Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake, U.S. is the world's 33rd largest lake at 1,800 square miles (4,662 square kilometers). Great Salt Lake has a maximum length of 75 miles (121 square kilometers).

LAKES

UGS calendar showcases Utah's natural beauty  -  23 Nov 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,Bear River Refuge and Ducks Unlimited will hold a presentation titled, "The Bear River and its Influence on Wetland Habitat Around the Great Salt Lake: Now and ...

EnergySolutions Arena akes Some Getting Used To  -  23 Nov 2006
KSL-TV,...me that buying a company that takes in radioactive pollution from all over the world and dumps it in a hole out west of the Great Salt Lake is controversial? ...

Utahns to be honored for exceptional scientific works  -  23 Nov 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,...of Environmental Quality and Division of Water Quality, for helping bring together agencies to study issues and work on Great Salt Lake waterfowl and shore ...

Captain's passion is the Great Salt Lake  -  Nov 9, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,...sea. Yes, there is life in the the Great Salt Lake. Life ... friends . . . The Great Salt Lake "was like a playground in our own backyard.". That ...

Swans Arrive on Great Salt Lake  -  Nov 10, 2006
KCPW,...(KCPW News) Tens of thousands of tundra swans are resting on the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake, on their way from Alaska to warmer climes in the south. ...

FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake, others clean the shoreline  -  Nov 2, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,By Brittanie Morris. On the Great Salt Lake's south shore sits the Lee Creek Natural Area, a place once overridden by ATVs, cars and mountain bikes. ...

Great Salt Lake Book Festival On KCPW  -  Oct 25, 2006
KCPW,Thursday at 8pm, KCPW presents Richard Bushman. Bushman is the author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. Friday at 8pm, tune ...

Early Mormon explorations of Utah Valley  -  Nov 19, 2006
Daily Herald,The party traveled to the Great Salt Lake and swam in its waters near Black Rock. Then they camped close to the lake's south shore. ...

Logan votes to join area landfill authority  -  Nov 22, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,Box Elder has been identified as the most likely location because 5,600 square miles of land, plus 2,200 square miles of Great Salt Lake, are contained in the ...

Utahns tackling phragmite mess  -  Nov 16, 2006
Deseret News,...who deal with phragmites know the plant is a problem: It has invaded Utah's northern marshes and chokes out native vegetation along the Great Salt Lake shores. ...

State OKs Stansbury's plan for lake  -  Nov 2, 2006
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin,Jeff Salt, the executive director of the Great Salt Lake Keeper, an environmental group that monitors issues facing wetlands and the Great Salt Lake, also met ...

Bay being drawn down due to leak  -  Nov 20, 2006
Deseret News,District. Pumps will deposit bay water into the Great Salt Lake. Some water is already being released to the lake through an outlet. ...

Willard Bay dam leak caused by failed drain  -  Nov 15, 2006
KIFI,...is well. Willard Bay is a diked-off freshwater playground next to the Great Salt Lake that draws many water-skiers and boaters.

Recreation Roundup  -  Nov 15, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,State Parks conditions as of Tuesday: Bear Lake - ramps open, water temperature 45; Deer Creek - open, 54; East Canyon - open, 52; Great Salt Lake Marina - open ...

Outdoor notes  -  Nov 15, 2006
Deseret News,The first swans of the fall — 22 of them — were spotted Oct. 10 during a Division of Wildlife Resources' survey along the Great Salt Lake's eastern shore. ...

'Courage & Stupidity' Interview: Darin Beckstead  -  Nov 13, 2006
SpielbergFilms.com,SPIELBERGFILMS: Were all of your locations centered around the same area? BECKSTEAD: Two locations. The Great Salt Lake and the Utah State Fair Park. ...

Crews Work To Repair Leak At Willard Bay Dam  -  Nov 14, 2006
KUTV,They say they did consider breaching the dam into the Great Salt Lake if emergency conditions dictated but it never came to that point. ...

Festival proves a delight for all bookworms  -  Nov 9, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,...can be unmatched. Sponsored by the Utah Humanities Council, the annual Great Salt Lake Book Festival, which took place Oct. 25-28 ...

Ten Questions with Betsy Burton  -  Oct 26, 2006
New West,Burton, who will be participating in this year’s Great Salt Lake Book Festival as a panelist, took the time to answer some of our questions and her answers ...

Recreation Roundup  -  Nov 8, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,State Parks conditions as of Tuesday: Bear Lake - ramps open, water temperature 51; Deer Creek - open, 55; East Canyon - open, 52; Great Salt Lake Marina - open ...

Chemical Industry Leaders Commit to Ambitious Chlorine Rail Tank ...  -  Nov 15, 2006
PR Newswire (press release),The magnesium plant is located on the west shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The Great Salt Lake provides an inexhaustible supply ...

Leak Discovered in Willard Bay Dam  -  Nov 14, 2006
KSL-TV,The area involved is well removed from I-15 and crews are prepared to breach the dam into the Great Salt Lake if emergency conditions arise.

