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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...

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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

Tribes still not consulted as state tries to save Great Salt Lake

02-09-2023 by Leia Larsen

Deseret News

I-80 near the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. The Kem Gardner Institute will soon release a policy briefing on the Great Salt Lake containing six major policy insights and recommendations.Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

New analysis says Great Salt Lake can be saved, but not without great effort, and expense

02-09-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Salt Lake Tribune

How the LDS Church could prevent its headquarters from becoming a toxic wasteland

02-09-2023 by Peggy Fletcher Stack and Leia Larsen

KSL.com

Report outlines new policies, analyzes possible solutions to help the Great Salt Lake

02-08-2023 by Carter Williams

Fox 13

Great Salt Lake 'strike team' tells lawmakers to push conservation, commit water

02-08-2023 by Ben Winslow

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

An educational illustration of the water cycle including human impact. This illustration comes from a project aiming to include human impact in water conservation discussions. (Courtesy Sophie Hill)

Utah organizations, individuals seek to increase access to water conservation education

02-07-2023 by Emma Keddington

Fox 13

Utah Senate passes bill offering more money to get rid of lawns

02-06-2023 by Ben Winslow

KUER

(Ben B. Braun, Deseret News) Archaeologist Ron Rood climbs down to the floor of Danger Cave in Tooele County on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022.

Danger Cave still evokes life as it was at a Great Salt Lake of 8,000 years ago

02-06-2023 by Elaine Clark

Salt Lake Tribune

Gov. Cox orders Great Salt Lake causeway be raised again in effort to stave off ecological collapse

02-04-2023 by Leia Larsen

Fox 13

Cox issues emergency order to raise Great Salt Lake causeway berm

02-04-2023 by Ben Winslow

KSL.com

Cox orders division to raise Great Salt Lake causeway berm another 5 feet

02-03-2023 by Carter Williams

Salt Lake Tribune

Experts say pumping ocean water to the Great Salt Lake would cost a lot but help very little

02-03-2023 by Leia Larsen

Deseret News

A northern harrier flies over the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve next to a school in western Davis County on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Development in Davis County has tripled between 1997 and 2022.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, but habitat work means more birds

02-03-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Fox 13

After Great Salt Lake bill stalls, some question legislature's commitment

02-03-2023 by Ben Winslow

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Bill creating water conservation nonprofit passes House committee

02-02-2023 by Alexis Perno

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Utah Republicans block resolution to create target level for the Great Salt Lake

02-01-2023 by Emma Keddington

Fox 13

Small caucus of Utah lawmakers will push Great Salt Lake bills

02-01-2023 by Ben Winslow

KSL.com

$40M Great Salt Lake trust beginning work with newly formed council

02-01-2023 by Carter Williams

Deseret News

Utah lawmakers: ‘We are not going to let our state go dry on our watch’

01-31-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Fox 13

Utah State Legislature turns focus to water conservation, Great Salt Lake

01-30-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

Water, Great Salt Lake bills to be unveiled in the Utah State Legislature

01-29-2023 by Ben Winslow

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Bear River Massacre site commemorates 160th anniversary with ambitious restoration plans

01-27-2023 by Aimee Van Tatenhove

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

The Bear River is pictured on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. The Bear River typically feeds the Great Salt Lake, but currently doesn’t reach the lake due to low water levels. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

Bill to create studies on cost of water infrastructure proceeds

01-26-2023 by Emma Keddington

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Old Mill Golf Course in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 25, 2021.

Bill that would publicize how much water golf courses use meets opposition

01-26-2023 by Emma Keddington

Deseret News

Utah lawmakers unveil two pieces of ‘historic’ legislation for the Great Salt Lake

01-26-2023 by Kyle Dunphey and Kailey Gilbert

KSL.com

Utah, Salt Lake leaders unveil new plans to improve the struggling Great Salt Lake

01-25-2023 by Carter Williams

Fox 13

Bills begin to be introduced to save the Great Salt Lake

01-25-2023 by Ben Winslow

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Bill may help water conservation efforts

01-20-2023 by Alexis Perno

Salt Lake Tribune

Are trees ‘the enemy?’ “Yellow Cake” legislators claim logging can save Great Salt Lake, but scientists are doubtful.

01-20-2023 by Brian Maffly

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Committee approves Great Salt Lake license plate

01-20-2023 by Alexis Perno

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