Farmers want to help the Great Salt Lake, but feel like ‘scapegoats’ for a more complex problem • Utah News Dispatch

Farmers want to help the Great Salt Lake, but feel like ‘scapegoats’ for a more complex problem • Utah News Dispatch

The shore of Great Salt Lake (left) is pictured alongside its historic shoreline (right). The Spiral Jetty lies between them on the dry and dusty lakebed. (Photo courtesy of Bryn Watkins)As the search for solutions to the shrinking Great Salt Lake continues, researchers at Utah State University opened up conversations with the biggest water users in the state: farmers.  Among the findings resulting from those interviews is that farmers in the Gr…