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	Podcast:		Access Utah
	Episode:		Revisiting The Disappearing Great Salt Lake With Wayne Wurtsbaugh On Monday's Access Utah
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:54:01
	Publish Date:		2019-09-23 11:11:09
	Description:		John DeVilbiss writes in USU Magazine, "It flashes like a beacon to millions of birds on migratory marathons. It is a sea in the sand that shimmers lavender in one glance and pale turquoise in another. A place you can go for an entire day without seeing a single soul, yet where two million people live within an hour's drive. It is a lake of paradoxes, said historian Dale Morgan, a liquid lie, said Terry Tempest Williams. The salty truth, however, is that the Great Salt Lake, the largest saline lake in the Western hemisphere, is drying up." Wayne Wurtsbaugh is a Professor Emeritus of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University. He received graduate degrees and post-doctoral experience at the University of California, Davis and Oregon State University. Since coming to USU in 1983 he has done research throughout the western United States, Peru, Argentina, Switzerland and Spain. He has broad experience in fish ecology and limnology. His research takes a holistic view of aquatic ecosystems,
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