Along a salt evaporation pond known as A12, old tracings show where the tidal channels used to meander through the marsh. The pond will one day be turned back into a tidal marsh.

Turns out these ponds are salt mining ponds, and they used to all be coastal wetlands — a swath of tidal marsh larger than Manhattan. Early California settlers, capitalizing on native Ohlone ...

Ogden's 55,000-acre solar evaporation pond complex produces salt, sulfate of potash and magnesium chloride from the Great Salt Lake. With all that in mind, the Utah Division of Forestry, ...

In 2022, the United States produced 42 million tons of salt which values at around $2.5 billion, the U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries reported.Salt made from brine is largely ...

Salt evaporation ponds are pictured on the east side of Promontory Point on Aug. 4, 2022. The Utah State Legislature and the Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining are facing conflicts over brine ...

A pinkish-red evaporation pond at the Great Salt Lake in Utah on August 2, 2021. The state published its strategic plan for the lake which prompted pushback from conservation groups.

Additionally, the salt ponds support more than 1 million waterbirds throughout the year, hosting more than 75 species, and peaking at 200,000 birds in a single salt pond during the winter and ...

Water crashes onto rocks at the Great Salt Lake State Park in Magna on June 15. The lake has lost half a foot of water in the past few weeks and could lose another 2 feet in the coming months ...