‘A portion of paradise’: how the drought is bringing a lost US canyon back to life
by Annette McGivney from Environment | The Guardian on (#6C53S)
Record dryness has restored an ecosystem under Lake Powell, the country's second-largest reservoir. Is it time to see it as a national park rather than a storage tank'?
One night in May 2003, I found myself in search of a disappearing lake.
A friend and I had ventured to the Hite Marina on Lake Powell to see what America's second-largest reservoir looked like after three years of record drought. In search of a camping spot, we drove down a boat ramp that just a few years earlier was bustling with boaters. Now it sat eerily on a dry lakebed.
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