Posts Tagged: Colorado River Delta

There’s an entire generation of people who are seeing their river for the first time. 

There’s an entire generation of people who are seeing their river for the first time. 

The Case for Reconnecting the Colorado River to the Sea

Nearly two decades ago, when I first visited the delta of the Colorado River in northwestern Mexico, I became obsessed with the idea that major rivers like the Colorado were running dry.  I knew what the Colorado Delta had once been—a 2-million-acre expanse of wetlands, lagoons, braided channels, and towering riverside cottonwoods and willows that… Read more »

The Case for Reconnecting the Colorado River to the Sea

Nearly two decades ago, when I first visited the delta of the Colorado River in northwestern Mexico, I became obsessed with the idea that major rivers like the Colorado were running dry.  I knew what the Colorado Delta had once been—a 2-million-acre expanse of wetlands, lagoons, braided channels, and towering riverside cottonwoods and willows that… Read more »