The Great Salt Lake is at its lowest levels since record-keeping began in 1847. The good news is there is a lot of agreement about what needs to be done to save it: keep water flowing into it. While the WHAT is simple, the HOW is … more complicated. In this episode, we get a spectrum of perspectives about the future of the lake from a lawmaker, a scientist, an activist and a poet.
Guests:
- Jaimi Butler, brine shrimp biologist with the Great Salt Lake Institute, Westminster College
- Nan Seymour, poet
- Rep. Tim Hawkes, R-Centerville
- Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council
Recommended Reading and Listening:
- The State And Fate Of The Great Salt Lake
- The State And Fate Of The Great Salt Lake, Part II
- The State and Fate of the Great Salt Lake, Part III
- Speaker Wilson's summit sounds a rallying cry to save the Great Salt Lake
- To combat low Great Salt Lake levels, lawmaker proposes new water use rules
- Declining Water Levels In The Great Salt Lake Spell Economic Trouble For Utah
- Dire drought conditions dominate Utah’s environmental landscape in 2021