What would John Wesley Powell say today?
Powell was both an adventurer and a scientist. Perhaps that’s exactly what we need now to end the Colorado River stalemate.
Romancing the River: Dancing With Deadpool
Essayist George Sibley points out that we still harbor the romantic illusion that we can control the Colorado River. A new book of essays sees the river differently.
Why not create the Colorado River Compact they wanted in 1922?
Negotiations a century ago divided the river into two basins. That created problems. Why not scrap the artifice of two basins?
Dick Bratton and ‘A River Once More’
In 1958, when Dick Bratton began working as a lawyer, the Gunnison River Basin and many other parts of the West were on the cusp of a giant transformation in water. He bridged the past and future nicely.
The Colorado River Compact hasn’t aged well
George Sibley says it is time for the seven states to throw out the the now century-old compact and start over.
Fear along the Colorado River
George Sibley says worried debate in Colorado and other upper-basin states about how to avoid a Colorado River Compact curtailment is badly misplaced.
