#ColoradoRiver: Great American River, The Colorado — Greg Hobbs #crwua2015

Friend of Coyote Gulch, Greg Hobbs, gave the opening talk at last week’s Colorado River Water Users Association annual meeting and then went trekking around with wife Bobbie and granddaughter Joni. Those of you that know Greg expect a history lesson from him. Here’s his photo poem for you:

Great American River, The Colorado

https://www.yourwatercolorado.org/cfwe-education/headwaters-magazine/fall-2015-colorado-basin

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Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Colorado River Water Users Association

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Delph Carpenter’s 1922 Colorado River Basin Map, Mead and Powell

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Powell the Upper Basin

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Mead the Lower Basin

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Before us the River is

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Peoples tunnel to the Light

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Through which the River flows

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Through the land

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Out of the great Depression

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Arch of Water and Rock

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Under a Western Sun

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Greg Hobbs 12/19/2015
Reprinted with permission ©2015 Greg Hobbs

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