Friends of Great Salt Lake

Visitors on Silver Sands Beach at Great Salt Lake State Park, near Magna, stand on rocks jutting out into the iconic saline lake with Antelope Island seen in the background, Jan. 27, 2024.

Politics & Government

These are the 2024 policy wins for Utah’s Great Salt Lake

Saige Miller

The Utah Legislature honed in on small policy changes rather than a massive overhaul of water law.

Gunnison Island, a key breeding ground for American White Pelicans in the northwest corner of the Great Salt Lake, as seen from the air, Aug. 3, 2022.

Politics & Government

2 Utah Dems want to funnel more water and money into the Great Salt Lake

Saige Miller

The proposed policies from Sen. Nate Blouin and Rep. Joel Briscoe are backed by water conservation advocacy groups.

Vincent Mattina’s sound collage, “41.115791 -112.476830,” represents a timeline of the life of the Great Salt Lake, including the lake’s potential collapse. After a loud cacophony signifying human impact, the sound of water represents water draining from the lake. Mattina compared it to “blood seeping from a wound.”

Science & Environment

A Utah artist imagines the life of the Great Salt Lake from birth to the brink

Pamela McCall

Utah artist Vincent Mattina’s sound collage won a first place award in this year’s Alfred Lambourne Arts Program, an annual exhibition of artwork hosted by Friends of Great Salt Lake.

Persisting drought conditions continue to drop water levels at the Great Salt Lake exposing reeflike structures made up of calcium and magnesium carbonate deposits called bioherms that resemble coral as seen on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.

News Briefs

AM Brief: Cox wants visas for Ukrainian refugees, Great Salt Lake water rights & state health care committee

KUER News

The latest Utah news for Friday morning, Mar. 18, 2022

Science & Environment

Low Water Has High Potential Impact On Great Salt Lake Ecosystems, Economy

Judy Fahys

Low water on the Great Salt Lake is raising concern. The worries are economic and ecological as the water dips close to the lowest level it’s ever…

Science & Environment

State Chooses Western-Most Parcel For Prison Site

Whittney Evans

State officials have narrowed down the specific parcel of land where Utah’s new state prison will be built. But some environmentalists say they need more…

Science & Environment

Causeway Could Be the Key to Controlling the Great Salt Lake

The railroad causeway across the Great Salt Lake was built in 1959, and since then it’s permanently altered the lake’s natural water flow. Making changes…