![]() What is the primary danger of the Colorado no longer being a river that reaches the sea? What effects are we seeing? Also, since I started raising children in Colorado several years ago, I have grown increasingly concerned what kind of future the west and future generations will face with diminishing water resources. My enchantment with that body of water, and news that the river that fed the sea stopped running in 1998, compelled me to put together another trip that would allow me to link the 800-mile Baja coastline with the 1,450-mile river. I took a sea kayaking journey down the length of the Sea of Cortez in 1993 and began paddling a bit south of the Colorado River Delta. ![]() What was the impetus behind a trip that started in your backyard? Both illustrate the sad state of the river, which no longer reaches the sea, as well as illuminate the looming water crisis facing a rapidly urbanizing West. His latest projects, the narrative book Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River and The Colorado River Flowing through Conflict, a collaboration with photographer Pete McBride, hit close to home. ![]() The Carbondale resident has become the foremost advocate for expedition as a means of activism, combining history, ecology, adventure and politics in his lifework to craft stories that make real-world impact. Jonathan Waterman has summited Denali in –70˚ winter temperatures and paddled the Northwest Passage solo, yet he is more than an adventurer. ![]() “Trespassing” under barbed wire on the Colorado headwaters. ![]()
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