The summer boating season brings wakeboarding, fishing and good times on the water. It also brings the dreaded quagga mussel.

Salt’s team is responsible for those urban environments and responding to residents’ calls for help combating the bugs.

That led him to Antelope Island, where he stumbled across educational signage teaching visitors that brine shrimp and brine flies are the only species living in the Great Salt Lake because of its ...

Hundreds of migrating bird species depend on the imperiled Great Salt Lake for survival ... everything it can to save the lake.” “This decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service is not going ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is the largest wetland ecosystem in the U.S. West, as well as the largest salt lake in the whole Western Hemisphere and the eighth largest in the world. Best known for its ...

On Thursday, a coalition of environmental groups formally petitioned the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ... looking at other bird species that rely on the Great Salt Lake and even focusing on ...

The Great Salt Lake supports nearly 350 different species, many of them migratory ... 53 percent of the water needed to support native fish and wildlife in the lake. If water conservation programs ...

In all likelihood, the Great Salt Lake dies, too. So we’re a critical part of that ecosystem." The Utah Lake Authority is organizing "planting parties" to help get native species along the ...

The species is threatened with extinction because of the imminent collapse of these lakes, including the Great Salt ... Fish and Wildlife Service biologist; Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment; ...

The lake’s decline threatens critical habitat for endangered species as well as the state’s local economy. From the mineral industry to agriculture and recreation, the Great Salt Lake ...