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Aerial view of harvester and speeder boats deploying containment booms in preparation for harvesting brine shrimp (Artemia) on Great Salt Lake. Courtesy Great Salt Lake Artemia.

The world needs to feed 10 billion people. The Great Salt Lake could teach us how.

12-05-2023 by Emma Penrod

Saving the Great Salt Lake is important because it makes a critical international industry more sustainable. Editor’s note: This story is...

Fox 13

A highly-anticipated report on saving the Great Salt Lake is delivered to Utah leaders

12-05-2023 by Ben Winslow

SALT LAKE CITY — A highly-anticipated report recommending ways to save the Great Salt Lake has been delivered to Utah's governor and legisla...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

This photo from 1930 shows a promotional sign at Saltair. In 1893 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built Saltair on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, sixteen miles from downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. It was sold to a private individual in 1906. The main attraction was swimming in the Great Salt Lake. There was also a roller coaster, a merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, midway games, bicycle races, touring vaudeville companies, rodeos, bullfights, boat rides on the lake, firework display and even hot-air balloons. In 1925 it burned to the ground. A new pavilion was designed and built but it never regained its popularity. It closed for good in 1958. It was again destroyed by fire in November of 1970. Photo used by permission, Uintah County Library Regional History Center, all rights reserved.

Why save the Great Salt Lake? A special report

11-30-2023 by Emma Penrod

Here’s a question that catches people off guard: What would happen if Utah is successful in saving the Great Salt Lake? For the past two y...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jake Young, landscape architect designed this park strip in Farmington, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.

Fixing the lake could pave the way to solving Utah’s mental health crisis

11-28-2023 by Emma Penrod

How thinking about water when planning cities and homes can save the lake and lead to happier, more connected Utahns Editor’s note: This s...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

This illustration shows a way to develop communities along the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake so that sprawl is limited and the wetlands are buffered. It was created by Utah State University’s Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning seniors in their capstone class in Spring 2023.

How to build a lake-friendly yard, neighborhood

11-28-2023 by Heather May

Is it possible to create a Great Salt Lake friendly neighborhood? Seniors in Utah State University’s Landscape Architecture & Environmenta...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Caleb Wilkins is the CEO of the agricultural startup Renaissance Ag. Courtesy Renaissance Ag. His goal is to produce more food in less space by using vertical farming techniques.

Farming goes high tech

11-28-2023 by Emma Penrod

Renaissance Ag CEO Caleb Wilkins does not believe farmers set out to destroy the environment, the land on which they depend. They know how t...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Kelby Johnson with his sons Luke (in his arms) and Wyatt. Johnson runs a 100-acre farm in Benson, Utah, and hopes his children will become fifth-generation family farmers. But the Johnsons must withstand pressure to sell to developers and cut costs and water for the Great Salt Lake. (Jeffrey Dahdah, KSL-TV).

The Great Salt Lake and Utah farms could save each other. Here's how.

11-28-2023 by Emma Penrod

Surprise: Agriculture and the lake need each other to survive Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of stories by the Great Salt L...

Deseret News

Brad Blanch looks over a dam on the Weber River in Weber County on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Blanch is a West Weber resident who wants to lease several hundred acre-feet of water to benefit the Great Salt Lake. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

How can farmers help the Great Salt Lake? This one may have an answer

08-10-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Fox 13

Sandy City launches water conservation app

08-10-2023 by Ben Winslow

Deseret News

The Great Salt Lake is pictured on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. The Great Salt Lake Stewardship Act, sponsored by Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is a way to tap into a pool of money already set aside for water projects, but unused.Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

The Great Salt Lake Stewardship Act would let new money flow to help the lake

08-10-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Salt Lake Tribune

Great Salt Lake’s hidden treasure to be largely left alone

08-10-2023 by Leia Larsen

Fox 13

Environmentalists seek to elevate the Great Salt Lake in local policy decisions

08-10-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

How to get a new Great Salt Lake license plate

08-10-2023 by Ben Winslow

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Gunnison Island hosts one of the largest breeding grounds for American white pelicans in the world. (Aimee Van Tatenhove, UPR)

Reporter interview: American White Pelican colony abandons Great Salt Lake nesting site

07-21-2023 by Erin Lewis

Fox 13

Great Salt Lake trust offers millions for wetland protection

07-21-2023 by Ben Winslow

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Recommended books about water, drought or the West

07-20-2023 by Heather May

Fox 13

'People's Great Salt Lake Summit' seeks to push elected leaders to do more

07-19-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

The pink appearance of the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake looks quite different from the typical blue-green water seen near the Marina. Photo courtesy FOX 13 News

