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Colorado River compact

  • 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…

  • McCain addresses a truly Western issue and threatens to start a water war

    Ralph Maughan

    Open up the 1922 Colorado River Compact? Fighting words! This is probably the best piece on the implications of McCain;s statement. Diary of a Mad Voter: Joan McCarter McCain’s Water Woes “For a Senator from a Western state, John McCain is showing some serious disconnectedness from the issues that matter out here. Is he really…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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