This winter’s remarkable snowpack offers a few more years before the lake’s ecosystem potentially collapses, unless drastic changes are made in the state’s water consumption habits.
Utah researchers say the lake may end up gaining 6 feet between November and the end of spring, but the lake s long-term future still remains in question.
Utah's snowpack reached 30 inches statewide this year for the first time since the Natural Resources Conservation Service began calculating the number in the 1930s.
The Salt Lake City Council approved to rename the room as the, “Senator Garn Greeting Room” in honor of Edwin Jacob “Jake” Garn, a former Salt Lake City mayor, Utah senator and astronaut.