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'Seeing is believing': Utah senators tour Great Salt Lake as they look at ways to protect it

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Posted - Sept. Ashley Kijowski, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources water fowl program manager, talks with Sen. Derrin Owens, R-Fountain Green, as they pause during an airboat ride through Farmington Bay on the eastern side of the Great Salt Lake on Thursday.

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