Utah must also manage the Great Salt Lake itself and some of its tributary rivers for the good of all Utahns. A lawsuit is currently pending that attempts to preserve the lake using this principle ...

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The June sucker is a fish species native to Utah, inhabiting Utah Lake and using tributaries in the Provo River and Hobble ...

Utah is the fastest growing state ... proposal to further dam and divert the Bear River — the tributary that provides over half of the Great Salt Lake’s freshwater and is already riddled ...

Much of the water that should be going to the Great Salt Lake is used up before it even crosses the Utah border. Water rights to the Bear River, the largest tributary of the lake, are shared with ...

Ferry's land is on the Bear River, which is the largest tributary to the Great Salt ... examines crops that are fed water from the Great Salt Lake. The Utah state legislature also passed a $ ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Tim ... water from outside its primary tributaries, too. Any water imported into the lake now is through cloud seeding or the Colorado River via the Central Utah Project ...

This “lake effect” is responsible for Utah’s other famous product ... six planned for the watershed of Bear River, Great Salt Lake’s biggest tributary. The project would divert 220,000 ...

The state will use $1 million more each year to install dozens more measuring devices in tributaries ... Utah Lake or where that smaller lake releases into the Jordan River toward the Great Salt ...

Climate change and rapid population growth are shrinking the lake, creating a bowl of toxic dust that could poison the air around Salt Lake City ... director of the Utah Rivers Council.

Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake ... flow of the Bear River as it dumps into the Great Salt Lake. Ben Stireman, deputy director of the Utah Division of Forestry ...