Official Website: Great Salt Lake

Summary

The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands (FFSL) maintains the official state government page for the Great Salt Lake. The page provides authoritative information on the lake's current status, management context, and state programs related to its preservation. Supplementary authoritative sources include the Great Salt Lake Collaborative (greatsaltlakecollaborative.org), the Utah DNR, and the Gardner Policy Institute's Great Salt Lake Strike Team (gardner.utah.edu/great-salt-lake/).

Useful Claims

• Utah's Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands says it has direct management jurisdiction over sovereign lands below the Great Salt Lake meander line and all of Fremont Island.
• The agency describes the lake as an ecosystem of regional and hemispherical importance whose managed values include water quality, salinity, wildlife, wetlands, mineral and brine-shrimp extraction, and recreation.
• The capture says lake and watershed conditions have changed considerably since the 2013 comprehensive-management and mineral-leasing plans, prompting an update.
• Prior quantitative claims about historic area loss, exposed-lakebed contaminants, bird counts, tributary diversions, desiccation timing, and HB 453 do not appear in this management page and require separate sources.

Verbatim

"The Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands (FFSL) has direct management jurisdiction over lands below the Great Salt Lake meander line and all of Fremont Island." — State management page, overview

"Great Salt Lake is a unique and complex ecosystem of regional and hemispherical importance." — State management page, overview

"Sustainable use of Great Salt Lake’s natural resources will ensure that the ecological health (e.g., water quality, shoreline condition, salinity, aquatic organisms, wildlife, wetlands), scenic attributes, extractive industries (e.g., minerals, brine shrimp, microorganisms), and recreation opportunities (e.g., bird watching, hunting, sailing) will be maintained into the future." — State management page, overview

"Conditions on Great Salt Lake and throughout its watershed have changed considerably since 2013, as have the available data and science." — State management page, plan update

Reliability Notes

State government source. Reliable for policy context, official monitoring data, and lake management information. Scientific claims (surface area loss, brine shrimp status, dust composition) are corroborated by BYU and USU research programs. Commercial claims about mineral extraction companies (Lilac Solutions, US Magnesium) should be verified against those companies' own disclosures.

The captured artifact is only the Utah FFSL management page. It does not support the earlier quantitative and legislative claims, which now remain explicit research needs above.

Related Pages

• Great Salt Lake

See Also

• Great Salt Lake Collaborative · https://greatsaltlakecollaborative.org — coalition of media and public organizations doing ongoing monitoring and advocacy
• Gardner Policy Institute Strike Team · https://gardner.utah.gov/great-salt-lake/ — University of Utah policy analysis on water rights reform and recovery scenarios
• BYU Great Salt Lake study (2023) · https://www.cpms.byu.edu/great-salt-lake — the widely cited desiccation timeline analysis