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In 1857, a company of Mormon pioneers was stranded in Missouri. They were desperate and without the provisions necessary to complete the long trip to Great Salt Lake City (as

Utah State University’s Landscape Architecture students have formulated and developed initiatives aimed at conserving water for Great Salt Lake. They’ll be presenting their projects Friday at USU’s Logan campus.

Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray shut the Maritime elver fishery down for 45 days on the weekend because of violence and rampant overfishing by unauthorized harvesters.

  The Great Salt Lake is projected to disappear in five years, a new BYU study shows. In November 2022, the lake dropped to a new record low elevation of 4,188.5 feet, according to KSL News Radio. The lake levels have risen due to recent snow storms but community members and experts are calling for...

Snowpack levels in the Henry’s Fork and Teton basins were at 124 percent of normal on April 4.

  To kick off Earth Week 2023, themed “Indigenizing Utah,” the Environmental Humanities Program, Sustainability Office and American Indian Resource Center at the University of Utah held a panel discussion about food sovereignty.  The moderator was Darren Parry, former chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and professor of Native American History at...

Snowpack levels in the Henry’s Fork and Teton basins were at 124 percent of normal on April 4.

A dropping lake level affects agriculture, public health and the environment — but water conservation can halt the decline.

Floodwater flowing through northern Utah will likely end up in the same place — the state’s most recognizable landmark.

Most floodwaters in northern Utah will ultimately end up in the Great Salt Lake, except for water absorbed by the ground or captured in reservoirs.