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Axios Salt Lake

Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios

Mormon Church donates water shares to aid the Great Salt Lake

03-16-2023 by Kim Bojórquez

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will donate 20,000 acre-feet of water to the Great Salt Lake in an attempt to save the shrin...

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Angel Moroni atop The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Bountiful Temple, Dec. 10, 2022, with the shrinking Great Salt Lake visible in the background.

LDS Church to permanently donate thousands of acre-feet of water to the Great Salt Lake

03-16-2023 by Leia Larsen

The gift has been months in the making, and represents the first major private sector commitment to saving the imperiled lake. The Church...

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Fox 13

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs Great Salt Lake bills into law. Courtesy FOX 13 News

Governor signs Great Salt Lake bills into law

03-16-2023 by Ben Winslow

SALT LAKE CITY — Governor Spencer Cox and Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson signed a series of bills into law aimed at water conservation and sa...

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KSL.com

A great blue heron at Farmington Bay on Feb. 19, 2022. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints agreed to donate 5,700 water shares to send more water to Farmington Bay area of the Great Salt Lake. (Carter Williams, KSL.com)

Church of Jesus Christ donates 5.7K water shares to the Great Salt Lake

03-15-2023 by Carter Williams

SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has agreed to donate 5,700 water shares that will send more than 20,000 acr...

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Fox 13

A canal that ferries water from the LDS Church to the Great Salt Lake. Photo: Ben Winslow, FOX 13 News

LDS Church donates water to Great Salt Lake

03-15-2023 by Ben Winslow

This story has been updated: SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a major property owner in the state of Utah...

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Deseret News

Dust blows across the dry lakebed of the Great Salt Lake near Salt Lake City on Aug. 12, 2022. The Utah Air Quality Division’s technical team will begin reviewing strategic locations for the placement of four new dust monitors to capture wind events over the Great Salt Lake’s exposed bed to determine the levels of arsenic and other pollutants carried to the Wasatch Front.Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

Great Salt Lake dust events, Utah ozone issues get monitoring money

03-15-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Utah’s pollution problems get a state funding boost to help clear the skies The Utah Air Quality Division’s technical team will begin revi...

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Fox 13

Even with massive snowpack, conservation key to Utah's drought and Great Salt Lake

03-15-2023 by Ben Winslow

LOGAN, Utah — With significant snowpack in the mountains all over the state, some communities are being told to prepare for potential floodi...

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dan Harris poses for a portrait in his Eden home on Mar. 6, 2023. Harris grows hay and Christmas trees on his 9 acre farm. He's also the president of Middle Fork Irrigation Co. which provides water shares to 11 users.

Farmers are skeptical about participating in water leasing to save the Great Salt Lake. Here’s why.

03-14-2023 by Leia Larsen

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Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Wilson's phalaropes and flamingos at Laguna Mar Chiquita. Photo by Yanina Druetta

Ambitious initiatives and shorebirds connect two saline lakes hemispheres apart

03-09-2023 by Aimee Van Tatenhove

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Deseret News

A couple and their dog walk near the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

Shift in Utah water law could be ‘game changer’ for the Great Salt Lake

03-09-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Bill restricting grass at new government facilities fails on last day

03-03-2023 by Alexis Perno

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Fox 13

A major air quality bill just got revived and is passing the Utah legislature

03-03-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Members of Save our Great Salt Lake pose for a picture with their “Great Salt Lake To-Do List” banner outside the House chamber Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Photo by Emma Keddington)

Lake advocates rally to demand more action for Great Salt Lake

03-01-2023 by Emma Keddington

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KSL-TV

Saving the Great Salt Lake is not going to be a quick fix

02-27-2023 by Kevin Eubank

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Fox 13

What water projects are in Utah's new $28 billion budget?

02-27-2023 by Ben Winslow

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KSL.com

Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, Feb. 7. A proposed bill would set up a new commissioner who would oversee the efforts to get water into the lake. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)

New bill would create a Great Salt Lake commissioner — but some have concerns

02-24-2023 by Carter Williams

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Promontory Point Landfill, located on the west side of the southern tip of Promontory Point peninsula, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022.

Utah regulators to deny permit for landfill on the shores of Great Salt Lake

02-23-2023 by Leia Larsen

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Fox 13

Great Salt Lake bills start to advance in Utah's legislature

02-23-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Ski resorts raise awareness as Great Salt Lake crisis threatens ‘greatest snow on earth’

02-22-2023 by Emma Keddington

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Fox 13

Photo by: Ben Winslow, FOX 13 News  Members of Save Our Great Salt Lake talk to lawmakers outside the House chamber.

