Wildlife are losing habitat at the Great Salt Lake. A nonprofit is working to build some back.

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A mother duck and her slew of ducklings paddle along in a stream. Dragonflies dance around cattails. Two sandhill cranes approach the water and get warded off by a pair of nesting birds.

None of them care that the marshy area they are temporarily calling home is only there because of a levee that transformed a flat field with a little bit of water into a thriving wetland habitat.

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Wildlife are losing habitat at the Great Salt Lake. A nonprofit is working to build some back.

Wildlife are losing habitat at the Great Salt Lake. A nonprofit is working to build some back.

Wildlife are losing habitat at the Great Salt Lake. A nonprofit is working to build some back.

Wildlife are losing habitat at the Great Salt Lake. A nonprofit is working to build some back.

Wildlife are losing habitat at the Great Salt Lake. A nonprofit is working to build some back.