Letter From The Desert: The river no one sees
The desert's rivers are tortured things.
The Colorado lies pinioned, semiconscious, drawn by bridges and quartered by dams. Someday an atmospheric river storm will pinpoint the Glen Canyon Dam at a vulnerable moment, and failing, that dam will loose a torrent of flood and silt that will destroy each of the downstream dams in turn. Until then the Colora…
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