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Recently there was an article in the newspaper about the Great
Salt Lake. The lake typically goes through a seven year wet
cycle followed by a seven year dry cycle. Since the lake is
quite shallow, how much water runs into it really has a dramatic
effect on its overall size. The current dry cycle combined with
a higher population and more water usage than ever before has
dried up the lake to the point that it has gotten the full
attention of the Utah lawmakers. In the middle of all these
discussions, the Utah National Guard brought in several Black
Hawk helicoptors and gave lawmakers an ariel tour of the lake.
Most of them came back saying that it was much worse then they
had realized, making comments like, "There no longer is an
Antelope Island, it's just all one land mass now." My photo
above shows the lake in the year 2000 when it had much more
water. You can clearly see Antelope Island in the lower right of the picture. For more about the lake see
"The Road to the Lake" (click
here) and "What Once Was" (click
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