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This map shows every country that had a visitor who signed the Great Salt Lake State Park visitor log in 2024. (Photo: Great Salt Lake State Park) People from six of the world's seven continents ...
With science-based management and real-time data, Utah’s brine shrimp fishery balances the economy and ecology.
I have known Great Salt Lake in flood and now in drought, between her highest level, at 4,211.8 feet in 1987, and her lowest, at 4,188.5 feet in 2022. Maps and newspapers call her the Great Salt ...
A Great Salt Lake Strike Team report released earlier this year found human and natural water consumption caused 73% of the lake’s current dire state, while climate change and natural variation ...
Utah's Great Salt Lake. Footen, who works for a company called Earthviews that creates maps of aquatic and terrestrial environments, noticed how much conditions have worsened. "So 30 years ago, we ...
This is bad news for Utah, as not only does the Great Salt Lake provide water for 85 percent of the state's agriculture, but as it dries out and its water levels recede, the lakebed is whipped up ...
Great Salt Lake dust isn’t being measured accurately. ... She described the Tellus network, which Salt Lake County makes easy to use through a map, as “low-cost.” ...
Utah’s Great Salt Lake is the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere. Since the 1980s, the lake has shrunk by two-thirds, and is projected to disappear entirely in the next five years. If ...
The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the largest body of water in the western hemisphere without an outlet to the sea. Its levels fluctuate naturally, but scientists say the record-low water levels the ...
The Great Salt Lake, once the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, sticks out on maps of the United States as a large spot of blue in the West ...
The shrinking Great Salt Lake presents an economic (more than $2 billion a year, the report noted), ecological and public health crisis. It dropped to its lowest levels in 2022 attributed to ...