Feature: Colorado River
Regions: Rocky Mountain and Southwest Desert
Topics: C - G - O - T

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The Colorado
A River Run Dry

"The man they call El Coyote pushed his blue dinghy away from the bulrushes, stroked through the murky brown residue of the Colorado River, and began to pull up his gill net. Halfway through pulling in the 130-foot net, he found an eight-inch mullet that landed with a lonely plunk in an orange pail at his feet. Minutes passed before I heard the plastic thud again, and by the time the whole net lay empty in the boat, there were just three fish in his bucket."

Jim Carrier explores the fortunes of the the Colorado River, from its beginnings to its sludgy end.

Carrier, Jim. "The Colorado: A River Run Dry," June 1991, National Geographic, 4-32