After decades of drought, the reservoir created by Glen Canyon Dam has dwindled to just a third full. ... If that mud could move through the Grand Canyon, like it did before the dam, ...

Glen Canyon Dam, completed in 1964 near Page, ... accused Jewell of “making long-term decisions before the clock runs out” on President Barack Obama’s administration. ...

When the San Juan River flows out of the San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado, it contributes 15% of Lake Powell’s water. But there’s a problem.

“Allowing the Colorado River to flow freely through Glen Canyon was a radical idea in the 1990s, but the opposite is true today,” writes Zak Podmore, a contributor to Writers on the Range.

After decades of drought, the reservoir created by Glen Canyon Dam has dwindled to just a third full. Now, as the San Juan River flows toward Lake Powell, it rambles over a huge pancake of mud ...

When the San Juan River flows out of the San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado, it contributes 15% of Lake Powell’s water. But there’s a problem: The river carries a hefty 55% of the sediment ...