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Great Salt Lake dust events, Utah ozone issues get monitoring money
March 15th 2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Utah’s pollution problems get a state funding boost to help clear the skies The Utah Air Quality Division’s technical team will begin reviewing strategic locations for the placement of four new dust...
Shift in Utah water law could be ‘game changer’ for the Great Salt Lake
March 9th 2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Utah Farm Bureau says new law is a game changer in agricultural water use Critics panned the Utah Legislature for failing to set a target elevation for the Great Salt Lake via a nonbinding resolutio...
New analysis says Great Salt Lake can be saved, but not without great effort, and expense
February 9th 2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Even in ‘wet’ years, conservation, policy changes are paramount to restore the lake Life as usual cannot go on in northern Utah if the state wants to replenish the Great Salt Lake to an ideal elevat...
The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, but habitat work means more birds
February 3rd 2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
A growing bird count over 3 years defines success, defies GSL drought The 22-year drought in Utah has been the harbinger of bad news, with everything from the Great Salt Lake dropping to a historic...
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Utah lawmakers: ‘We are not going to let our state go dry on our watch’
January 31st 2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Legislators commit to spending a half billion or more on Utah’s water It took more than 150 years since pioneers first arrived in Utah to drop the level of the Great Salt Lake by 11 feet with develo...
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Utah lawmakers unveil two pieces of ‘historic’ legislation for the Great Salt Lake
January 26th 2023 by Kyle Dunphey and Kailey Gilbert / Deseret News
Utah lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled two pieces of legislation aimed at helping the Great Salt Lake that advocates are calling “historic.” One is a resolution that sets a concrete goal for improving...
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Competing news outlets are working together to save the Great Salt Lake. Is it working?
November 18th 2022 by McKenzie Romero / Deseret News
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...
The memory of Great Salt Lake runs deep, even if the water doesn’t
October 24th 2022 by McKenzie Romero / Deseret News
Why Utah reporters are teaming up with their competitors to tell the lake’s stories — and search for solutions At 98 years old, Alice Telford has known the Great Salt Lake longer than most, with mem...
Why isn't the state monitoring Great Salt Lake's dust?
October 12th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Is Utah behind the curve when it comes to dust mitigation from the drying Great Salt Lake? Owens Lake in California, once the nation’s largest source of dust pollution, has nine monitoring stations...
Can the Great Salt Lake and its dust pollution derail Utah military operations? Officials look for answers.
October 12th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Lone Pine, Calif — At Owens Lake in California, once the nation’s most notorious site for dust pollution so intense you could taste it in your mouth, the mission of the nation’s largest on-land naval...
Five things to know about Owens Lake
October 10th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
what makes Owens Lake in California different, but similar to Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Like Owens Lake, the Great Salt Lake is a terminal saline lake in the Great Basin. The basin covers more than...
The saline lakes of the Great Basin and why they are in trouble
October 9th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
This Great Salt Lake Collaborative story is part of day one of our series, “At water’s edge: Searching for solutions at the Great Salt Lake’s sister lakes across the Great Basin.” The in-depth project...
Poll: How worried are Utahns about the Great Salt Lake?
September 29th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
The declining water levels at the Great Salt Lake and what it may mean for Utah’s future have a majority of Utah residents concerned about its condition, and they are willing to have lawmakers throw m...
Can mimicking beavers help save the Great Salt Lake?
August 26th 2022 by Jacob Klopfenstein / Deseret News
About five years ago, Willy Stockman’s home on the bank of Emigration Creek became a wildlife hot spot. In the summers of 2017 and 2018, elk, coyotes and turkeys started showing up in her backyard...
What Sen. Mitt Romney, House Speaker Brad Wilson saw on the Great Salt Lake
August 18th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
To save the Great Salt Lake, its complex ecosystem and its value to the state of Utah and the West, one has to know the Great Salt Lake. To that end, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and state House S...
House Speaker Brad Wilson: ‘We are just getting started’ saving the Great Salt Lake
August 2nd 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Against the backdrop of lush marshes whistling along the shores of the Great Salt Lake at Farmington Bay, Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson worried the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere is a...
How duck hunters, wetlands and conservation help the Great Salt Lake
July 21st 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Conservation of Great Salt Lake wetlands dates back to the late 1800s. Now it’s more important than ever Hunting is about more than just killing, it is about saving. Shortly after the Civil War, p...
What Mitt Romney wants to do to help save Utah’s Great Salt Lake
July 14th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
New measure explores ways to get more water to the lake, adds more money With the Great Salt Lake dropping to its new historic low this summer and projected to decline even more before year’s end, t...
How Bear Lake pumps millions of dollars into Utah, and what it might mean for Great Salt Lake
June 29th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
A new study reveals visitors to Bear Lake last summer pumped $48 million into the northern Utah region during more than a million days and nights of visitation. That is a ton of money in a rural are...
