{"id":503,"date":"2014-03-28T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raisetheriver.org\/colorado-river-hope-for-the-hopeless\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T20:20:11","slug":"colorado-river-hope-for-the-hopeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raisetheriver.org\/colorado-river-hope-for-the-hopeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado River: Hope for the Hopeless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><span>When I first became director for The Nature Conservancy\u2019s Colorado River Program, quite a few folks\u00a0<strong>told me I was crazy<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Colorado River is a lost cause,\u201d they said.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>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<\/span>\u00a0<span>has rarely seen water flowing into the Gulf of California since the 1960s.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>The Colorado River Delta symbolized the very issue we face<\/strong>\u00a0throughout the River\u2019s vast basin \u2013 not enough water to meet local needs\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>sustain the river\u2019s ecological health.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>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. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nature.org\/conservancy\/2014\/03\/27\/colorado-river-hope-for-the-hopeless\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Read more.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Taylor Hawes<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nature.org\/conservancy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conservancy Talk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first became director for The Nature Conservancy\u2019s Colorado River Program, quite a few folks\u00a0told me I was crazy.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Colorado River is a lost cause,\u201d they said.\u00a0\u00a0 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&#8230;.  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/raisetheriver.org\/colorado-river-hope-for-the-hopeless\/\" title=\"Read Colorado River: Hope for the Hopeless?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,10,9,79,39],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colorado River: Hope for the Hopeless? - Raise the River<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/raisetheriver.org\/colorado-river-hope-for-the-hopeless\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colorado River: Hope for the Hopeless? - Raise the River\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When I first became director for The Nature Conservancy\u2019s Colorado River Program, quite a few folks\u00a0told me I was crazy.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Colorado River is a lost cause,\u201d they said.\u00a0\u00a0 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.... 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