Lessons from salt lakes for making a home in a changing world
… The story of the Great Salt Lake’s decline is the template for others around the world, writer and reporter Caroline Tracey writes in her debut book, “Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History.” … Tracey’s book documents the miraculous efforts to save places like California’s Mono Lake, and how a tiny, unique bird— Wilson’s phalarope,—may be key to saving others like the Great Salt Lake. Even President Donald Trump has said the decline of the Great Salt Lake is an “environmental hazard” and that the country must make it “great again.” Tracey recently spoke with Inside Climate News about her book and the lessons saline lakes can provide us in a changing climate.
Other salt lake news:
- Huck magazine: Inside Bombay Beach, California’s ‘Rotting Riviera’
- California Policy Center: Blog: The economics of managing Mono Lake
