With temps over 100 we thought better of subjecting ourselves to Bourbon and brought ample canned river water, aka Tecate! We need to start praying (& voting) for the decision makers to move along!
Glad you are back and I can selfishly enjoy your writing! Looks like a grand trip, pun intended, the river game of competing states was spot on. It is a complete mess. I have read the 7 options from the Dept of Interior and can’t quite get a handle on how that will be regulated and monitored.
the current negotiation process is still a dystopian nightmare circus. Yep
morgan…i tink you are onto something…take one representative from each decision making group (including each tribe), put them on the river with a facilitator and scribe, convene three successive meetings on three sandbars and tell them they don’t leave the river till they reach a workable agreement. have them sit by her waters, hear the wrens and ravens, watch the eddies and rapids, observe the inscriptions of the ancient ones, in solitude be changed by the experience…just a wild pollyanish thought…
It is a more reasonable proposal than how decision-making is being conducted right now. Let them get sunburned and drink muddy river water, may the side effects induce a faster pace toward a better plan to care for our beloved Colorado River.
I love the Colorado River Negotiating Team! It should really be like this! They should be meeting out on The River on a sandy beach with the wind whipping their hair and stinging their eyes while the Sun bakes down on their burnt faces. Get real! Come down from the Ivory Towers and get real. And refuse to meet without the minnows and ravens and humpback chubs who are the true residents of this river country. And look up! See the large soaring red-headed ugly birds looking down at you—old Ed reincarnated to keep an eye on you politicians.
Thanks for the old Abbey and Katie Lee footage! Good for my soul.❤️🩹
Hope the business venture goes well—Glen Canyon Backcountry Club sounds awesome. Always good to see Katie Lee written about and quoted: she's a true canyon country legend. Here's hoping the states and reclamation gods manage to wrangle a fair and ecologically-minded agreement for (and with) the Colorado River.
Thank you! I am meditating with every cell in my water body that the river is cared for through all of this, but I also know we cannot just trust the bureaucracy to do the right thing. The Colorado River needs our voices to advocate for her louder than ever!!!
Absent several years of average to above-average snowpack (a couple decades at least) up in the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, or some kind of restraint from the bloomers of deserts and the builders of suburbs, the best solution would be to fill Lake Mead or else modify Glen Canyon Dam’s outdated plumbing by allowing the river to bypass the dam before (and should) dead pool break bad, as proposed by Glen Canyon Institute and Wade Graham. Ultimately, Nature, in her own sweet time, will determine the outcome, regardless the needs of our species. At best we’ll probably get a deal that Upper and Lower Basin water users will have to learn not to hate. Hopefully the tribes get a fair say and a fair deal—their culture and lifeways are tied to the river. I also hope that an effort is made to restore the entire watershed where possible, from the High Country and Canyons, to the Delta and the Gulf. A river needs to river if the earth is to breathe. Either that or it’s back to brass tacks with Hayduke, Bonnie, Doc Sarvis and Seldom Seen.
Mo there is an article today in the NY Times about the River issues. The scariest part in the article is how any Dept of Interior plan will require presidential approval. That is my greatest fear, having the Algae King making unilateral decisions, based on his own greed. It is the trifecta of events, the end of the river compact, record drought, and empty reservoirs. We can all see the lawyers getting rich…
Prayer. That's all it will take, if everyone prayed, this mess would all go away...LOL!
Speaking of Katie's Drinking Song.... did the Returning Rapids Old Fashioned make the trip!?!
Congrats on you two's new venture!
With temps over 100 we thought better of subjecting ourselves to Bourbon and brought ample canned river water, aka Tecate! We need to start praying (& voting) for the decision makers to move along!
Amen, sister! and River Water for the win on hot river days!
Glad you are back and I can selfishly enjoy your writing! Looks like a grand trip, pun intended, the river game of competing states was spot on. It is a complete mess. I have read the 7 options from the Dept of Interior and can’t quite get a handle on how that will be regulated and monitored.
the current negotiation process is still a dystopian nightmare circus. Yep
Best
Mo
Thanks for reading and tuning in to the ongoing water circus.
morgan…i tink you are onto something…take one representative from each decision making group (including each tribe), put them on the river with a facilitator and scribe, convene three successive meetings on three sandbars and tell them they don’t leave the river till they reach a workable agreement. have them sit by her waters, hear the wrens and ravens, watch the eddies and rapids, observe the inscriptions of the ancient ones, in solitude be changed by the experience…just a wild pollyanish thought…
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It is a more reasonable proposal than how decision-making is being conducted right now. Let them get sunburned and drink muddy river water, may the side effects induce a faster pace toward a better plan to care for our beloved Colorado River.
I love the Colorado River Negotiating Team! It should really be like this! They should be meeting out on The River on a sandy beach with the wind whipping their hair and stinging their eyes while the Sun bakes down on their burnt faces. Get real! Come down from the Ivory Towers and get real. And refuse to meet without the minnows and ravens and humpback chubs who are the true residents of this river country. And look up! See the large soaring red-headed ugly birds looking down at you—old Ed reincarnated to keep an eye on you politicians.
Thanks for the old Abbey and Katie Lee footage! Good for my soul.❤️🩹
Ed was overseeing the gathering with the Turkey vultures circling overhead!
I read "Dominy formation" and thought what? and then said I bet it's mud. Yup. I was correct.
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Hope the business venture goes well—Glen Canyon Backcountry Club sounds awesome. Always good to see Katie Lee written about and quoted: she's a true canyon country legend. Here's hoping the states and reclamation gods manage to wrangle a fair and ecologically-minded agreement for (and with) the Colorado River.
Thank you! I am meditating with every cell in my water body that the river is cared for through all of this, but I also know we cannot just trust the bureaucracy to do the right thing. The Colorado River needs our voices to advocate for her louder than ever!!!
Absent several years of average to above-average snowpack (a couple decades at least) up in the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, or some kind of restraint from the bloomers of deserts and the builders of suburbs, the best solution would be to fill Lake Mead or else modify Glen Canyon Dam’s outdated plumbing by allowing the river to bypass the dam before (and should) dead pool break bad, as proposed by Glen Canyon Institute and Wade Graham. Ultimately, Nature, in her own sweet time, will determine the outcome, regardless the needs of our species. At best we’ll probably get a deal that Upper and Lower Basin water users will have to learn not to hate. Hopefully the tribes get a fair say and a fair deal—their culture and lifeways are tied to the river. I also hope that an effort is made to restore the entire watershed where possible, from the High Country and Canyons, to the Delta and the Gulf. A river needs to river if the earth is to breathe. Either that or it’s back to brass tacks with Hayduke, Bonnie, Doc Sarvis and Seldom Seen.
Mo there is an article today in the NY Times about the River issues. The scariest part in the article is how any Dept of Interior plan will require presidential approval. That is my greatest fear, having the Algae King making unilateral decisions, based on his own greed. It is the trifecta of events, the end of the river compact, record drought, and empty reservoirs. We can all see the lawyers getting rich…