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Colorado River Basin
Colorado River Basin
Colorado River Basin In April of 2013 the Colorado River was named the most endangered river in the country. An outdated system is promising more water than it can supply to a growing number of uses. The river is the major water artery in the Southwest, a region that is drier than the deserts of North Africa. In spite of the lack of rainfall and very high summer temperatures, this dry desert is now home to tens of millions of people and includes some of the major agricultural areas in the United States... read more more >>
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Colorado - National Monument
Colorado National Monument is located between Fruita and Grand Junction on Colorado's western slope. The geology of this 32 square mile region showcases beautiful red sandstone canyons of ancient precambrian basement rocks which are only visible in a few places on the Colorado Plateau... continue reading...
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Colorado, Piceance Basin – Oil Shale Development
For decades, energy companies have attempted to unlock the large, domestic oil shale resources of northwestern Colorado’s Piceance Basin. For more than a quarter of a century, Shell has conducted laboratory and field research on its In Situ (in-ground) Conversion Process to recover oil and gas... read more more >>
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Captain's Blog
5/19/13
One of the prettiest flights there is starts right here in Aspen in the Roaring Fork Valley. Our flight path takes us to Taos, New Mexico, flying right over the West Elks and into the San Luis Valley, supposedly the highest and largest alpine valley in the world containing one of the largest freshwater aquifers in North America. From there we skirt the Sangre de Cristo Range and look over on the other side of the valley at the Winnemuche Wilderness and the magnificent San Juans. We are heading down to the newly designated Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument...
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5/ 7/13
The Santa Cruz River supports the culturally and ecologically diverse region of the Southwest. Recognizing the river's importance to the communities who depend on it, the Sonoran Institute is leading a project that assesses the health of the river and identifies protection and restoration needs of the Lower Santa Cruz River. Sonoran will be working with Pima County, Arizona to use the project to monitor river health and disseminate wetland and river conditions.
