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Critics argue that failing to flood the Grand Canyon on a regular basis causes its beaches to wash away and has a devastating impact on its wildlife. The Bureau of Reclamation has said it will not ...
Dam maintenance and non-native fish reduction efforts led the government to reject an environmentally restorative flood in ...
Most of the boat ramps at Reclamation reservoirs east of the Continental Divide will be usable during the Memorial Day ...
Lee’s Ferry is considered the line of demarcation ... Authorized in 1956 and built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Glen Canyon Dam flooded Glen Canyon in 1963 with the reservoir water of ...
The Colorado River was a fault line of near-tectonic political forces by the 1920s, as the seven states within its basin ...
Walleyes were gobbling up too many yellow perch in Montana’s Canyon Ferry Lake. So, state officials started dropping old ...
Even the journalists who connected with the crew at Lees Ferry, a rare river ... from which to trace the Grand Canyon’s flora over time. When Glen Canyon Dam went up in 1966, it significantly ...
TOWNSEND, Mont. — In the 1950's, the Bureau of Reclamation completed the Canyon Ferry Dam on the Missouri River near Helena. The concrete structure replaced a timber crib dam that was built in ...
Most drivers on Malibu Canyon Road pass right by the hulking, useless 100-foot-tall dam without even realizing it’s there. But if they pulled off onto the right turnout, walked about 15 feet and ...
the cooling program may aid in recovery of the one-time trophy rainbow trout fishery that gained notoriety after Glen Canyon Dam cooled and cleared the river around Lees Ferry. That fishery has ...