Great Salt Lake Institute’s Bonnie Baxter and Jaimi Butler wrote an obituary for the feared demise of the Great Salt Lake. Listen as Baxter reads the piece on the shores of the shrinking lake.
A version of the obituary was originally published by Catalyst Magazine; you can read the piece here.
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