Rising Great Salt Lake Inundates Marshes

Adjacent to the east shore of Great Salt Lake is a complex of marshlands and wetlands of national and international significane. Approximately 200,000 acres in extent, these marshes and the adjacent shallows of Great Salt Lake annually play host to literally millions of waterfowl, shorebirds, herons, grebes, and other aquatic and marsh birds. A series of several years of above normal precipitation and below normal evaporation have resulted in a steady increase in the level of Great Salt Lake.