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IN THE TRADITION OF THE PERFECT STORM AND SEABISCUIT, THE ENGROSSING TALE OF THE FASTEST BOAT RIDE EVER DOWN THE COLORADO RIVER THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON IN THE WINTER OF 1983, the largest El NiNo event on record'a chain of "superstorms" that swept in from the Pacific Ocean'battered the entire West. That spring, a massive snowmelt sent runoff racing down the Colorado River toward the Glen Canyon Dam, a 710-foot-high wall of concrete that sat at the...
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The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks,...
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"This revised and updated edition, including dozens of new photographs and an afterword by Kevin Fedarko, captures the grandeur of the canyon and depicts their life-altering journies through hundreds of miles of breathtaking landscapes, secret gardens, stunning wildlife, and demanding white water"--Page [2] of cover.
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2023.
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Drought, exacerbated by hotter temperatures, declining levels of precipitation, dry soils, and overuse in the Lower Basin have put the state's namesake river - as well as our communities and economies - in peril. In SB23-295, the General Assembly charged the Task Force with providing recommendations for legislation to address drought in the Colorado River Basin and ensure the state can meet its interstate commitments related to the Colorado River...
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Meet Peter, twenty-seven, single, and looking for a quick hookup; Evelyn, a fifty-year-old Harvard professor; and Ruth and Lloyd, river veterans in their seventies. Theres Mitchell, an overeager history buff with no qualms about unstaging the guides with his knowledge. Theres Jill from Salt Lake City, wanting desperately to spark some sense of adventure in her staid Mormon family; and seventeen-year-old Amy, so woefully overweight...
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It has been suggested in a number of recent reports that the decline in native fish populations in the Colorado River system is due primarily to habitat loss and environmental changes associated with the construction of reservoirs and water diversions. However until we began examining this issue no one had actually determined the significance of channel change on the Colorado River nor had the link between flow regulation and channel change been well...
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