Brian Steed

There is a new exhibit at the USU Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art called Facing Fire: Art, Wildlife and the End of Nature in the New West. Last Saturday, a cross-disciplinary panel of artists from the exhibit, policy makers, and a firefighter discussed fire in the west, and we're joined by three of those panelists today.

We're joined by Brian Steed, newly-appointed Great Salt Lake commissioner. We’ll talk about the future of the lake, how much our recent record-breaking winter helps, and what we can do.

The Utah Senate confirmed Brian Steed's appointment as Great Salt Lake commissioner on Wednesday, June 14. The vote (28) was unanimous with one senator absent from voting.

In other news, Brian Steed was unanimously confirmed by a Utah Senate committee as Great Salt Lake Commissioner, and the Utah Attorney General is pushing for the HALT Fentanyl Act to be passed.

Brian Steed, executive director of the Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah State University, met with members of the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, where he shared his optimism and concerns for the lake.

In other news, Gov. Cox appointed the first Great Salt Lake commissioner to plan how to maintain and preserve the lake.

On this episode we discuss the new documentary film 'Stewart Udall and the Politics of Beauty', and are joined by filmaker John de Graaf, and Brian Steed, Executive Director of the USU Quinney Institute of Land, Water, and Air.

Utah’s research universities, along with partners in state government, have joined in a partnership to analyze and share best available data and research on Great Salt Lake’s declining water levels. We’ll talk about it on this episode of Access Utah.

The Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air annual report will be presented to Utah Governor Spencer Cox on Thursday in Salt Lake City.

Our guest for the hour on Tuesday’s Access Utah is Brian Steed, the new Executive Director of the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water and Air at Utah State University.