Utah’s Great Salt Lake is the largest wetland ecosystem in the U.S. West, as well as the largest salt lake in the whole Western Hemisphere and the eighth largest in the world. Best known for its ...

Note to readers • Leia Larsen is a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of politics and environmental issues.

A whole packaged turkey washed up on the shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake in an apparent brining gone awry, officials said. Great Salt Lake State Park & Marina Don’t brine your Thanksgiving turkey in ...