{"id":11384,"date":"2021-05-13T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11384"},"modified":"2021-05-23T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T17:20:51","slug":"colorado-river-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/13\/colorado-river-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado River Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/news\/reconnecting-colorado-river-sea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Audubon<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reconnecting the Colorado River to the Sea<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Binational Water Conservation Making the Colorado River More Sustainable for People and Birds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Jennifer Pitt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nas-national-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/styles\/article_hero_inline\/s3\/coriver_waterdelivery_2021.jpg?itok=e2rR7NKh\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Delivery of water for the environment in the Colorado River Delta, May 3, 2021.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Adri\u00e1n Salcedo, Restauremos el Colorado<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colorado River is flowing again in its delta. This is a big deal for a river that has not flowed through its delta in most years since the 1960s, resulting in an ecosystem that is severely desiccated and devastated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to commitments from the United States and Mexico in the Colorado River binational agreement\u2014Minute 323 \u2013 \u00a035,000 acre-feet of water (11.4 billion gallons) dedicated to create environmental benefits will be delivered to the river from May 1 to October 11. The expectation is that this will create and support habitat for birds like the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Yuma Ridgway\u2019s Rail, and Vermilion Flycatcher, and give life to the many plants and animals in this ribbon oasis of green in the midst of the Sonoran Desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/news\/reconnecting-colorado-river-sea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Audubon<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Audubon Reconnecting the Colorado River to the Sea Binational Water Conservation Making the Colorado River More Sustainable for People and Birds By Jennifer Pitt The Colorado River is flowing again in its delta. This is a big deal for a river that has not flowed through its delta in most years since the 1960s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}