As the Great Salt Lake edged toward the brink of ecological collapse in recent years, Utah’s resource managers found sealing off its railroad causeway was one of the quickest and cheapest ways ...

The railroad causeway plays a big role in the lake ... [Subscribe to the Open Lands newsletter] Speaking of the Great Salt Lake, let’s take a look at how it’s doing. Water managers have ...

Grow the Flow, a Utah-based water policy and advocacy non-profit group, has placed billboards throughout Salt Lake County, ...

Dozens of youth activists fanned out across the Utah State Capitol, texting and calling lawmakers, asking them to do more for the Great Salt Lake ...

The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah. New research is ...

This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight ...

Skip to content viewer section. The Great Salt Lake (Utah) is divided by a railroad causeway that causes the lake’s south arm to be chemically stratified, when saltier, denser water from the north ...

Clocking in at roughly 35 miles wide and 75 miles long, the Great Salt Lake is the largest natural saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. The lake's name comes from the nature of the water ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people ...