‘It matters … when your water goes away’: Reexamining the end of Utah’s ‘lost oasis’
The entire West Desert is now about the exact opposite of what the area once was. The planet warmed as it left the Pleistocene era and Lake Bonneville receded to what is now the Great Salt Lake. And as the Great Salt Lake now dries to the lowest level in its recorded history, there is plenty more moonscape to go around.