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  • How Rewilding Could Restore The Colorado River Flows

    George Wuerthner

      Colorado River inner gorge from Tuweep (Tonoweap) overlook, Grand Canyon NP, AZ. Photo George Wuerthner  Seven states utilize the Colorado River water for irrigation and domestic water supplies. It is the sixth longest river in the continental United States, and its watershed covers 8% of the lower 48 states. The Colorado Rockies lie at…

  • Upper Colorado River Basin snowfall gives Lake Mead some replenishment

    Ralph Maughan

    Wet winter and spring will raise the reservoir for the first time in a decade- Recently we posted an article how Lake Mead would soon fall to a level that it would no longer be able to generate power. I recently visited (see photo). The drawdown was amazing, but the extreme wet winter and spring…

  • Will dryup of Lake Mead prompt Western conservatives to think of climate change?

    Ralph Maughan

    Secretary of Interior Salazar thinks so- I don’t think it will, not as the so-called conservatives in office today look at the world.  However, back in the world of facts where Lake Mead isn’t far from the level of “dead pool,” there will be enormous consequences for all the Colorado River Basin states: Wyoming, Colorado,…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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