Avid bird watcher and outdoor enthusiast Goodman Larson has spent a lifetime studying Salt Lake. He was born in Marietta, though he now lives in the Twin Cities. He still owns a farm near Salt Lake and treasures the times he can visit. The lake is, at most, four feet deep, but Larson says it frequently dries up in drought cycles. This Minnesota example is a third as salty as the ocean and it supports an assortment of life not usually found in the state.
Salt grasses grow along the water's edge and in the lake itself.
I remember taking a plankton net out in the water and the plankton net at the end has a test tube so they concentrate the plankton in that test tube. It was pink from the brine shrimp that are found here. Goodman's son, Ken Larson, volunteers to taste the water of Salt Lake. Goodman and Ken Larson stand in front of Salt Lake. The salt in Salt Lake is a natural by-product of the alkaline soils surrounding it.