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- Contents
- Contact your legislators
- Watch Us Grow!
- Mar 30, 2024, Questions About Listing the Wilson’s Phalarope as an Endangered Species
- Feb 27, 2024, Is Great Salt Lake a Person?
- Jan 26, 2024, Growing the flow in the Bear River to Save Our Great Salt Lake
- Jan 20, 2024, Join us for a Rally to Save Our Great Salt Lake
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Questions About Listing the Wilson’s Phalarope as an Endangered Species
Audubon Magazine Cover Spring 2024
Copyright National Audubon
An international team of researchers is conducting fieldwork from Canada to Argentina to help tell the story of the Wilson’s Phalarope, a species in peril whose essential habitats across the hemisphere are at risk from overuse and drought.
Understanding the petition to list the Wilson’s phalarope, Brigham Daniels and Beth Parker, Wallace Stegner Center, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
https://www.law.utah.edu/news-articles/understanding-petition-to-list-wilsons-phalarope/
Think of this as a study on how to get the word out for an environmental question:
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/endangered-species-protections-sought-for-wilsons-phalarope-2024-03-28/
Press Conference Thursday Highlights Urgency of Endangered Species Act Protections for Threatened Migratory Bird, Deeda Seed, The Center for Biological Diversity, March 25, 2024
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/press-conference-thursday-highlights-urgency-of-endangered-species-act-protections-for-threatened-migratory-bird-2024-03-25/
Backup page: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/birds/Wilsons-phalarope
https://www.monolake.org/today/the-science-behind-the-petition-mono-lake-and-the-wilsons-phalarope-under-the-endangered-species-act/
Backup:
Updated Version of the Wilson’s Phalarope Conservation Plan Available, Marcela Castellino, Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN), Feb 1, 2024
https://whsrn.org/updated-version-of-the-wilsons-phalarope-conservation-plan-available/
Wilson’s Phalaropes and their Journey from Canada to Argentina, Emily Hamel, Max Malmquist, National Audubon, Sept 25, 2023
https://www.audubon.org/news/wilsons-phalaropes-and-their-journey-canada-argentina
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2024/03/29/threatened-species-listing-tiny/
https://www.fox13now.com/news/great-salt-lake-collaborative/endangered-species-listing-may-be-just-the-beginning-for-gsl-intervention-plans
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/03/28/opinion-one-little-birds-fate-is/
https://www.ksl.com/article/50964842/environmental-group-seeks-protection-for-this-great-salt-lake-shorebird-species
https://kslnewsradio.com/2091755/group-petitions-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service-to-protect-migratory-bird-called-wilsons-phalarope/
https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/how-the-push-to-save-a-tiny-bird-could-trigger-a-big-rescue-plan-for-great-salt-lake/
https://hermaksikge.lighting/120318/the-group-is-asking-the-government-to-protect-wilsons-phalaropes/
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Is Great Salt Lake a Person?
Courtesy & Copyright Sarah Woodbury
what: an art film screening & discussion panel on the personhood and state of Great Salt Lake
when: Tuesday, Feb 27, 7pm
where: The Cache Bar, Logan, Utah, (21+) 139 South Main Street
the film: This short lyrical dance-poetry piece dreams into relationships between Great Salt Lake, birds, and humans in the context of a collapsing ecosystem. Born out of a process of listening to and speaking with this saline being, the piece is an empathetic imagining of the lake’s embodied experience.
the panel: Following the film will be a panel conversation with local caretakers of the lake, from storytellers to policy experts to scientists. Join us to explore the sentience of Great Salt Lake and ways this informs approaches to the lake.
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Jan 26 Growing the flow in the Bear River to Save Our Great Salt Lake
What:
Where: USU NR 204
When: Friday, 1-2:30 pm Jan 26
Free – open to the public
Contact jackisgreene@yahoo.com
Bridgerland Audubon
Rally for Great Salt Lake
Jan. 20, 2024, South Capital Steps, 3 pm
It’s going to take a groundswell of community pressure to hold our decision-makers accountable, and we need your voice! Show our leaders the breadth of our movement, listen to inspiring speakers, and learn how you can engage with GSL groups to take action for the lake throughout the 2024 legislative session and beyond.
Speakers will include: Virgil Johnson with the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation; Izzy Khachatryan with the Youth Coalition for Great Salt Lake; Courtney Henley with Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment; Muskan Walia with Utah Youth for Environmental Solutions; Forrest Cuch with the Ute Tribe; Ben Abbott, BYU scientist and Executive Director of Grow the Flow; author and activist Terry Tempest Williams; and lake-facing poet Nan Seymour, as emcee.
Rally with us on Saturday, January 20th, at 3 pm on the south steps of the Utah State Capitol. (Text credit: GSLA, Great Salt Lake Audubon)