Utah lawmakers urged to do more — and faster — to save the Great Salt Lake

02-21-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Spiritual Leader Rios Pacheco of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation speaks to the importance of the Great Salt Lake to his community. Pacheco was the first speaker at the interfaith press conference Thursday morning. Photo by Alexis Perno, Great Salt Lake Collaborative

‘A crisis of faith’: spiritual leaders convene at Capitol to call for Great Salt Lake action

02-16-2023 by Alexis Perno

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Fox 13

Utah legislature eyes changing approach to saving Great Salt Lake

02-15-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Fox 13

Air quality bill will be changed to target U.S. Magnesium

02-15-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Students from Emerson Elementary in Salt Lake City created a petition to name the brine shrimp as the state crustacean. Photo from change.org petition.

Bill designating brine shrimp as Utah’s crustacean passes first test

02-15-2023 by Emma Keddington

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Per Capita water consumption bill passed in House

02-13-2023 by Emma Keddington

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Salt Lake Tribune

Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune Carol Majeske, recreation staff officer for the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, has been researching the interesting history of the Spruces Campground. The area, now heavily wooded, was an open field that served as a tree nursery with millions of densely packed tree starts meant to reforest the surrounding land clear cut by miners and pioneers establishing the valley below.

Scientists say thinning forests won’t help the Great Salt Lake. Here’s how they know.

02-13-2023 by Leia Larsen

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Standard-Examiner

This screengrab of a map from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service website shows that the snow-water equivalent in the Weber River basin amounted to 150% of the 30-year average as of Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023.

Weber Basin official: Snowfall should fill reservoirs, boost Great Salt Lake

02-12-2023 by Tim Vandenack

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Fox 13

Why strategic forest thinning won't help save the Great Salt Lake

02-12-2023 by Jenna Bree

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Fox 13

Students perform dance to raise awareness to shrinking Great Salt Lake

02-12-2023 by Mythili Gubbi

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Fox 13

Bill bans HOAs from requiring lush, green lawns

02-12-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Bill requiring golf courses to publish water use held in committee for second time

02-10-2023 by Alexis Perno

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KSL.com

Snow-covered pine trees are pictured in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Millcreek on Jan. 12. The Great Salt Lake Strike Team issued a report Wednesday that finds the benefit of thinning forests is "unclear" but also "likely to be minimal." (Laura Seitz, Deseret News)

There are benefits to thinning trees — but it can't solve the Great Salt Lake's water woes

02-09-2023 by Carter Williams

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Former chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation Darren Parry speaks at a "Rally to Save Our Great Salt Lake" at the Capitol building in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023.

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

02-09-2023 by Leia Larsen

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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

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Angel Moroni atop The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Bountiful Temple is shown in December 2022 with the shriveling Great Salt Lake in the background. A dying Great Salt Lake could make the historic home of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uninhabitable. What is the Utah-based faith doing to prevent it — and what do environmentalists think it should do?

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

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

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KSL.com

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

02-08-2023 by Carter Williams

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Fox 13

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

02-08-2023 by Ben Winslow

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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

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Fox 13

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

02-06-2023 by Ben Winslow

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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

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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

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Fox 13

Cox issues emergency order to raise Great Salt Lake causeway berm

02-04-2023 by Ben Winslow

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KSL.com

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

02-03-2023 by Carter Williams

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Construction of North Davis Sewer District's new pipeline along the Antelope Island causeway on Tuesday, May 31, 2022.

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

02-03-2023 by Leia Larsen

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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

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Fox 13

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

02-03-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Bill creating water conservation nonprofit passes House committee

02-02-2023 by Alexis Perno

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

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

02-01-2023 by Emma Keddington

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Fox 13

Small caucus of Utah lawmakers will push Great Salt Lake bills

02-01-2023 by Ben Winslow

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KSL.com

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

02-01-2023 by Carter Williams

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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

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Fox 13

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

01-30-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Fox 13

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

01-29-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Utah Public Radio (UPR)

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

01-27-2023 by Aimee Van Tatenhove

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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

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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

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Deseret News

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

01-26-2023 by Kyle Dunphey and Kailey Gilbert

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KSL.com

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

01-25-2023 by Carter Williams

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Fox 13

Bills begin to be introduced to save the Great Salt Lake

01-25-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Bill may help water conservation efforts

01-20-2023 by Alexis Perno

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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

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Committee approves Great Salt Lake license plate

01-20-2023 by Alexis Perno

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Fox 13

'Celebrating small wins;' Great Salt Lake rises a foot since historic low

01-18-2023 by Jeff Tavvs

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Salt Lake Tribune

Scientists sounded the alarm about the Great Salt Lake. Are lawmakers listening?

01-18-2023 by Leia Larsen

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Fox 13

Will Utahns get paid more green for their grass?

