Great Salt Lake Collaborative
  • News
    • Latest News
    • Solutions from Owens and Mono Lakes
    • Solutions from Las Vegas
  • Anthology
  • Resources
    • Video Library
    • Lake Facts
    • Timelapse
    • Great Salt Lake Questions
    • Great Salt Lake Voices
    • Reporting Project: Mono and Owens Lakes
  • About
  • Get Involved
  • Newsletter
  • Search

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

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...

Read more …

 


 

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

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...

Read more …

 


 

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

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...

Read more …

 


 

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

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...

Read more …

 


 

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...

Read more …

 


 

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...

Read more …

 


 

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...

Read more …

 


 

A panoramic photo shows the sun setting over the Great Salt Lake on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. This photo was made with a drone which stitched together multiple photos, creating a single one.Ben B. Braun, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, shows journalists a tube that collects fine particulate, one measure of how much is being blown around in the wind, at an air quality monitoring site on the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono County, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Maj. Kristin “Beo” Wolfe flies during an F-35A Lightning II demonstration team show at Hill Air Force Base near Layton on Friday, June 3, 2022. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Arrash Agahi, who oversees regulatory compliance of Owens Lake for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, looks at an area of the lakebed that has been converted to a brine pool to reduce blowing dust while giving journalists a tour of the project area on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

The rising sun reflects off of pools of water and brine that are part of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program on the mostly dry lakebed in Inyo County, California, on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Izabel and Mary LePique take photos at the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022.Ben B. Braun, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Rose Smith, Sageland Collaborative stream ecologist, talks about a beaver dam analog in Corner Canyon Creek in Draper on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. The structures were built to raise the water table and create a more conducive habitat for native riparian and wetland vegetation.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

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...

Read more …

 


 

Record low water levels are seen in the Great Salt Lake by the Antelope Island marina on Friday, July 22, 2022. State leaders are working on solutions to help restore the lake. Photo: Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Carroll Dolson, a member of the Chesapeake Duck Club near Corinne, Box Elder County, prepares his boat club on Wednesday, July 13, 2022.Ben B. Braun, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

The Great Salt Lake State Park on Friday, June 10, 2022. Water levels at the Great Salt Lake are continuing to reach record lows due to drought.Laura Seitz, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Christine Ray pushes daughter Bonnie Ray on a paddle board at Bear Lake’s Rendezvous Beach in Rich County on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. 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.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, left, shakes hand with University of Utah President Taylor Randall at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Wildlife Education Center in Farmington on Thursday, June 23, 2022, before a roundtable discussion on issues concerning the Great Salt Lake.Mengshin Lin, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

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.Laura Seitz, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Rod Magnuson examines his Hydrogreen feed growing operation at his ranch in Castle Dale, Emery County. The new technology transforms seed into feed within a matter of days and uses less than one-tenth of the water required for traditional alfalfa fields. With drought and the escalating cost of alfalfa, Magnuson said he turned to this technique to continue his family’s legacy of ranching.Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

One of two Arthur V. Watkins Dam siphon pipes that will be replaced with a direct outlet pipe is visible in Willard Bay’s low water levels in Box Elder County on Friday, May 20, 2022. The purpose of both the existing siphon pipes and future delivery conduit is to move fresh water from Willard Bay to the pictured canal that supplies several industrial customers.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

‘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...

Read more …

 


 

Traffic passes a grassy landscape on Green Valley Parkway in suburban Henderson, Nev., on April 9, 2021. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed legislation on June 4, 2021, to make the state the first in the nation to ban certain kinds of grass. The measure banned water users in southern Nevada from planting decorative grass in an effort to conserve water.Ken Ritter, Associated Press

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...

Read more …

 


 

Will Munger, a doctoral student in Utah State University in the Department of Environment and Society, poses for a photo along Emigration Creek in Wasatch Hollow Preserve in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 15, 2022.Scott G Winterton, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Students from Creekside Elementary explore the marshes at the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve as part of The Nature Conservancy’s Wings & Water program in Layton on Wednesday, April 20, 2022.Laura Seitz, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Visitors to Silver Sand Beach at the Great Salt Lake Marina are reflected on still water as they walk around during a rainstorm on Aug. 18, 2021.  Shafkat Anowar, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

Three Black Hawk helicopters from the Utah Army National Guard carrying Utah lawmakers lift off from the south lawn of the Capitol in Salt Lake City for an aerial tour of the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022.  Scott G Winterton, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

The Great Salt Lake as seen on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Advocates, researchers and others are concerned about the future of the lake.  Scott G Winterton, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

The Great Salt Lake’s low water levels are visible from the air on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. A committee of lawmakers on Friday unanimously approved a measure that would infuse $40 million worth of solutions into helping the ailing lake. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

A Blackhawk helicopter flies over the Great Salt Lake as Utah lawmakers take an aerial tour of the Great Salt Lake with the Utah Army National Guard. The group left from the Capitol in Salt Lake City Utah on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022.

‘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...

Read more …

 


 

Water runs out of Tibble Fork Reservoir in American Fork Canyon on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022.

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...

Read more …

 


 

Low water levels are pictured in the Great Salt Lake near Tooele County on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022.

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...

Read more …

 


 

What you need to know about water in Utah and why you should care

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...

Read more …

 


 

Low water levels are pictured in the Great Salt Lake near Tooele County on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

The shores of the Great Salt Lake on the southwest side of Antelope Island are pictured on Thursday, May 10, 2018 Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

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...

Read more …

 


 

 

Page 1 of 4

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
 

GSLC logo white

 

Stay up to date with our newsletter

Subscribe

© 2023 Great Salt Lake Collaborative
A Solutions Journalism Project
Stories copyright their respective publishers, used by permission.

 Facebook   Instagram

 

Site by Third Sun