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FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake has been educating our community and advocating for the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem since 1994. Our website contains vital research and information that will help you understand how to preserve and protect one of Utah's most unique natural resources and one of the Western Hemisphere's most important nesting, resting and staging sites for millions of migratory birds.

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FoGSL Is Now Accepting Applications for the 2010 Doyle Stephens Scholarship

FRIENDS invites all undergraduate and graduate students studying the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem to apply for the 2010 Doyle Stephens Scholarship.
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New 2009 USFWS Report Assesses GSL Contaminants

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released a new report entitled "Assessment of Contaminants in the Wetlands and Open Waters of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1996-2000".

This report is the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of contaminant concentrations throughout the avian food chain in the Great Salt Lake and surrounding wetlands. Several geographic areas where contaminants are present at levels that approach or exceed levels of concern in avian dietary items or eggs are identified.
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Short-Term Cycling of Methylmercury in Waters Discharging into GSL Wetlands
Recent biogeochemical assessments of Great Salt Lake wetlands and open water have found elevated levels of methylmercury in the water and biota. David L. Naftz and David P. Krabbenhoft of USGS recently undertook a study to investigate the short-term cycling of methylmercury in water discharging from the Howard Slough State Waterfowl Management Area. The researchers found that the concentration of methylmercury decreased during daylight hours. Read the  paper that was presented during the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (October, 2009).
 
Selenium from Power Plants Poses Ecological Risks
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing a new regulation to protect fish and wildlife from toxic metals, particularly selenium, that are released in the wastewater of coal-fired power plants. Read the article by Sarah Coefield in Environmental Health News.
 
Great Salt Lake Minerals Final Scoping Report

Bio-West, the EIS contractor working with the Army Corps of Engineers on the Great Salt Lake Minerals Expansion project, has released the Final Scoping Report.
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