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The Great Salt Lake Desert (colloquially referred to as the West Desert) is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States, between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert, and noted for white evaporite Lake Bonneville salt deposits including the Bonneville Salt Flats. [1]
Danger Cave is a North American archaeological site located in the Bonneville Basin of western Utah around the Great Salt Lakes region, that features artifacts of the Desert Culture from c. 9000 BC until c. 500 AD.
Jesse David Jennings (July 7, 1909 – August 13, 1997) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist and founding director of the Natural History Museum of Utah.Based at the University of Utah, Jennings is best known for his work on desert west prehistory and his excavation of Danger Cave near Utah's Great Salt Lake.
Emigrant members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as Mormon pioneers, (and today as the Mormons) were encouraged in their choice to settle in the Great Basin and the Great Basin Desert by the favorable descriptions of the Great Salt Lake and surrounding Salt Lake Valley that had been written by Western explorer ...
In forty years, the Great Salt Lake has lost two-thirds of its surface area, a victim of an agricultural sector and a mining industry that consumes too much water, and of global warming which ...
The Skull Valley Indian Reservation is located in Tooele County, Utah, [1]: 242 about halfway between the Goshute Reservation and Salt Lake City, Utah. The tribe consists of about 130 people, [ 12 ] of whom 31 live on an 18,000-acre (7,300 ha) reservation located at 40°23′15″N 112°44′09″W / 40.38750°N 112.73583°W / 40. ...
Utah's Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded level this month amid a two-decade drought, a grim milestone as researchers and politicians point to grave threats to wildlife and people ...
They were very effective hunters and gatherers in this desert region. In their tradition, they believe to have always lived in the Great Salt Lake Desert. [13] Living in the desert region provided some benefits for the Goshutes, such as not being bothered by white settlers until the middle of the 1800s when Mormon settlers arrived. [13]