A Not So Great, Great Salt Lake -- Deja Vu...

 

                                 The Great Salt Lake from Buffao Point, looking southwest.

Here are 6 newspaper headlines:

-“Great Salt Lake Doomed: Big Body of Briny Water Slowly Drying Up.”

-“America’s famous ‘Dead Sea’ soon to be dry land.”

-“Great Salt Lake will dry up in next 300 years.”

-“Great Salt Lake is not rising as reported: Lowest level in history.”

-“Great Salt Lake hits lowest level.”

-“Great Salt Lake continues decline.”

While these above headlines may sound like they are very recent, they are not. Some are almost 125 years old... Now, below are the same headlines, but with their source and date:

-“Great Salt Lake Doomed: Big Body of Briny Water Slowly Drying Up.” (From Salt Lake Telegram, August 21, 1902.)

-“America’s famous ‘Dead Sea’ soon to be dry land.” (Ogden Standard-Examiner, February 3, 1924.)

-“Great Salt Lake will dry up in next 300 years.” (Sugar House Bulletin, July 5, 1947.)

-“Great Salt Lake is not rising as reported: Lowest level in history.” (Salt Lake Telegram, January 6, 1903.)

 

               Layton Fourth-graders frolic in the Great Salt Lake, in 2003.

-“Great Salt Lake hits lowest level.” (Manti Messenger, January 17, 1936.)

-“Great Salt Lake continues decline.” (Davis County Clipper, September 10, 1987.)

   “Within a century the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, will have dried up,” a February 3, 1924, headline in the Ogden Standard-Examiner stated. It then likened the GSL’s reduction to that of its predecessor, Lake Bonneville.

    “Were it to disappear, Salt Lake City would lose its principal attraction,” the story stated. “Left would be an immense sink, a giant salty plain, impossible to use for anything constructive."

                 The northwest beach of the GSL on Antelope Island, in 2025, with a roaming buffalo.