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Deseret News

2 Utah projects get federal funding to help improve water systems in the West

05-06-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Money designed in part to improve water supply in the Colorado River Basin In another move to build water resilient systems in the West an

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Row, hunt, play at Great Salt Lake: Special recreation edition

05-02-2024 by Heather May

This is adapted from our free weekly newsletter Lake Effect, which comes out every Friday. Sign up for free here. It's time to get outsid

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Salt Lake Tribune

The Colorado River is pictured near Moab in Grand County on Sunday, April 28, 2024. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

Why Utahns should care about the Colorado River

05-02-2024 by Anastasia Hufham

The Salt Lake Tribune has joined the Colorado River Collaborative to keep Utahns informed about this vital resource. The Colorado River no

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Fox 13

Video: Stakes, risks ahead of Colorado River Compact expiration

05-02-2024 by Max Roth

MOAB, Utah — Journalists from radio stations, websites, newspapers and television attended the first Colorado River Collaborative at Utah St

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The Times-Independent

Journalists and water experts raft down the Moab Daily section of the Colorado River with Holiday River Expeditions during a kickoff event for the Colorado River Collaborative in Grand County on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The kickoff event was sponsored by the Utah State University Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water and Air and The Water Desk. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)

The Times-Independent joins Colorado River collaborative

05-02-2024 by The Times-Independent

The award-winning Great Salt Lake Collaborative is expanding to cover the Colorado River and The Times-Independent has joined the team of me

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St. George News

Water flows through the Colorado River Moab Daily in Grand County on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)

St. George News joins Colorado River Collaborative to expand coverage of Southern Utah’s water challenges

05-02-2024 by St George News

ST. GEORGE — The award-winning Great Salt Lake Collaborative is expanding to cover the Colorado River, and St. George News is among the news

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Deseret News

The Colorado River is pictured by Dead Horse Point State Park in Grand County on Friday, April 26, 2024. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)

The Colorado River just called you for help. Will you answer?

05-02-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

New media collaborative seeks answers, solutions for the hardest working river in the West Here in a canyon northeast of Moab, it is diff

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Deseret News

The 180-acre Kane Creek development site, which is in a floodplain, is pictured along the Colorado River near Moab on Friday, April 26, 2024. Developers plan to build around 580 residential and commercial units. There is only one road in and out. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

Battle for Moab: Residents fight against Kane Creek development

05-02-2024 by Emma Pitts

The proposed luxury resort on a former campground site has sparked outcry over environmental and community impacts Utah’s Wild West is no

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KSL.com

Journalists and water experts raft down the Moab Daily section of the Colorado River with Holiday River Expeditions during a kickoff event for the Colorado River Collaborative in Grand County on Thursday, April 25, 2024.

The Colorado River is vital in Utah. Here's why it's going to get even more publicity

05-02-2024 by Carter Williams

MOAB — The sun begins to break from an overcast sky as Jennifer Jones describes how popular this section of the Colorado River has become in

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Amplify Utah

Directional signs point residents of Glendale's Wasatch Commons to shared facilities like the Common House, where they gather regularly for meals and activities. (Photo courtesy Vicky Wason).

Glendale co-housing community shares shovels, meals and a love for Great Salt Lake

04-30-2024 by Tess White

Vicky Wason eats meals with her neighbors in a common house, and takes her turn doing chores benefiting all of her neighbors. Her children g

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Amplify Utah

New rowers practicing stroke techniques at the Great Salt Lake Marina in April. (Photo: Makena Klinge)

Club draws new and seasoned rowers to the waters of Great Salt Lake despite worries over its future

04-30-2024 by Makena Klinge

Editor's note: This article is part of an occasional series by the Great Salt Lake Collaborative showcasing how to have fun at the Great Sal

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Amplify Utah

A still of Joshua Dixon, a member of the Navajo Nation, from the film ‘The Illusion of Abundance,’ where he explains the connection many Native people have with the land.

