FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake

FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake Working to preserve and protect the Great Salt Lake ecosystem since 1994.

Visit www.fogsl.org to learn more about our mission and programs or support our work by becoming a member.

Join us from 9am-12pm on Saturday, September 19 for International Coastal Cleanup 2026, presented by Salt Lake City’s Of...
08/22/2026

Join us from 9am-12pm on Saturday, September 19 for International Coastal Cleanup 2026, presented by Salt Lake City’s Office of the Mayor!

Volunteers will remove trash from Great Salt Lake’s southern shores to improve critical wildlife habitat.

Register at fogsl.org/icc (linked in our bio).

Thanks to our wonderful partners who make this event possible:
Mayor Erin Mendenhall, Great Salt Lake Audubon, Great Salt Lake State Park, Audubon Rockies, The Nature Conservancy in Utah, Atlas Disposal Industries, Liberty Tire Recycling, & Ocean Conservancy

Join us for the 13th annual Alfred Lambourne Arts Program gallery opening, readings, and performances on Friday, August ...
08/08/2026

Join us for the 13th annual Alfred Lambourne Arts Program gallery opening, readings, and performances on Friday, August 28 from 6:00-8:30pm at Sorenson Community Campus Gallery & Theater (1383 South 900 West, SLC).

We’ll experience artistic representations of our Inland Sea in the categories of visual arts, literary arts, and hybrid forms.

Free & open to all.

Learn more about the Alfred Lambourne Arts Program, and view our catalogs of past submissions at the link in our bio.

On behalf of our members, FRIENDS frequently participates in agency processes related to the management of the Lake, inc...
07/24/2026

On behalf of our members, FRIENDS frequently participates in agency processes related to the management of the Lake, including commenting on draft Utah Division of Water Quality discharge permits like this one.

FRIENDS considers this participation to be critical to our mission and to be valuable as a means of influencing the administration of the Lake and of protecting and preserving the Lake ecosystem.

Thanks to our General Counsel, Rob Dubuc, for leading this effort and preparing thorough comments that help protect Great Salt Lake.

Read our full comment here: https://fogsl.org/advocacy-issues/land-use-wildlife

Recordings and photos from our 2026 Great Salt Lake Issues Forum are now available!Watch all three days of presentations...
07/14/2026

Recordings and photos from our 2026 Great Salt Lake Issues Forum are now available!

Watch all three days of presentations on our YouTube playlist (video descriptions include timestamps for each presentation), check out photos by Ken Kraus, and view the speakers’ slides at the link below:

https://fogsl.org/programs-2026

Highlights include Anna McEntire’s insights from the Great Salt Lake Strike Team (JQL Institute for Land, Water, and Air at USU), updates on dedicated water from Great Salt Lake Deputy Commissioner Hannah Freeze, and the status of the US Magnesium acquisition presented by Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands Director Jamie Barnes.

Thanks to all our speakers and attendees for making the 15th biennial Issues Forum so impactful. We’ll see you again in 2028!

Meet 2026 Doyle W. Stephens Scholarship recipient, Lauren Whelton!As a graduate student at University of Utah, Lauren ha...
07/14/2026

Meet 2026 Doyle W. Stephens Scholarship recipient, Lauren Whelton!

As a graduate student at University of Utah, Lauren has been researching recovery dynamics of microbialite communities following environmental disturbance at Great Salt Lake.

This summer, Great Salt Lake is once again approaching record low water levels. Large areas of microbialites are exposed and desiccating.

As the foundation of the Lake’s food web, it’s critical to understand how desiccation impacts microbialite communities and their ability to recover.

Early results from Lauren’s research offer hope that this ecosystem is resilient—just add water.

Listen to Lauren describe her project here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0lUV2Bcid0&t=5339s

Photo by Ken Kraus

Help us keep Great Salt Lake shark free by supporting our Summer Giving Campaign. 🦈Read Holly’s letter at the link below...
07/10/2026

Help us keep Great Salt Lake shark free by supporting our Summer Giving Campaign. 🦈

Read Holly’s letter at the link below to learn about what we’ve accomplished together since May (and why Jaws might be the movie of the summer...).

https://fogsl.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/42

As we remain vigilant, don’t forget to reconnect with the Lake we’re working so hard to preserve and protect. If you have an opportunity to go for a float this summer, take it.

Sharks don’t belong near Great Salt Lake, but you do.

07/01/2026

The National Audubon Society has released a new assessment using habitat, hydrology, and climate modeling to illustrate the importance of the Great Salt Lake and the waterbirds that its wetlands support.

Story linked in comments.

What a great first week of Salty Science Summer Camp with Youth Education at the University of Utah!We tested water qual...
06/19/2026

What a great first week of Salty Science Summer Camp with Youth Education at the University of Utah!

We tested water quality at City Creek with USU Water Quality Extension & Utah Water Watch, identified birds at Eccles Wildlife Education Center, studied geology & life cycles at Great Salt Lake State Park, and finished the week floating with the brine shrimp (and Pink Floyd 🦩) at Antelope Island State Park.

As Great Salt Lake once again nears historic record low levels, these moments are even more precious.

Thanks to our partners and our adventurous campers for exploring the ecosystem with us and learning about how we can help protect it.

06/19/2026

If you are familiar with the water woes facing the Great Salt Lake, this is what we are fighting for. There is no place more beautiful than the lake on a calm evening with a grand, colorful sunset on display. It's one of many reasons we need to save the dwindling lake. FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake

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