Caught in the Middle

A River Between Two Dams and the Future of the Grand Canyon

The Colorado River Basin
Land of Relationships
Balancing Act
Glen Canyon Dam
Science Below the Dam
Way of Life
Toward Symmetry
Resources

Lichtenstein, Grace. “Drought Hindering Rafting By Tourists in Grand Canyon.” The New York Times, May 19, 1977, sec. Archives. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/19/archives/drought-hindering-rafting-by-tourists-in-grand-canyon.html.

National Park Service. “Associated Tribes.” Government. Grand Canyon National Park, February 7, 2023. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/historyculture/associated-tribes.htm.

———. “Visitor Spending Effects - Economic Contributions of National Park Visitor Spending - Social Science (U.S. National Park Service).” Accessed March 20, 2023. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/vse.htm.

Native Land Digital. “Native Land Digital.” Native-Land.ca, 2023. https://native-land.ca/.

Ophelia in Havasupai Gardens, 2021. https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=07A8271B-91E0-42A5-88D2-58FECBBDD319.

Overpeck, Jonathan T., and Bradley Udall. “Climate Change and the Aridification of North America.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 22 (June 2, 2020): 11856–58. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006323117.

Sjogren, Morgan. “Can the Ancient Humpback Chub Hang On in Today’s Grand Canyon? | Sierra Club.” Sierra: The Magazine of the Sierra Club, January 12, 2023. https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/can-ancient-humpback-chub-hang-today-s-grand-canyon.

Stanford, Jim. “‘Get down and Row.’” Jackson Hole News&Guide, November 16, 2022. https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/sports/features/get-down-and-row/article_d1c57055-cc58-56c2-a156-85e0302ee09e.html.

Sullivan, Steve. “2022 Backcountry and River Use Statistics.” Grand Canyon National Park, 2022. https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/upload/2022_Backcountry_and_River_Use_Statistics.pdf.

Tanya Trujillo. Letter to Thomas Buschatzke. “Glen Canyon Dam Operations Letter,” April 8, 2022. https://www.circleofblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GCD-2022-Operations-Letter-Buschatzke.pdf.

Tom Bartels. Native American Perspectives, 2011. https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=8A025EDD-4734-4CC9-BCF2-550C661E7CC8.

Udall, Bradley, and Jonathan Overpeck. “The Twenty-First Century Colorado River Hot Drought and Implications for the Future.” Water Resources Research 53, no. 3 (2017): 2404–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019638.

US Bureau of Reclamation. “Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for December 2007 Record of Decision Entitled Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and Coordinated Operations For Lake Powell and Lake Mead.” Notice. US Bureau of Reclamation, November 17, 2022. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/11/17/2022-25004/notice-of-intent-to-prepare-a-supplemental-environmental-impact-statement-for-december-2007-record.

———. “Technical Record of Design and Construction: Glen Canyon Dam and Powerplant,” December 1970. http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/USBR/GCDtechnicalData.pdf.

US Geological Survey. “COLORADO RIVER AT LEES FERRY, AZ.” Accessed February 7, 2023. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/09380000/.

US Senate. “Full Committee Hearing To Examine Short And Long Term Solutions To Extreme Drought In The Western U.S.” U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, June 14, 2022. https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2022/6/full-committee-hearing-to-examine-short-and-long-term-solutions-to-extreme-drought-in-the-western-u-s.

Wang, Jian, and John C Schmidt. “Stream Flow and Losses of the Colorado River in the Southern Colorado Plateau,” 2022.

Story Map Design

American Rivers

Environmental Defense Fund

Four Corners Mapping and GIS