{"id":12822,"date":"2023-06-13T22:12:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T22:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12822"},"modified":"2023-07-02T22:15:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T22:15:02","slug":"resurrect-glen-canyon-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/13\/resurrect-glen-canyon-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrect Glen Canyon Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jun\/11\/lake-powell-glen-canyon-drought-reservoir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2018A portion of paradise\u2019: how the drought is bringing a lost US canyon back to life<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Record dryness has restored an ecosystem under Lake Powell, the country\u2019s second-largest reservoir. Is it time to see it as \u2018a national park rather than a storage tank\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/annette-mcgivney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Annette McGivney<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Real Reason Glen Canyon Dam Was Built\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XSaa_KxVYSs?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One night in May 2003, I found myself in search of a disappearing lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend and I had ventured to the Hite Marina on Lake Powell to see what America\u2019s second-largest reservoir looked like after three years of record drought. In search of a camping spot, we drove down a boat ramp that just a few years earlier was bustling with boaters. Now it sat eerily on a dry lakebed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donning headlamps, we walked past marooned docks and stranded buoys, drawn toward a strange roaring sound I thought was wind or a boat motor. Instead, it was something I never thought I\u2019d witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the Colorado River!\u201d my friend shouted in disbelief at how far the reservoir had already withdrawn. \u201cIt\u2019s flowing!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This resurrection of a river that had been dammed to create the reservoir was a beautiful yet unsettling sight. The climate crisis was exposing flaws in a water system that \u2013 after years of denial \u2013 western states have finally been forced to confront. Over the following decade, I returned to Lake Powell many times to hike the slot canyons and tributaries emerging as drought shrunk the lake, watching a world long thought buried coming back to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jun\/11\/lake-powell-glen-canyon-drought-reservoir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian \u2018A portion of paradise\u2019: how the drought is bringing a lost US canyon back to life Record dryness has restored an ecosystem under Lake Powell, the country\u2019s second-largest reservoir. Is it time to see it as \u2018a national park rather than a storage tank\u2019? by\u00a0Annette McGivney One night in May 2003, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}