Could a bill to study Utah Lake end up supporting a reservoir in the Great Salt Lake?
Professors said they were approached with plans that seal off Utah Lake’s Goshen Bay and turn it into artificial wetlands, facilitating development of wetlands elsewhere in the watershed.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Wetlands at Goshen Bay, on the south end of Utah Lake, on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.
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.