What U. President Taylor Randall hopes to learn about the Great Salt Lake
June 23rd 2022 by Marjorie Cortez / Deseret News
With the picturesque Farmington Bay as a backdrop, state legislative leaders, the president of the state’s flagship university, academics, scientists and advocates shared ideas about the next steps to...
Can you swim in Utah’s Great Salt Lake? These people do it every year
June 18th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
‘You either love it or you hate it, there’s no in between,’ one swimmer says Forget about the bugs. They are only with you for a little bit on this journey. As intrepid water enthusiasts took to t...
Can this technology be an answer to farmland water use in the West?
June 6th 2022 by Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News & Dan Spindle, KSL TV / Deseret News
From seed to livestock feed in 5 days with minimal water Rod Magnuson has a nice spread in rural Utah, raising cattle and alfalfa in an operation that is the backbone of a fourth-generation legacy s...
‘Water is not going to magically appear,’ says Interior’s Tanya Trujillo
May 20th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
How money can help the West navigate the water supply issue of drought Communities across the West and elsewhere in the country are tapping more than 660 million reasons to boost the integrity of wa...
Will horrific drought make lawns in the West a memory?
May 4th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Southern Nevada prohibits ‘ornamental’ turf in some areas By 2027, more than 5,000 acres of what are deemed useless or simply ornamental turf will be ripped out of the Las Vegas Valley in what is th...
Why a dry Chilean lagoon matters to the future of the Great Salt Lake
April 21st 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Back in its heyday, the shoreline of the Great Salt Lake boasted multiple resorts offering dining, dancing, concerts, picnic pavilions, a bowling alley. Thousands swarmed these resorts for entertainme...
Could Utah children help shape the destiny of the ailing Great Salt Lake?
April 20th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Studies show link between youth education, protecting nature To save the Great Salt Lake is to know its worth. To know its worth is to be educated about why it matters. For 16 years, The Nature Co...
Deseret News joins Solutions Network collaborative focused on Great Salt Lake
March 7th 2022 by McKenzie Romero / Deseret News
They say a rising tide lifts all boats. But if we’re hoping to lift any boats in the Great Salt Lake, we’re going to need a lot of help. Utah’s salty stalwart, the unique and often misunderstood e...
It was the year of the Great Salt Lake for Utah lawmakers, but was it enough? Here’s what experts have to say
March 6th 2022 by Kyle Dunphey / Deseret News
‘I couldn’t be happier,’ Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said of lawmakers’ efforts in the 2022 Utah Legislative Session For Utah lawmakers, it was the year of the Great Salt Lake. After being accused of ye...
Is it too late to save the diminishing Great Salt Lake?
March 6th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Advocates, researchers and others intimately acquainted with the Great Salt Lake have watched with dread over the last two decades as it has steadily dwindled to a trickle of its former self. Its ai...
Will a $40M trust save the Great Salt Lake? Lawmakers hope so
February 18th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Utah legislative committee unanimously endorses measure A committee of Utah lawmakers on Friday unanimously approved a measure that would infuse $40 million worth of solutions into helping the ailin...
‘It really hit home how bad it is’: Utah lawmakers get aerial tour of Great Salt Lake
February 15th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Blackhawk tour highlights ‘shocking’ condition of lake A group of Utah legislators flew over the shrinking Great Salt Lake early Tuesday morning to see just how badly it is diminishing due to drough...
Concern over Utah’s drought high, snowpack diminishing during dry spell
February 1st 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Forecast says Utah and the West look to remain in drought A new poll shows an overwhelming majority of Utah residents are concerned about the drought and a mostly dry January isn’t doing much to eas...
The proposed plan to save the Great Salt Lake from drought
January 25th 2022 by Kyle Dunphey / Deseret News
A new bill unveiled Tuesday would establish unprecedented guidelines for how Utah should respond to its shrinking Great Salt Lake. Lake Mead, Lake Powell and the Great Salt Lake all hit record lows...
What you need to know about water in Utah and why you should care
January 24th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
Management is complex in one of the nation’s driest states Utah’s use of water and the delivery systems that get the finite resource to the tap, farms, fields and landscaping is likely to be front a...
Saving the ‘otherworldly’ place of Utah’s declining inland sea
January 4th 2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
First Great Salt Lake Summit strives for solutions Brad Wilson, a bunch of other folks and a dog named Max took to the waters of the Great Salt Lake on airboats one recent December morning. Wilso...
Great Salt Lake: A lake no more?
February 10th 2018 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue / Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — There are two things the waters of the Great Salt Lake and agricultural lands have in common: they are both in steady, rapid decline. A three-day forum hosted by Friends of the Grea...
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