In August 2021, we launched the first Get to Know Our Rivers trip. We began with a guided tour of Flaming Gorge Dam, and hit the water at Lodore Canyon on the Green River, the chief tributary of the Colorado River.

This is a grim year for runoff. Brad Udall ran through a striking series of graphs of the current state of the Colorado River. The Fleck Blog posted them, along with accompanying commentary.

During a live broadcast on the Today show, a popular national TV program, Babbitt opened valves to unleash an unprecedented experimental flood into the Grand Canyon just downstream. As onlookers applauded, water gushed from gaping outlet pipes. Babbitt ca...