Recent Proposal from the Glen Canyon Institute

http://www.glencanyon.org/glen_canyon/fill-mead-first

Interim Snapshots

Trans-Basin Diversion explanation/video

http://www.roaringfork.org/sitepages/pid170.php#.UScJ7lTVFCZ

Readings

 

“Endangered Colorado: Is it Too Late to Save One of Our Greatest Rivers?”  --- Wade

Davis, River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado  Dec. 19, 2012

http://www.alternet.org/environment/endangered-colorado-it-too-late-save-one-our-greatest-rivers

 

“Muddy Waters: Silt and the Slow Demise of Glen Canyon Dam” --- Craig Childs, High

Country News  5/17/11

 https://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/muddy-waters-silt-and-the-slow-demise-of-glen-canyon-dam

INTERIM Itinerary

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Water in the West

February 16 – 22, 2013

                                                                         

Saturday 16^th               9:30 – 10:45                Roll session

                                      1 pm                            Billy Gavette
                                                                          Local/CRMS history of water use

                                       3:30                             Zak Podmore

                                                                          Colorado River and the West

                                                                                                             

Sunday 17^th                  9:00                             Skiing

                                      afternoon                     Readings and Patagonia Rising
                                                                                                                        

 

Monday 18^th                9:00 – 10:00               Jim Pokrandt

                                                                         Colorado River Conservation District

                                     1 pm                            Daniel Gonzalez (in Paonia)

                                                                         Farm Tour/Straw Bale houses

                                   

                                     5 pm                            Michael Soule (in Hotchkiss)

                                                                         Conservation Biologist

 

Tuesday 19^th              10:30 – 12:00              Solar Energy  International tour

                                                                                                       

                                    1 pm                            High Country News tour

 

Wednesday 20th         9 am                            Sarah Johnson
                                                                         Roaring Fork Conservancy
                                                                        (Trans-Basin Diversion)

                                   

                                1 pm                            Randy Udall

                                                                    Lesson on Energy

                                                                       

Thursday 21st            9 am                            Aspen Center for
                                                                        Environmental Studies

                                                                        (Micro-hydro and heat-pump
                                                                        systems)

Friday 22^nd                  CRMS                         Presentation of Learning

Student Participants

Skye Berman
15
San Diego, CA

Hobbies: Kayaking, surfing(in a kayak or on a board), hiking, Snowboarding, reading,

Kayaking history
I started Kayaking this year so I'm still pretty new. When I started I was stoked, but I made a lot of annoying mistakes which took a bit of the fun out of it.  Eventually I got the hang of it and am now am able to to the basics. We went on a 5 day kayaking trip that ended shortly after we crossed the state line into Utah.

What they’re excited about learning/experiencing.
I’m really excited to go to a different country as it is, but kayaking there is awesome. I want to practice what I have already learned as well as learn new tricks like hand rolls. I want to experience a different culture and make new memories that i can cherish for the rest of my life.


Sophie Kornick
16
Chicago
Hobbies
knitting kayaking snowboarding reading

Have been kayaking since 2011. I was on kayak team in spring 2012 and fall 2012. I have paddled multiple sections of the Colorado.

I am excited to see chile. I am excited to paddle the Grand Canyon and paddle in Chile. I am excited to meet many new people. I hope to learn about dams. I want to practice my Spanish. I hope to get my hand roll solid and my off-side roll. I am excited to see the water there it looks cool in photos I have seen. I want to take a lot of pictures.

Kimbrell Allen Larouche
16
Carbondale, Colorado.

My Hobbies are Kayaking, skiing, and Guitar.

Kayaking History:  I began kayaking at CRMS my freshman year on beginning kayaking.  Before that I had no river kayaking experience only ocean.  After beginning kayaking I joined the kayak team that proved to be more of a challenge.  We went to multiple competitions that included downriver, slalom, and freestyle.  Now I own my own kayak, a Jackson Rock Star and I want to pursue play boating.

What I’m excited for: Mostly, I am excited for the experience of kayaking in a new river.  However I am very excited for the whole trip and all that it has to offer.  I enjoy learning about the rivers because that is what I love.  I’m excited for the exchange in a Spanish speaking country and to meet the Chilean people on the trip and the people in general.  I want to help in preserving the rivers in Chile and help raise awareness to the people on the damage of the dams.  Kayaking in a new country and new rivers appeals to me.  I want to learn the Chilean culture and get to know its people.  I’m also very excited for the trip down the Grand Canyon and showing the exchange student our country and what it has to offer.