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#1 We were flying over Rocky Mountain National Park, thirty miles to the northwest. Our pilot, David Kunkel, was navigating with the help of an iPad Mini. People don't usually think altitude is affecting them, but if you ask them to count backward from a hundred by sevens, they have trouble.
#2 I looked up Kunkel on Google and was dismayed to discover that he had landed...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks,...