Ben Winslow is a reporter with FOX 13 covering a variety of topics including politics, polygamy, vice and courts.
SALT LAKE CITY — An endangered species listing for the Wilson's phalarope may be just the beginning in an effort by environmental groups to get federal intervention to reverse the Great Salt Lake's declines.
FOX 13 News first reported on the efforts on Wednesday. The tiny Wilson's phalarope stops at the Great Salt Lake on its journey from North to South America and back again. There are estimated to be about a million left. Some Utah political leaders oppose the petition and what federal intervention would bring should it be granted.
The effort to get the Wilson's phalarope designated an endangered species may be just the beginning. Petitioners told FOX 13 News they are looking at other bird species that rely on the Great Salt Lake and even focusing on the dust that blows off an exposed lake bed.
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