Lake Effect
Heard during Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
What does Great Salt Lake mean to you?
After reaching a historic low last summer, Great Salt Lake has been receiving much-needed attention as groups work to address its ongoing shrinkage. Our ongoing series Lake Effect shares stories from Utahns about how Great Salt Lake has affected them. This series will highlight individuals’ relationships with Utah’s inland sea.
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A teen draws comparisons on mortality and demise of the Great Salt Lake -
An excerpt from the book, 'In the Temple of the Stars' by Margaret Pettis -
"You save what you love. We have to fight with our brains and our hearts and our science, and we'll sacrifice to save it." -
PhD student at Utah State University's Department of Watershed Sciences Molly Blakowski reflects on the Great Salt Lake's future. -
Poet and activist Nan Seymour tells the story of the vigil that was kept this past winter and the poem that resulted from a community who was willing to show up at the lake shore and bear witness to this essential heart of our ecosystem. -
"When you get into the lake, it's like floating. There's so much salt in it, you float up. And it’s just really magical. It's like you’re in some sort of heaven. It's like that until after a while, it begins to dry, and you get salt all over you and you have to get out." -
John Luft is the program manager for the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program, which manages the lake's brine shrimp fishery. He describes himself as a "sea monkey biologist." -
Ronald Woolley, president of Woolley Engineering Research, says it "wouldn't be cheap to do a pipeline from the Gulf of California, but it would be reasonable especially compared to the cost of not doing anything." -
"I think [the lakes are] just embedded in our cultural heritage. They've been around for a really long time. People really care about them and they want to see them there. They don't want to see them disappear." -
Alireza's song "Water to Survive/Save the Great Salt Lake" was inspired by a lawn sign in the Salt Lake area that read, "water to survive, not thrive."