Film fuses art forms and Indigenous voices in attempt to bring Great Salt Lake’s demise to the forefront

04-29-2024 by Vanessa Hudson

Wearing a dark red shirt, Joshua Dixon sits in a tall grass field, singing a traditional Diné song. The song ends, and Dixon, a member of Ut

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KUER

High water during runoff on the Jordan River in Utah County, April 9, 2024. Water levels are high enough to submerge flood plains this year, but with climate change, this could become an increasingly rare occurrence. (Tilda Wilson, KUER)

Wet ‘miracle springs’? Utah shouldn’t count on ‘em and keep its eye on conservation

04-27-2024 by Tilda Wilson

In Utah, a long dry winter is often followed by heavy drought-busting rain in the spring. A new study from Utah State University defines the

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Amplify Utah

Jim Hopkins, recently retired brine shrimper, and Meisei Gonzalez discuss the magic of sunrises and sunsets reflecting on Great Salt Lake near the Saltair on March 30. (Photo Jeri Gravlin)

Staying Salty: A Q&A with the hosts of a new podcast from the shores of Great Salt Lake

04-27-2024 by Kyungsoo Park and Marcie Young Cancio

Olivia Juarez doesn’t want to leave Salt Lake City. And they don’t want you to leave either. “All of my family's here,” said Juarez, a lif

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Fox 13

More reservoir releases planned to keep Great Salt Lake rising

04-27-2024 by Ben Winslow

The man tasked by Utah's political leaders with helping to save the Great Salt Lake is hoping to take advantage of another strong winter sno

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Fox 13

The Great Salt Lake is getting closer to reaching a "healthy range" ecologically, benefiting from another strong winter. On Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey's measuring station at Saltair put the lake's elevation at 4,194.7 feet. At its record low? The lake was at 4,188.5 feet in November 2022.

Guess the Great Salt Lake's rise? The state of Utah will give you a prize

04-27-2024 by Ben Winslow

SALT LAKE CITY — Seth Horowitz went for a swim in the Great Salt Lake, going out to the buoys and back again. "Beautiful!" he told FOX 13

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Standard-Examiner

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)   Travis and Bailey Hansen from Ogden, until for antlers, during the Antelope Island Shed Hunt, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

Antelope Island hosts popular shed antler hunt amid shrinking Great Salt Lake

04-27-2024 by Rob Nielsen

Editor's note: This article is part of an occasional series by the Great Salt Lake Collaborative showcasing the fun side of the Great Salt L

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Amplify Utah

A traditional “Malia” style fiberglass canoe, named Kai Lana Kaleo, was later converted into a Hawaiian sailing canoe. (Photo courtesy of Hui Paoakalani Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe Club).

Paddling waves of tradition: the cultural legacy of Great Salt Lake’s Hawaiian canoe club

04-26-2024 by Camille Lee

Editor's note: This article is part of an occasional series by the Great Salt Lake Collaborative showcasing how to have fun at the Great Sal

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Amplify Utah

An undated image of recreational enthusiast Viviana Hernandez, whose love of nature was sparked by the Jordan River in the Salt Lake City neighborhood of Rose Park. (Photo courtesy Viviana Hernandez)

Unleashing Adventure: Recreating on Salt Lake City’s West Side and the Jordan River

04-25-2024 by Emma Ratkovic

Editor's note: This article is part of an occasional series by the Great Salt Lake Collaborative showcasing how to have fun at the Great Sal

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Deseret News

A group of fourth graders look for wildlife and plants in the water during a Wings and Water field trip at the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Layton on Thursday, April 18, 2024. The Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve and USU Botanical Center offer the Wings and Water program for fourth graders to connect them with the lake and get a taste of the beauty, birds and other wildlife the 4,500 acres have to offer. | Megan Nielsen, Deseret News

Shorelands Preserve highlights recreation at Great Salt Lake

04-19-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Davis County jewel offers chance to get back to nature, learn about the lake Editor's note: This article is part of an occasional series

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Fox 13

Israeli agriculture experts collaborate with Utahns on water-saving practices

04-19-2024 by Ben Winslow

DAMMERON VALLEY, Utah — The deserts of southwestern Utah make a good place to grow wine-making grapes. "We're lucky to have a good source

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