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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...

Salt Lake Tribune

Great Salt Lake boaters return as water rises more than five feet

06-08-2023 by Leia Larsen

KSL.com

Nonbiting midges are pictured at Antelope Island on Monday. Shorebird survey volunteers noticed fewer bugs in the Great Salt Lake ecosystem during their August 2022 survey. (Photo: Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)

How Utah's record snowpack is impacting the Great Salt Lake's shorebirds

06-07-2023 by Carter Williams

Axios Salt Lake

Different bird species at Farmington Bay. Photo courtesy: Carter Williams/KSL.com

How record snowpack is impacting the Great Salt Lake's ecology

06-07-2023 by Kim Bojórquez

Fox 13

A giant crane lifted larger boats back into their slips at the Great Salt Lake marina Tuesday, a fantastic sign that water levels continue to look promising. (Photo courtesy FOX 13 News).

Boats put back in Great Salt Lake marina as water levels rise

06-07-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

Utah Senate committee confirms Great Salt Lake commissioner

06-06-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

Bills on landscaping, crops and dedicating water to Great Salt Lake to be resurrected

06-01-2023 by Ben Winslow

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Executive director of the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water and Air at Utah State University appointed Great Salt Lake commissioner.

Great Salt Lake commissioner explains why Utahns should avoid 'Great Salt Lake fatigue'

05-31-2023 by Heather May

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

(Laura Seitz | Deseret News) Lane Henderson, of Riverton, competes in a 1-mile open swim competition at Great Salt Lake State Park in Magna on Saturday, June 11, 2022

How to visit the Great Salt Lake

05-25-2023 by Heather May

KSL.com

The sun sets on the Spiral Jetty on the Great Salt Lake on March 16. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox nominated Brian Steed to serve as Utah's first-ever Great Salt Lake commissioner last week. The sun sets on the Spiral Jetty on the Great Salt Lake on March 16. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox nominated Brian Steed to serve as Utah's first-ever Great Salt Lake commissioner last week. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)

New Great Salt Lake commissioner says he hopes Utah avoids 'Great Salt Lake fatigue'

05-25-2023 by Carter Williams

Salt Lake Tribune

The first-appointed Great Salt Lake czar heartened by wet winter but says ‘we still have great cause for concern’

05-25-2023 by Leia Larsen

Axios Salt Lake

Courtesy Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District

How a plant shortage could flummox the West's drought response

05-25-2023 by Erin Alberty

Axios Salt Lake

How to ditch your grass without breaking the bank

05-25-2023 by Kim Bojórquez

Fox 13

SLC looks to preserve a chunk of Great Salt Lake land as development encroaches

05-23-2023 by Ben Winslow

Salt Lake Tribune

(MesoWest/University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences) A webcam shows a time-lapse of a dust storm passing through the Salt Lake Valley Wednesday, May 17, 2023.

Great Salt Lake is still blowing dangerous dust

05-19-2023 by Leia Larsen

Deseret News

New wetlands are seen following the completion of the Freeport Drain project at the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Layton on Wednesday, May 17, 2023.Ryan Sun, Deseret News

New wetlands project near Great Salt Lake is nature’s great cleanser

05-18-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

KSL.com

The water level is rising in the Great Salt Lake due to snowmelt as photographed on May 3. The lake has now risen almost 5 feet over the past several months. (Photo: Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)

'A statewide task': Utah's water future will require collaboration, House speaker says

05-18-2023 by Carter Williams

Fox 13

Lawmakers look to import some Israeli water policies to Utah

05-17-2023 by Ben Winslow

KSL.com

Brian Steed, former executive director at the Utah Department of Natural Resources, in 2021. Gov. Spencer Cox picked Steed to be the first-ever Great Salt Lake commissioner on Monday.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

Former natural resources director tapped to be Utah's 1st Great Salt Lake commissioner

05-16-2023 by Carter Williams

Fox 13

Steed named to oversee Great Salt Lake efforts

05-15-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

The Washington County Water Conservancy District has made a big hire that could lead to some significant conservation changes for southwestern Utah. (Courtesy FOX 13 News)

Washington County's new water conservation boss looks to tackle turf

05-12-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

Diverted water helping Great Salt Lake, reducing flood concerns

05-11-2023 by Darienne DeBrule

Deseret News

Willard Bay releases water to help the Great Salt Lake this spring

05-11-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

View of where the Bear River flows into the Great Salt Lake on May 3, 2023. Water flows into the lake from Bear River under the bridge and floods surrounding areas. Erin Lewis, UPR

This winter's record snowfall is making its way to Great Salt Lake

05-11-2023 by Erin Lewis

Fox 13

Utah leaders close to picking a new 'Great Salt Lake czar'

05-11-2023 by Ben Winslow

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Looking to Israel to help save the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday's Access Utah

05-11-2023 by Tom Williams

KSL.com

The railroad causeway is breached on the Great Salt Lake on Wednesday. (Photo: Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)

Record snowpack likely adds 2 years to Great Salt Lake's long-term outlook, experts say

05-05-2023 by Carter Williams

Deseret News

‘It was fantastic.’ Pilot revels in Great Salt Lake’s wonders

05-04-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Fox 13

Great Salt Lake experts take to the sky to view lake's recent growth

05-04-2023 by Mythili Gubbi

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Workers with Foxtail Turf remove the grass from Patricia Council's North Las Vegas yard, replacing it with artificial turf on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022.

What Utah cities have water-efficient landscape ordinances?

05-04-2023 by Heather May

KSL.com

The Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District's Conservation Garden Park in West Jordan shows off examples of water-wise landscaping on Monday. (Photo: Spenser Heaps, Deseret News)

Utah launches statewide turf grass buyback program as it seeks water-use reformation

05-04-2023 by Carter Williams

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