feet if cities reuse their wastewater
December 21st 2023 by Peter Johnston / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY– A battle over where wastewater goes is pitting the needs of cities against the shrinking Great Salt Lake. Currently, cities in the Great Salt Lake basin use water treatment facilitie...
Lake lost almost 2 feet of '23 winter snowmelt to evaporation
November 9th 2023 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY— The Great Salt Lake’s wetland areas are getting a boost. $8.5 million has been awarded to various government and nonprofit groups from Salt Lake County to Box Elder County. The mone...
How one dairy farmer is saving water for the Great Salt Lake
November 8th 2023 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
TRENTON, Utah — T Dairy sits off of a back road in the Western Cache Valley, about 52 miles by car from Bear River Bay in the Great Salt Lake. The farm, like many in Utah, gets its water from the Grea...
Great Salt Lake brine shrimp fishermen ‘optimistic’ as yearly harvest begins
October 4th 2023 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s brine shrimp fishermen are once again out on the waters of the Great Salt Lake to harvest brine shrimp cysts (or eggs) and distribute them around the world. However, this yea...
Drought-resistant grass now at some Salt Lake City golf courses
September 1st 2023 by Heather Kelly / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — Golfers at Bonneville, Rose Park, and Glendale courses may have noticed new drought-resistant grass if they hit out of bounds. According to the Salt Lake City Department of Public U...
Utah lawmakers plan to reevaluate water rights held by mineral companies on the Great Salt Lake
August 24th 2023 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — In the coming months, Utah lawmakers will likely take another look at the annual water rights held by mineral companies along the Great Salt Lake. Utah House Majority Leader Mike S...
US Magnesium plans to challenge study naming them as major polluter
June 29th 2023 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — Five months after a study done by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration named them as a major contributor to the gunk in Utah’s winter inversions, U.S. Magnesium said th...
Lower Great Salt Lake water level may help fight phragmites
June 15th 2023 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — As water managers watch the Great Salt Lake rise, they’re still battling the invasive phragmites on the Great Salt Lake shoreline. And, Ben Stireman with the Division of Forestry Fi...
Great Salt Lake brine shrimp population increases as lake reaches healthy levels
June 15th 2023 by Adam Small / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — The brine shrimp industry is breathing a sigh of relief thanks to the rising water level of the Great Salt Lake. And so is the shrimp industry in general, and those who eat shrimp...
Cloud seeding could bring more water to the Great Salt Lake, Utah Department of Natural Resources says
July 28th 2022 by Lindsay Aerts / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Natural Resources wants to try what’s called cloud seeding to try and help save the Great Salt Lake. It’s a weather modification that happens by burning silv...
Utah House Speaker bringing back second annual Great Salt Lake Summit
July 27th 2022 by Lindsay Aerts / KSL NewsRadio
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Speaker of the House Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, says he’s bringing back the Great Salt Lake Summit this October. This would be the second Great Salt Lake Summit, the first was...
How the Great Salt Lake lakebed could contribute to pollution, other issues
April 18th 2022 by Kira Hoffelmeyer / KSL NewsRadio
LOGAN, Utah — Two Ph.D. students from Utah State University are trying to measure the dust blowing off the Great Salt Lake and learn how it contributes to pollution and air quality along the Wasatch F...
Great Salt Lake sinking levels could impact bird migration
April 13th 2022 by Kira Hoffelmeyer / KSL NewsRadio
BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah — The drying up Great Salt Lake could have dire consequences for the birds migrating through the area. It’s not as simple as the lack of water, though, there are a few differe...
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