01-15-2023 by Ben Winslow

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KSL-TV

Great Salt Lake tour showcases the shrinking lake and what is being uncovered

01-14-2023 by Alex Cabrero

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Fox 13

'On my watch we are not allowing the lake to go dry,' Utah's governor says of Great Salt Lake

01-13-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Fox 13

Researchers, environmental groups call for 'emergency rescue' of Great Salt Lake

01-11-2023 by Ben Winslow

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Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Shorebird population health tied to saline lakes across western hemisphere

01-08-2023 by Aimee Van Tatenhove

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Salt Lake Tribune

Great Salt Lake set to vanish in 5 years, experts warn Utah lawmakers

01-05-2023 by Leia Larsen

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Salt Lake Tribune

Dear Legislature: Here’s what you can do in 2023 to save the Great Salt Lake

01-03-2023 by Sofia Jeremias and Leia Larsen

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Salt Lake Tribune

Utah DEQ denies US Magnesium’s request to extend water canals deeper into the Great Salt Lake

12-29-2022 by Leia Larsen

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KUER

‘Mother Earth cries’ but hope remains for the Great Salt Lake, says poet

12-29-2022 by Ciara Hulet

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KUER

Utah author pens a tale of parental anxiety that parallels a drying Great Salt Lake

12-28-2022 by Pamela McCall

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KSL.com

The Great Salt Lake wetlands near Corinne, Box Elder County, on July 13. Congress passed a bill Monday that helps fund studies of saline lakes in Great Basin states, like the Great Salt Lake, over the next five years. It's up to President Joe Biden to sign it. (Ben B. Braun, Deseret News)

Bill that sets up federal funding for studies of the Great Salt Lake heads to Biden's desk

12-27-2022 by Carter Williams

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Salt Lake Tribune

Will December’s big storms make a difference for the Great Salt Lake?

12-23-2022 by Leia Larsen

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KSL.com

What's the value in new funding for studies on the Great Salt Lake, other saline lakes?

12-19-2022 by Carter Williams

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KUER

Utah’s population boom could further strain its limited water

12-18-2022 by Saige Miller KUER

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Fox 13

Reports call for more water saving measures and help for the Great Salt Lake

12-15-2022 by Ben Winslow

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Salt Lake Tribune

One crop uses more than half of Utah’s water. Here’s why.

12-15-2022 by Brian Maffly and Mark Eddington

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Salt Lake Tribune

‘We must do whatever is necessary’: Mitt Romney’s bill funding study of Great Salt Lake sails through Senate

12-08-2022 by Leia Larsen

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KSL.com

Why Utah is updating its answers to common questions about the Great Salt Lake

12-07-2022 by Carter Williams

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The Globe

U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, Utah State Rep. Joel Ferry and Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson tour the Great Salt Lake by fan boat, Aug. 19, 2022. (Spenser Heaps, Deseret News)

Lake questions: Does greater salinity lead to more evaporation in the Salt Lake?

12-07-2022 by McCaulee Blackburn

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Fox 13

Emergency water releases going into the Great Salt Lake

12-07-2022 by Ben Winslow

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KUER

Will time run out on Romney’s bill to fund research to save the Great Salt Lake?

12-06-2022 by Saige Miller KUER

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Salt Lake Tribune

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Super heated waters bubble to the surface on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, on the Bear River near Preston, Idaho, the site of the Bear River Massacre in which a village of Shoshone were attacked in 1863 and experienced the largest slaughter of Indigenous people in the nation’s history. Recently the Shoshone acquired the site with plans to turn it into a place of healing.

The Great Salt Lake’s most important source of water has a troubled history. But there is hope its future may be better.

12-06-2022 by Leia Larsen

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Fox 13

Utah looks to expand cloud seeding to help with drought, Great Salt Lake

12-06-2022 by Ben Winslow

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The Globe

Lake questions: Can we bring water from the ocean to the Salt Lake?

12-02-2022 by McCaulee Blackburn

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Fox 13

Bill upending how Utahns pay for water gets dammed up in the legislature

12-02-2022 by Ben Winslow

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Fox 13

To help the Great Salt Lake, Utah may pay farmers to not grow crops

11-28-2022 by Ben Winslow

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KSL-TV

Antelope Island on life support due to shrinking Great Salt Lake, experts say

11-28-2022 by Dan Spindle

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Salt Lake Tribune

Gov. Cox put new water rights on hold. Will it actually help the Great Salt Lake?

11-28-2022 by Leia Larsen

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Fox 13

Great Salt Lake levels stabilize — for now

11-22-2022 by Ben Winslow

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Salt Lake Tribune

The Great Salt Lake’s ecological collapse has begun

11-20-2022 by Leia Larsen

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Fox 13

Cox issues proclamation cutting off some water diversions to help the Great Salt Lake

11-18-2022 by Ben Winslow

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KSL.com

New initiative aims to get people to 'fall in love' with the Great Salt Lake again

11-18-2022 by Carter Williams

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Fox 13

New research and initiatives to help save the Great Salt Lake

11-18-2022 by Ben Winslow

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Deseret News

Competing news outlets are working together to save the Great Salt Lake. Is it working?

11-18-2022 by McKenzie Romero

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KSL.com

Students get expansive Great Salt Lake experience

11-17-2022 by Sydnee Gonzales

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