The surprising pink color of Great Salt Lake's northern portion explained

07-19-2023 by Darienne DeBrule

Salt Lake Tribune

Great Salt Lake Summit emphasizes one snow-heavy winter won’t be enough

07-19-2023 by Jordan Miller

Fox 13

Salt Lake County Council scrutinizes water districts over proposed property tax hikes

07-19-2023 by Ben Winslow

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Phalaropes from the Antelope Island Causeway. Sierra Hastings/Sageland Collaborative

Utah's migratory shorebird surveys started up again after a 30-year hiatus and so far, numbers remain comparable

07-06-2023 by Erin Lewis

Salt Lake Tribune

PeliCam photos courtesy of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University and the Utah State Division of Wildlife.

Thousands of nesting birds have vanished at Great Salt Lake’s Gunnison Island

07-05-2023 by Leia Larsen

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Ashley Kijowski / UDWR Franco "Vato" Cervato paints the Great Salt Lake mural at the Eccles Wildlife Education Center in Farmington Bay.

Great Salt Lake wildlife mural bridges continents through migratory birds

07-05-2023 by Aimee Van Tatenhove

Fox 13

The new Great Salt Lake Commissioner is ready to help save the lake

07-05-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

A special turf that uses less water in Utah's drought is growing in popularity

07-05-2023 by Ben Winslow

KSL.com

The Antelope Island marina at the Great Salt Lake on June 5. The lake appears to have maxed out at about 4,194 feet elevation after this year's record snowpack. The Antelope Island marina at the Great Salt Lake on June 5. The lake appears to have maxed out at about 4,194 feet elevation after this year's record snowpack. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)

How much did Utah's record snowpack help the Great Salt Lake?

07-05-2023 by Carter Williams

KSL.com

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall speaks outside of the Day-Riverside Branch Library in Salt Lake City on Monday, introducing a new water-conservation program. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall speaks outside of the Day-Riverside Branch Library in Salt Lake City on Monday, introducing a new water-conservation program. (Carter Williams, KSL.com)

New Salt Lake program uses weather data, satellite imagery to help residents water more efficiently

06-29-2023 by Carter Williams

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Salt Lake City residents can now easily track their water use

06-29-2023 by Erin Lewis

KSL NewsRadio

The US Magnesium Rowley Plant in Tooele County is pictured on Friday, June 18, 2021. (Spenser Heaps/Deseret News)

US Magnesium plans to challenge study naming them as major polluter

06-29-2023 by Adam Small

KSL.com

Argentinian artist Franco Cervata Cozza, who also goes by the artist name Vato, paints a mural at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Wildlife Education Center in Farmington on Saturday. (Photo: Spenser Heaps, Deseret News)

Farmington wildlife mural will represent ecosystem connection between Argentina, US

06-29-2023 by Gabrielle Shiozawa

KSL.com

Dusty snow is visible at an Alta Atwater snow pit on May 17. (Photo: Otto Lang via University of Utah)

How Alta's 'dirtiest' snow year ended its 2022 snowmelt process 2 weeks early

06-15-2023 by Carter Williams

Deseret News

The Antelope Island marina is pictured in the Great Salt Lake on Monday, June 5, 2023. Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Utah Rep. John Curtis unveiled the Great Salt Lake Stewardship Act, which addresses the ecological crisis facing the Great Salt Lake.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

Lee, Curtis propose more money to help the ailing Great Salt Lake

06-15-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

KSL NewsRadio

FILE: Phragmites sit along the Great Salt Lake in Davis County on Wednesday, March, 19, 2008. State officials say that in 2023, higher levels of the lake will help them further fight the invasive species. (Tim Hussin/ Deseret Morning News)

Lower Great Salt Lake water level may help fight phragmites

06-15-2023 by Adam Small

Salt Lake Tribune

Does Utah need (or want) a sixth national park?

06-15-2023 by Leia Larsen

KSL NewsRadio

Utah's brine shrimp harvesters are breathing a sigh of relief from all the new water in The Great Salt Lake. (Ben B. Braun, Deseret News)

Great Salt Lake brine shrimp population increases as lake reaches healthy levels

06-15-2023 by Adam Small

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Participants in the Growing Water Smart workshop had lunch at USU's Greenville Research Farm before learning more about water conservation solutions researchers are working towards. Aaron Fortin / Janet Quinney Lawson Institute For Land, Water And Air

Growing Water Smart workshop encourages collaboration on water conservation

06-15-2023 by Erin Lewis

Deseret News

Water year leaves slightly fewer Utahns worried about Great Salt Lake

06-13-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

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