2008 High-Flow Experiment: Media Releases & Kit
Media Releases
- Interior Secretary Kempthorne Launches Grand Canyon High Flow Experiment (Department of the Interior - Released 3/5/2008)
- Reclamation Releases Final EA and FONSI Authorizing High-Flow and Steady Flow Experiments on the Colorado River (Bureau of Reclamation - Released 2/29/2008)
- Experimental flow not expected to impact Lees' Ferry fishery (Arizona Game and Fish Department - Released 2/28/2008)
- Reclamation Releases Environmental Assessment for Public Comment on Proposed High-Flow and Steady Flow Experiment on the Colorado (Bureau of Reclamation - Released 2/9/2008)
- Proposed experimental flow not expected to impact Lees Ferry fishery (Arizona Game and Fish Department - Released 2/8/2008)
- The Department of the Interior has proposed an experiment using high flows from Glen Canyon Dam to study and improve Colorado River resources in Grand Canyon National Park (Released 1/17/2008)
Multimedia
- MSNBC - Flooding the Grand Canyon
- NPR - Motives of Grand Canyon Flush Questioned
- CNN - Flood started in Grand Canyon
- NPR - Grand Canyon Flush Aims to Revive Colorado River
- CBS News - Man-Made Flood
- Podcast: Opening a Dam to Study and Improve Resources in Grand Canyon --John Hamill, USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center
- Colorado River High Flow Experiment 2004 -- YouTube
Press Articles
- Mar 17, 2008
- The Salt Lake City Tribune - Grand Canyon flood: Dam release tapped power to build beaches
- Mar 14, 2008
- Geotimes - The Grand Canyon's shifting sands
- Mar 05, 2008
- Mar 01, 2008
- AZ Daily Sun - Interior OKs Canyon flood
- Feb 29, 2008
- AZ Daily Sun - Grand Canyon flood begins Wednesday
- Jan 18, 2008
- AZ Daily Sun - Interior OKs Canyon flood
- AZ Daily Sun - Grand Canyon flood begins Wednesday
- GovExec - Agencies propose flooding Grand Canyon to improve critical habitat
- Tucson Citizen - Grand Canyon may see water surge
- Arizona Daily Star - Fed plans surge of water through Grand Canyon