If you want to see the effects of climate change, drive by the Great Salt Lake on I-80. It may have filled somewhat because of an exceptionally rainy winter, but it is still down much further than it should be in mid-June. Acres and acres of lake bottom are exposed to the air.
We are now in Elko, Nevada, where we saw thousands of Mormon crickets. These are the very large bugs that had attacked the grain soon after the Mormons reached Utah. The crops were saved by flocks of seagulls, which are still honored birds in Utah. Too bad their habitat is disappearing.
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