Strong quarter buoys salt producer’s shares  -  Oct 31, 2006
Kansas City Star,Ronald Bryan, who currently leads the company’s Great Salt Lake Minerals subsidiary and its specialty fertilizer segment, will assume additional ...

How the first buffalo herd came to be on Antelope Island in Great ...  -  Nov 8, 2006
Deseret News,Excerpts from "East of Antelope Island," commissioned by Daughters of Utah Pioneers in 1948. Reprinted with permission. White & Sons Co. ...

Compass Minerals names strategy VP  -  Oct 30, 2006
Kansas City Business Journal,Ronald Bryan, who leads the company's Great Salt Lake Minerals subsidiary and its specialty fertilizer segment, will take on added responsibility for Salt ...

Officials drain big share of reservoir to search for leak  -  Nov 17, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,...scheduled to arrive this weekend. Water is currently being released through an outlet into the Great Salt Lake. Water seeping out of ...

Your Week: Around the state  -  Nov 18, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,The dike that separates Willard Bay's fresh water from the Great Salt Lake - and also protects adjacent farmland and homes - sprang a leak this weekend for the ...

Crews patch dike that sprang a leak at Willard Bay  -  Nov 14, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,Posted: 4:04 PM- The dike that separates Willard Bay's fresh water from the Great Salt Lake - and also protects adjacent farmland and homes - sprang a leak ...

Kirby: Fun with bison on a stormy morning  -  Oct 29, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,The Great Salt Lake is not easy on the nose. ... It's also one of the few things that actually smells worse that the Great Salt Lake.

Going under . . . the sea  -  Oct 27, 2006
Stanford Daily,Whatever it is it is a saltwater body. Unless they’re talking about the Great Salt Lake, I don’t know what lake they could have been in. ...

Book festival at library  -  Oct 27, 2006
Deseret News,The Utah Humanities Council will present its 9th Annual Great Salt Lake Book Festival today and Saturday at the Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E. 400 South ...

Bison Roundup starts with a gallop  -  Oct 25, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,ANTELOPE ISLAND - With a whoop, a holler and a yee-haw, the 20th Annual Bison Roundup got underway on horseback Wednesday on this island of the Great Salt Lake ...

Davis County Residents May Pay More for Mosquito Abatement  -  Oct 28, 2006
KSL-TV,I have, however, seen many mosquitoes. by Max P. @ 12:28am - Sat Oct 28th, 2006. They spray in the Great Salt Lake marshes & in highly concentrated areas. ...

Jail Transport Van Involved in High-Speed Chase  -  Nov 3, 2006
KSL-TV,The fleeing vehicle in this case was a jail transport van speeding across the Great Salt Lake desert on I-80. The vehicle belongs ...

New book hands down pastor's oral history  -  Nov 3, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,...of Utah. Davis and Atiya presented last Saturday at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival at the Salt Lake City Main Library. "I told ...

Helping hand  -  Oct 27, 2006
Deseret News,The Utah Humanities Council — The Utah Humanities is seeking volunteers for two-hour shifts at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival on Saturday, Oct. ...

Utah Marquee: Readings  -  Oct 26, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,GREAT SALT LAKE BOOK FESTIVAL Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City; today and Saturday; free; for schedule and further information, call 801-359-9670 ...

Recreation roundup  -  Oct 25, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,Bear Lake - ramp open, water temperature 43; Deer Creek - open, 55; East Canyon - open, 56; Wide Hollow at Escalante - open, 55; Great Salt Lake State Park ...

Utah Writer Marianne Harding Burgoyne Helps Rebuild Antigua ...  -  Oct 27, 2006
Eworldwire (press release),...com. Ms. Burgoyne will also be exhibiting her book at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival, October 28, 2006, in Salt Lake City. For ...

years of memories shape old-fashioned roundup on Antelope Island  -  Nov 8, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,Urry, of the 1987 adventure that kicked off Utah State Parks' efforts to maintain a healthy herd of publicly owned bison on this island of the Great Salt Lake. ...

Sweet Home historian Martha Steinbacher chronicles life during and ...  -  Nov 10, 2006
Albany Democrat Herald,I would and he did.�. Then it was off to Wendover Field, Utah, in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. Wives and families lived 60 miles away at Wells, Nev. ...

Bison wranglers hit the trails  -  Oct 26, 2006
Salt Lake Tribune,George to work with about 60 other volunteer wranglers Wednesday to get the 20th Annual Bison Roundup started on this island of the Great Salt Lake. ...

The Pathfinder: Echoes in Nye County  -  Nov 1, 2006
Pahrump Valley Times,They traveled to the south shores of the Great Salt Lake and across the Salt Desert. At a tributary of the Humboldt River, Fremont split the party. ...

In the form of 5 questions, Ken Jennings  -  Oct 27, 2006
Salt Lake City Weekly,...won $2.4 million in 75 appearances. Jennings will speak at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival Friday, Oct. 27, 8 pm, at the Main ...