If you haven’t already, make sure to check out Watershed, an incredible documentary about water resources in the American West. Swing by the Redford Center to learn more.
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Even the mightiest rivers have to begin as a small trickle. Check out the leading edge of the pulse flow.
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Restoring a once mighty river that has slowed to a trickle
Restoring a once mighty river that has slowed to a trickle
Can you name the river that rises in a US state at the western edge of the Great Plains and travels 1,400 miles, passes through five US states and Mexico, and is being celebrated for an agreement between the two countries that includes environmental benefits for the first time ever?
Hear more from TNC’s Taylor Hawes
Colorado River: Hope for the Hopeless?
When I first became director for The Nature Conservancy’s Colorado River Program, quite a few folks told me I was crazy.
“The Colorado River is a lost cause,” they said.
As I did my assessment of potential strategies and places to work, the Colorado River Delta stood out as a place that might meet this description. The dusty expanse of land located between the U.S and Mexico has rarely seen water flowing into the Gulf of California since the 1960s.
The Colorado River Delta symbolized the very issue we face throughout the River’s vast basin – not enough water to meet local needs and sustain the river’s ecological health.
Still, I put it on the list of places to work, because if we could address that quandary in the Delta, we could certainly address those same issues throughout the Basin.
Taylor Hawes
Conservancy Talk
Colorado River again flows into Mexico
Colorado River again flows into Mexico
Charlie Neuman, a phenomenal photographer with the San Diego Union Tribune, spent time near Morelos Dam and throughout the pulse flow region yesterday. Click through to see his beautiful images from the event.