This is a wonderful read in OutsideOnline.com about this spring’s temporary unleashing of the Colorado River. Our food choices and environmental decisions have consequences, folks.
This story makes me want to strap on a backpack and head west.
Back in the era of massive dam building, farmers and city planners were only too happy to see the wild Colorado transformed into a domesticated delivery system. Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, San Diego, Mexicali, and many more municipalities drink the Colorado every day.
As do you. Most of America’s winter veggies are grown in the irrigated valleys of Southern California and Arizona. Your fridge is filled with Colorado River greens. Your beef was fattened on Colorado River alfalfa. Even your milk may well be the Colorado transformed. We all nurse from the mother river.
via The Day We Set the Colorado River Free | Nature | OutsideOnline.com.