A river doesn’t run through it
By Michael Frank, Adventure Journal on February 16th, 2012
The Colorado river is, as writer Jon Waterman puts it, “A testament of what happens when we ask too much of a limited resource. It disappears.” Waterman ought to know. In 2008 he tried to float the entirety of the 1,450-mile Colorado, only to come up a few hundred miles shy of the Sea of Cortez…on dried up river bed he had to walk for a week. In an editorial partially about that trip, he writes about the fallout in Mexico for fishing, people, and an array of species clinging to life without a river that flowed freely for six million years.
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