The drying of Great Salt Lake threatens to compromise the very snow Utah is known for.
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While there is no current plan in place that is specifically directed toward the Great Salt Lake, she said the group is focused on combating climate change and supporting sustainability. And she added that the organization consistently meets with legislators and stakeholders to lobby for climate change mitigation.
"Everybody loves to talk about this lake effect powder, especially here at Snowbird," Skiles said. "The lake effect on snow is very important." "There is no guarantee," he said. "There's no good one or two or three years to solve this problem. Is it wishful thinking that we're going to even get another year or two of this in the next decade? It might be.""The hotter it gets here, the more snowpack is going to diminish," he said.
"A lot of people are talking about , but there are a lot of people who don't quite understand the magnitude of what we're going to lose," he said. What matters, he added, is "getting drops of water into the lake" as soon as possible.The other significant connection between the Great Salt Lake and Utah's snowpack is the dust-on-snow phenomenon, which Skiles has studied since its first documented occurrence in 2017.
Canada geese, canvasback ducks, scaup ducks, redhead ducks, ring-necked ducks and mallard ducks gather in a pond made from storm water as northern harriers fly above them in the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in western Davis County on Jan. 31. Bonnie Baxter, director of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College, explained at the Snowbird event how lack of moisture at the lake has effects beyond the snow. It impacts the lake's basic ecology, the economy and human health.
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