What kinds of animals lived in and around Lake Bonneville?
Fish lived in Lake Bonneville; amphibians, waterfowl, and other birds inhabited its marshes; and animals such as buffalo, horses, bears, rodents, deer, camels, bighorn sheep, musk oxen, and mammoths roamed its shores. The arrival of humans in the Lake Bonneville Basin has been set by archaeologists at about 10,000 years ago.