Bison roam the land on Antelope Island at the Great Salt Lake on September 10, 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah, where bison arrived in 1893 and remain in one of the oldest and largest publicly owned bison herds in the country. 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 consume too much water, and of global warming which reduces the flow of the rivers that feed it. reaching a historic low in 2022. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP Photo)
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