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What is Spiral Jetty, and what can it tell us about Great Salt Lake?
that had a red hue. In a 1972 essay, Smithson explained that his interest in salt lakes began when he was working on Mono Lake, a project that captured a trip to California’s Mono Lake using Super-8 film and Instamatic slides. The Holt Smithson...
March 26, 2025
What’s next for the Great Salt Lake?
potentially precipitous range.” The lessons saline lakes teach us Steed traveled to northern California recently to visit Mono Lake and Owens Lake, both decimated by overdiversion and drought. What struck Steed is that there are only a few thousand...
November 22, 2024
Utah to convene meeting about how to handle Great Salt Lake toxic dust
Friends of Great Salt Lake's Issues Forum last week, research on dust was presented as well as warnings from Owens and Mono lakes in California on what happens when a lake goes dry. The Great Salt Lake Commissioner's Office, which has been funded by the...
May 13, 2024
Utah teens are 'going global' to save salty lakes
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“One of the groups is from Argentina and they are working to save Laguna Mar chiquita, the other group is working to save Mono Lake in California. In fact, two members of the Argentina group visited the Utah coalition in Salt Lake City this past week to...
May 13, 2024
How a tiny bird could trigger a federal response on Great Salt Lake
depend on aren’t fairing much better. Lake Abert in Oregon has dried up multiple times in the last decade. California’s Mono Lake received some protection after a band of scientists and students sued the state, but in three decades, it has not managed...
March 29, 2024
Environmental group seeks protection for this Great Salt Lake shorebird species
and the U.S. and Canada. About 40% to 60% of the species' global population is estimated to stop at the Great Salt Lake, Mono Lake in California or Lake Abert in Oregon every year. The Great Salt Lake is perhaps the most "crucial" way station among...
March 28, 2024
Utah resource managers ask court to sink Great Salt Lake lawsuit
case leans on the so-called “public trust doctrine,” which environmental advocates successfully used in the 1980s to save Mono Lake from getting sucked dry by the City of Los Angeles. But the Great Salt Lake is much bigger than Mono Lake, and the legal...
December 21, 2023
Groups sue Utah, trying to save Great Salt Lake with the public trust doctrine
The public trust doctrine successfully saved another saline lake on the other side of the Great Basin decades ago. The Mono Lake case made waves among legal scholars and water rights attorneys when the California courts determined it couldn’t legally be...
September 7, 2023
Great Salt Lake wildlife mural bridges continents through migratory birds
Vato said. The murals are all connected by a similar theme: migratory shorebirds. Laguna Mar Chiquita in Argentina, Mono Lake near Lee Vining, and Great Salt Lake are all important stopover sites for shorebird species. Ashley Kijowski, the Utah Division...
July 5, 2023
Farmington wildlife mural will represent ecosystem connection between Argentina, US
Lake in Argentina, a salt lake where migration begins for phalaropes and other birds. He painted his second mural at Mono Lake, a salt lake in Mono County, California, before coming to the Eccles Wildlife Education Center at the Robert N. Hasenyager...
June 29, 2023
‘We must do whatever is necessary’: Mitt Romney’s bill funding study of Great Salt Lake sails through Senate
row, and its ecosystem is nearing collapse. The bills list it as one of the most urgent lakes in need of study. Owens and Mono lakes in California are also named, which water diversions have turned into sources of toxic and dangerous blowing dust. Lake...
December 8, 2022
The Great Salt Lake’s ecological collapse has begun
throughout the Great Basin, contributing to some of the first studies that shed light on the impending disaster that faced Mono Lake in the 1970s. “Even though it’s in a crisis situation,” Herbst said in an interview about his visit to the Great Salt...
November 20, 2022
Competing news outlets are working together to save the Great Salt Lake. Is it working?
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Do you feel like you’ve read/seen/heard more news about the Great Salt Lake in the past several months than you have in, like, years? You’re not wrong. This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism...
November 18, 2022
Join Journalists to Talk Solutions for Great Salt Lake
an innovative reporting trip. What are the causes and consequences of a dried-up Owens Lake? What steps were taken to keep Mono Lake from suffering the same fate? Join via zoom here. View photos, videos, interactive maps and stories: VISIT INTERACTIVE...
November 15, 2022
Join Journalists to Talk Solutions for Great Salt Lake
an innovative reporting trip. What are the causes and consequences of a dried-up Owens Lake? What steps were taken to keep Mono Lake from suffering the same fate? Join via zoom here. View photos, videos, interactive maps and stories: VISIT INTERACTIVE...
November 7, 2022
The memory of Great Salt Lake runs deep, even if the water doesn’t
causes and consequences of Owens Lake drying up until nothing but a dusty lakebed remained, the steps taken to keep Mono Lake from suffering the same fate and what they can teach us about caring for our own saline lake. I hope the skillful reporting...
October 24, 2022
Why isn't the state monitoring Great Salt Lake's dust?
officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, and Geoffrey McQuilkin, executive director of the Mono Lake Committee, check out an air quality monitor while taking journalists on a tour of the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono...
October 12, 2022
‘Just add water and stir’ — Owens Lake shows Utahns that even when salty lakes hit their lowest point, they can recover
to symbolize something essential about salty lakes: They’re resilient. What makes terminal waters special, like Owens and Mono lakes in California or the Great Salt Lake in Utah, is that they’re dynamic. They swell and retreat, rise and fall, responding...
October 12, 2022
Can the Great Salt Lake and its dust pollution derail Utah military operations? Officials look for answers.
officer with the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, which is the regulatory authority over Owens Lake and Mono Lake to the north — said the concern was so great the Navy was doing its own studies. The Department of Defense, in fact, was...
October 12, 2022
To balance its competing needs, is it time to follow Mono Lake's lead and mandate an elevation for the Great Salt Lake?
11 cyclists collected vials of water from a Los Angeles utility’s decorative reflecting pool and biked 350 miles north to Mono Lake’s shore. “They returned the water to its natural destination,” a Mono Lake Committee newsletter proclaimed. There was a...
October 12, 2022
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