Every two years, FRIENDS hosts a Great Salt Lake Issues Forum. The Forum provides an opportunity for the Great Salt Lake community to engage in constructive dialogue about the Lake, the future of its ecosystem and its resources.
     The Forum also brings together conservation resources at work regionally, nationally and hemispherically to build partnerships and advance conservation practices and policies for the Lake.

Visit the 2012 Issues Forum Conference website for more information about the Forum held on May 10-11, 2012.

Previous Issues Forums:

Video from the 2010 Issues Forum is available here.
Additional information from 2010 is available on the 2010 conference website. (please note, this website is from 2010 only; it does not apply to the 2012 conference)

Our 2008 Issues Forum was combined into a joint conference with the International Society for Salt Lake Research. Scientific researchers from around the planet discussed research and programs that help all of us better understand these unique systems. Over 209 people registered to attend the 2008conference and by all accounts, it was a great success.  To view the conference website point your browser to:  www.isslr.org/GSL2008/in/

To view a copy of the abstract for all the presenters at the 2008 conference you can download them here:    jointconferenceabstracts 1.24 Mb To view the 2008 conference program listing all of the talks, activities and field trips, you can download them here:   JointConferencePROGRAM 1.92 Mb

PICTURES of our week are posted on a web gallery.  Please go to http://gallery.mac.com/rdef#100063

Pictured here is Ittai Gavrieli wading in GSL during the mid-conference field trip to Antelope Island State park on 14 May 2008.  Mr. Gavrieli is Senior Research Scientist, Geochemistry & Hydrogeology, Geological Survey of Isreal.