Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative , a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great Salt Lake .

HUNTSVILLE, Weber County — Bill White remembers hearing about the Great Salt Lake being in peril as he was on the cusp of receiving a conservation easement for 1,050 acres of his farmland in 2022.

“By the time (the easement) was finished, the Great Salt Lake was in the news almost every day because of the declining water levels,” said White, owner of the Historic Monastery Farm.

The lake would ultimately fall to 4,188.5 feet elevation, its lowest point on record. It inspired the Summit Land Conservancy, which completed the easement, to include a

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