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(Photo: Great Salt Lake Strike Team) Those behind the report say they'd still like to focus on collaboration between water users, but Ferry said the 770,000 acre-feet is more of a "perfect-world ...
A photo of an old boat harbor by the Great Salt Lake shoreline taken sometime between 1940 and 1960. The lake reached an all-time low in 1963, which remained a record until 2021.
Before 2021, the Great Salt Lake’s record low was 4,191.35 feet, measured in October 1963. Because the lake is large but shallow, a decline of even a few feet can expose vast stretches of lakebed.
The Great Salt Lake #Utah, 1985 – 2021 showing its high of 4,211.65 ft. ASL, 1986 to its record low of 4191.3 in 2021. #GEE script can be modified to any area in the world. #Landsat #USGS # ...
Two years ago, the Great Salt Lake became an omen for the risks of climate change: The water level dropped to a record low, threatening the ecosystem, economy and even the air quality of the area ...
The map was marked with airline routes radiating from Salt Lake City. “It had all the cool cities, London, Paris, and my hometown, Great Falls,” Wirth said.
A mirabilite mound at the Great Salt Lake Photo: Bryant Olsen (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Great Salt Lake is no stranger to geological shifts, especially as droughts have become more rampant throughout ...
PHOTOS: Great Salt Lake's rare salt formations are like those found on Mars The causeway stretches for 20 miles across the ...
State of Utah Department of Natural Resources park ranger Angelic Lemmon walks across reef-like structures called microbialites, exposed by receding waters, at the Great Salt Lake, near Salt Lake ...
SALT LAKE CITY—Darin Christensen was working on his boat docked in the Great Salt Lake, preparing for something he hadn’t been able to do the past two years: take it out in the water. “You ...
The Great Salt Lake in Utah has dropped to its lowest level on record for the second time in less than a year as a climate change-fueled megadrought tightens its grip in the West.
Utah leaders are under pressure to end water diversions and enforce tougher restrictions in order save the drying Great Salt Lake. A recent report predicted it will completely dry in five years.