There are at least 27 private reserves along the shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. This one, owned by the Nature Conservancy, stands in a marshland that’s an important rest stop for birds migrating on the Pacific Flyway path. The Pacific Flyway runs from Alaska all the way down to Patagonia in South America. It’s one of four major north-to-south migration routes for birds. Nature preserves like this keep important points along the flyway intact and undeveloped.
Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Layton, Utah
Today in History
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Lionfish off the coast of Indonesia
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New Year s Day
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Celestial Spain
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Boxing Day—a shopper’s delight
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You ve never seen anything like this
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Macro photograph of a migrant hawker dragonfly
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Summer winds down in the Hamptons
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A grotesque scene
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Johnston Canyon in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
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The Wall for Peace
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It s aboat time for the Barcolana
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We re gonna need a bigger birdhouse
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Virgin Islands National Park established
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The fantastic winter fox
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Feel the spray in Monterey
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The frog prince?
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Groundhog Day
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Horsetail Fall, Yosemite National Park, California
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Black History Month
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Morocco in bloom
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Satellite image of sand and seaweed in the Bahamas
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Traveling warblers
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The island fox’s incredible comeback
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A winter wonderland in Northeast China
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Giving Tuesday
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A winter’s holiday ends
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Ocracoke Lighthouse on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina
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Wild and beautiful Alaska
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Celebrating a Paris landmark
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Legacy mural in Philadelphia