Executive Director's Message
Timely, Generous and Just—Keeping Water in Great Salt Lake is the Right Thing to Do
“Unless people start caring and start acting, the Great Salt Lake will only be in increasing danger of, quite literally, drying up and blowing away.” -Salt Lake Tribune Editorial, No Lake City (8/28/20). We live along the shores of something GREAT – Great Salt Lake. This is still the case…
Great Salt Lake in the time of Godzilla
“It really does all start today.” –Jeff Denbleyker, Project Manager and Water Resources Engineer, Jacobs March 22: It was time to take a break from Zoom meetings, conference calls, emails and other online work. Time to take a break from vacuuming behind all of these books on bookshelves and weeding…
If Wishes Were Brine Shrimp, Legacy Parkway Would Remain a Beacon of Transportation Inspiration and Community Connectivity Not Just Another Freeway
“This is an exciting day for our state, with tremendous positive impact for the state’s economy, the environment and its transportation system.” -Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signing the agreement in principle on the Legacy Parkway, September 21, 2005 (Deseret News 9/22/2005 Legacy Parkway Gets Green Light) On January 1, 2020, the Legacy…
The Great Salt Lake Geopolitical Landscape, Water, and the Shapes of Things to Come
The Great Salt Lake Geopolitical Landscape, Water, and the Shapes of Things to Come “Order! Order! Order!” – Betty Boothroid, first female Speaker of the British House of Commons, 1992-2000 Has it been that long ago since the gavel-to-gavel 63rd Legislative Session occurred? It seems like only yesterday that the…
Proposal for Union Pacific Railroad Communal Track to Serve Promontory Point Industries Lacks Necessary Details and Raises Red Flags
Proposal for Union Pacific Railroad Communal Track to Serve Promontory Point Industries Lacks Necessary Details and Raises Red Flags “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” The Wizard of Oz On August 7th, 2018, the Union Pacific Railroad (Union Pacific) submitted partial information to the Army Corps of…
The Responsibility to Sustain the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem in Perpetuity Falls Squarely on the Shoulders of the State of Utah
Executive Director's Message – Summer 2018 “The Lake is as essential to who we are and what we are as anything. When Great Salt Lake is in peril, the state is in peril. “ –Warren Peterson, State Water Strategy Advisory Team Co-chair On March 23, 2018, water right application No.…
The Beat Goes On – And So Must We With Our Continuing Vigilance to Protect Great Salt Lake
Executive Director's Message – Spring 2018 “Here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into. “ Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel (Laurel & Hardy) On February 16, 2018 – just short of a year into the process – Promontory Point Resources LLC (PPR) withdrew its application for a Class V Permit,…
Adjacent Land Use Matters for Great Salt Lake
Winter 2018 -Executive Director’s Message- “UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” - The Lorax The lay of the land- Less than 20 miles from Gunnison Island, a protected sanctuary for the third largest…
On the Water Front of Great Salt Lake - Taking the Initiative to Identify Ways to Provide Water for the Lake is the Right Thing to Do
Executive Director’s Message – Summer 2017 “Great Salt Lake is an important resource and provides so many ecological, biological, economic and recreational opportunities that we cannot ignore it much longer. Climate change and our current hydrologic cycle may be our new normal. If so, we will all have to learn…
Winter 2016: Great Salt Lake – A Body of Work that Must be Included in our Vision for Utah’s Water Future
Executive Director’s Message – Winter 2017 Great Salt Lake – A Body of Work that Must be Included in our Vision for Utah’s Water Future “Show up. Dive in. Stay at it!” -The 44th President of the United States - Barack Obama in his final address to the American people…
Fall 2016: Pinch Points on the System from Record Low Elevations Require Critical Timing and Water to Address Important Ecosystem Services of Great Salt Lake
Current GSL Lake elevation : Gilbert Bay/South Arm 4,192.29’ Gunnison Bay/North Arm 4,189 ’ “Thank you for taking the time to meet with me during my recent trip to Utah to discuss the profound environmental challenges facing the Great Salt Lake. It was a pleasure to tour the Great Salt…
Spring 2016: Great Salt Lake - The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Just Add Water
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Why We Care
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Great Salt Lake, the second most hypersaline Inland Sea in the world, has a fate of becoming even more salty with permanent loss of a large portion of its Bear River fresh water life supply.
Precious fresh water diverted to support more of the same, the endless expansion of the human race, big box stores, and shopping centers duplicated around the country ruining any future adventure of small town exploration and road trips.
Everything is becoming the same. Everyone is looking the same. Everyone does the same things. Great Salt Lake is unique and the planet is loosing it as its life blood is stolen from its soft salty shores, waves gently breaking further and further out, leaving vast arrays of dry barren mudflats waiting for phragmites to invade.
Utah does not own Great Salt Lake. Great Salt Lake is owned by the world.Karri Smith, Alfred Lambourne Prize Participant
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