An environmental group involved in efforts to save the Great Salt Lake said progress is being made in helping it recover.
"It's really unprecedented the amount of money and the amount of attention that is going toward the lake and saline lakes in the region," Marcelle Shoop, the saline lakes program director for the Audubon Society, said in an interview Wednesday with FOX 13 News.
"For the first time really ever, the federal government has recognized that saline lakes throughout the West, particularly great basin lakes throughout the region are important habitats," Shoop said."Better plans, better information upon which to base decisions," she said. The legislature last year gave the Audubon Society and The Nature Conservancy $40 million to secure water rights for the lake itself. They can borrow or buy them. The environmental groups have successfully done it before to help the Great Salt Lake. Contracts with the state of Utah and oversight councils are being put in place, Shoop told FOX 13 News. Asked if they were close to securing water rights, Shoop said she could not say much but added that work was being done.
In a recent interview with FOX 13 News, House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, said Utahns could expect to see measurable water flowing into the Great Salt Lake that wouldn't otherwise within the next year. He has also pushed for the lake to have its own water rights.
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