Years of Abuse and Overuse Make the Colorado River the Most Endangered River of 2013
By Meghan Trubee, Colorado River Senior Campaign Manager This year’s Most Endangered Rivers report from American Rivers makes one thing clear: It is not sustainable for a single river to support 36 million people. That’s the situation today for the Colorado River. Though millions use its water, it is already so over-tapped that it now dries up to a trickle [...]
Saving Beauty, One Ranch at a Time: New Addition Slated for Petrified Forest National Park
The first time NPCA’s Arizona Program Manager Kevin Dahl saw the McCauley Ranch at Petrified Forest National Park, he was with a group of scientists and park enthusiasts exploring private lands identified for eventual addition to the park. The spacious McCauley piece of high-elevation desert covers 4,265 acres near the famous fossilized trees that draw some 630,000 visitors each year [...]
The Legacy of Fred Korematsu
In 1942, a 23-year-old welder from Oakland, California, refused to be incarcerated in a government camp because of his ethnicity. Fred Korematsu, the American-born son of Japanese immigrants, defied a presidential mandate during wartime and took a stand against racism—a fight that lasted for decades and earned him a legacy as a civil rights pioneer. Korematsu’s story is not widely [...]
Fighting Oil and Gas Development at Dinosaur National Monument: A Victory or a Delay?
By Erika Pollard, Southwest Program Manager Tucked into the corners where the Utah and Colorado state lines meet is an exceptional landscape where the Old West stayed young. It is a land of open skies and plains, rugged canyons, and the vibrant Yampa and Green Rivers. And in the heart of it all is Dinosaur National Monument. The monument was [...]
Friday Photo: A Pretty Kind of “Pothole”
Thanks to Walt Biddle for sharing this photo of a lovely sunset viewed through the Mesa Arch at Canyonlands National Park in Utah. It’s no wonder the Mesa Arch is one of the park’s most popular hikes. Visitors can see the 50-foot arch and the dramatic 500-foot vertical cliff beyond it via an easy half-mile walk. The arch is known as a “pothole [...]
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