Are artificial wetlands the future of the Great Salt Lake?
Not everyone gets to turn their hobby into a career. But thanks to the Salton Sea, California duck hunting guide Breck Dickinson gets to do just that. He doesn’t even advertise, and yet he has work booked out years in advance. Declining water levels at the Salton Sea, which has lost about a third of its water supply in the past 25 years, jeopardize the future of his business. The ducks remain plentiful, he says, but access to the lake has declined and other species of birds have largely disappeared. All that could change within the next year or two as the state of California nears the completion of the Species Conservation Habitat Restoration Project … to restore 30,000 acres of habitat at the Salton Sea — and one that could have implications for the future of the Great Salt Lake.
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