CoolAqua (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
We were campled up on a riverbank at Colorado River, Texas. The river came up about 35 feet overnight after a huge rainstorm. I got up several times that night to see if we would have to move....
jfleck at inkstain (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
It’s early days yet in terms of a forecast for 2009-10 flow on the Colorado River. Because it depends on the amount of snow that falls on the Colorado Basin’s mountains, there is great uncertainty this early in the year. But the map below can give us some hint about the probabilities: What you can see [...]
Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Drought in the Colorado River Basin is quite bad now. Nevertheless, the long-range forecast is good for California and the Southwest. All hail El Niño, merciful God of the Pacific! I must find a chicken to sacrifice, or, failing that, perhaps a squirrel, or something!
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER (Free subscription) | yesterday
Winter has arrived, says meteorologist Bob Rose of the Lower Colorado River Authority. Cold and raining this week, at least through Wednesday. Then highs only in the 50s. Even some snow forecast but not expected to be cold enough for...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Filed under: Paddling , Photos , Stories , United States , Camping , Ecotourism Even a few hours raft trip can feel like an adventure. A raft trip down the Grand Canyon is perhaps one of the greatest raft adventures of all. My husband used to be a rafting guide in Alaska and Montana and still recalls the 21-day raft trip he took down the Colorado River years ago with friends as the one...
Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... at two bright and bold entries. The reception lobby features a Maya Lin silver sculpture of the Colorado River, and the northern lobby showcases four brightly illuminated translucent walls of water. The hotel features nine restaurants, some of them by top chefs making their first forays into Las Vegas. ...Aria is also home to "Viva Elvis," Cirque du Soleil's seventh Las...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
More than 40 years ago, David Allen's parents bought a tiny log cabin on a piney slope in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, overlooking the Little Colorado River. Under a U.S. Forest Service permit program, the Allens initially paid about $130 per year to have their summer home on public land near Greer. As decades elapsed, that price didn't go up much. By the 1990s, they were paying...
Original Pechanga's Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... way. For example, Ira Hayes, an Akimel O'odham Indian and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, who was one of five brave Marines immortalized in the famous photograph of the Iwo Jima flag-raising during World War II. Young Navajo, Hopi, Comanche and members of other Indian tribes who served as Code Talkers during World War II contributed by using their tribal languages...
My agnostic views & images I like (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Skitched from a slideshow of beautiful Grand Canyon images in the NY Times: Related articles by Zemanta [travel] My mom, on rocks (jlake.com) New permit system announced for Grand Canyon (gadling.com) Posted in choices, mountains, photos/images, public art, travel Tagged: Arizona, Colorado River, Grand Canyon, National Parks and Monuments
California Greening (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... largest water storage reservoir. Trace the journey our melting snow takes from the mountains to rivers and streams, and ultimately into man-made reservoirs as part of our elaborate water supply system. VIEW ENTIRE SEGMENT The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta: Visit the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta by boat and learn why it is the single most important –...
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... Scott’s Momaday’s House Made of Dawn; Frank Waters’ novels and his book on the Colorado River, The Man Who Killed the Deer; the William Eastlake’s trilogy; and Vardis Fisher’s books. As for rarities, David Seals, a relatively unknown Sioux writer, had a hit movie made from his self-published first novel, Powwow Highway, in 1989, but I’ve never been...
Digging (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Queen butterfly in the Wilkerson Center’s native-plant garden The siren song of beautiful fall weather, combined with school holidays last week, pulled us, unresisting, outdoors every day to enjoy local sightseeing in Austin. On Wednesday I took the kids to the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) on Lake Austin Boulevard to play with their cool interactive model [...]
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Grand Canyon Skywalk is basically a bridge overlooking the Colorado River at an altitude of 4,000 feet. The Skywalk is located at Grand Canyon West, not far from Las Vegas, Nevada or Kingman, Arizona. It has been attracting tourists since March 28th, 2007 and as many as one million visitors have experienced it so far [...] Related posts: Shilpa Shetty’s grand reception at Grand...
London Review of Books (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Junk science might be too generous a label for the way conclusions have been reached about the water of the Colorado River. Without it, Arizona and southern Nevada would still be barely populated and a lot of the agriculture in the South-West wouldn’t exist. But the supply was always precarious and overcommitted, and it is already running out.
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I'd like to share some new work by fellow Razon member Brian Frank about the death of the Colorado River. http://www.brianfrankphoto.com/#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&a=0&at=0&p=1 Thanks for looking, Justin
