Stephen Trimble: Utah must come to grips with its arid heart right away.
Hundreds gather for a "Rally to Save Our Great Salt Lake" at the Capitol building in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023.Last November, the Great Salt Lake, an iconic landmark of the Great Basin Desert, fell to its lowest surface elevation ever recorded. The lake had lost
Settlers colonized the eastern shoreline 175 years ago, displacing Native peoples, and all of us who followed have mostly taken this desert lake and its fiery sunsets for granted. But the lake is an economic engine as well as an ecological treasure. More than 10 million birds depend on the lake’s tiny invertebrates for food. Half of the world’s population of Wilson’s phalaropes feast on Great Salt Lake brine flies in summer, taking on fat reserves for their. For phalaropes, the lake is “a lifeline,” says conservation biologist Maureen Frank.
When precipitation dropped to normal, lake levels declined again, aided by today’s drying and warming climate, which is reducing natural flows and increasing evaporation, a recent but growing impact.
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