(Image courtesy of the Utah Division of Water Resources) Crews raise the breach in a rock-filled causeway bisecting the Great Salt Lake in an effort to stave off rising salinity in the lake's south arm, seen here in July 2022. Gov. Spencer Cox recently ordered the breach be raised another five feet.
Leia Larsen is a sixth generation Utahn and a water and land use reporter reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has covered environment, energy and political issues throughout the West. When she’s not chasing the news, Leia can be found exploring the Wasatch Mountains, sleeping in the desert or rooting around her garden.