Here’s how the Salt Lake Tribune described The Great Salt Lake in naming the lake as its 2021 Utahn of the Year: “Drought and increasing diversions of water from upstream have left the Great Salt Lake less great. … It is smaller and shallower than it has been in the time since European settlers first started keeping records. … Its level is 10 feet below what has long been considered normal. Antelope Island is not really an island any more…” UPR is a member of the Great Salt Lake collaborative, which is seeking solutions to the problem. Today, in a special Member Drive edition of the program, we’ll talk with Wayne Wurtsbaugh, USU Emeritus Professor of Watershed Sciences; Bonnie Baxter, Professor of Biology at Westminster College; Jaimi Butler, Great Salt Lake Institute Coordinator at Westminster College; and UPR science reporter and USU graduate student Aimee Van Tatenhove.
Great Salt Lake member drive special on Monday's Access Utah
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