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Week of wonder: Saving Utah's Great Salt Lake
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The Great Salt Lake is central to environmental and economic life in Utah. It holds great religious significance, too. But it's rapidly drying up.
Guests
Terry Tempest Williams, a writer who lives in Utah and grew up near the Great Salt Lake. Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence. Author of a NYT op-ed "I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake."
Ben Abbott, professor of ecology at Brigham Young University. One of the lead authors of the BYU report "Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse."
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Mike Prather, a naturalist at Owens Lake in California.