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FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake has been educating our community and advocating for the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem since 1994. Our website contains vital research and information that will help you understand how to preserve and protect one of Utah's most unique natural resources and one of the Western Hemisphere's most important nesting, resting and staging sites for millions of migratory birds.

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Short-Term Cycling of Methylmercury in Waters Discharging into GSL Wetlands

Recent biogeochemical assessments of Great Salt Lake wetlands and open water have found elevated levels of methylmercury in the water and biota. David L. Naftz and David P. Krabbenhoft of USGS recently undertook a study to investigate the short-term cycling of methylmercury in water discharging from the Howard Slough State Waterfowl Management Area. The researchers found that the concentration of methylmercury decreased during daylight hours. Read the pdf

paper that was presented during the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (October, 2009).

Great Salt Lake Minerals Final Scoping Report

Bio-West, the EIS contractor working with the Army Corps of Engineers on the Great Salt Lake Minerals Expansion project, has released the Final Scoping Report.
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Water Study by the League of Women Voters of Utah

It is generally agreed that in the future the state will see less water and more people. The League believes that the decisions we make in the next few years will shape both the human and natural environment for the rest of this century and beyond. This water study is concerned with accounting for our water and how we manage it.
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Weather, Climate, & Society: Bear River Basin Drought

A group of researchers from Utah State University and Kansas State University recently published an article in the journal Water, Climate & Society concerning the public's response to drought in the Bear River Basin in 2004.