Great Salt Lake’s dust melted Utah’s ‘greatest snow on earth’ more than two weeks early in 2022
The lake’s desiccation is having bigger impacts than scientists initially thought.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dust obscures Antelope Island and the Great Salt Lake on Saturday, June 18, 2022.
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.