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(1) Pontius, D. 1997. Report to the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission. National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA. (2) Myers, T. 1998. Sediment Hydrology on the Colorado River, The Impacts of Draining Lake Powell. Prepared for the Glen Canyon Institute, Salt Lake City, UT. (3) Andrews, E.A. 1991. Sediment transport in the Colorado River basin. in Colorado River Ecology and Dam Management: Proceedings of a Symposium, May 24-25, Santa Fe, NM. pp. 54-75, National Academy Press, Washington, DC. (4) Zengel, S., Meretsky, V., Glenn, E., Felger, R., and D. Ortiz. 1995. Cienega de Santa Clara, a remnant wetland in the Rio Colorado delta (Mexico): vegetation distribution and the effects of water flow reduction. Ecological Engineering 4: 19-36. (5) Glenn, E., Garcia, J., Tanner, R., Congdon, C., and D. Luecke. 1999. Status of wetlands supported by agricultural drainage water in the Colorado River Delta, Mexico. Hortscience 34: 16-21. (6) Galindo-Bect, M., Glenn, E., Page, H., Fitzsimmons, K., Galindo-Bect, L., Hernandez-Ayon, J., Petty, R., Garcia-Hernandez, J., and D. Moore. 2000. Penaeid shrimp landings in the upper Gulf of California in relation to Colorado River freshwater discharge. Fisheries Bulletin 98: 222-225. (7) Cohen, M.J., Morrison, J.I., and E.P. Glenn. 1999. "Haven or Hazard: the Ecology and Future of the Salton Sea". Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security. Oakland, CA. (8) Meko, D., Stockton, C.W., and Boggess, W.R. 1995. The Tree-Ring Record of Severe Sustained Drought. Water Resources Bulletin 31(5): 789-801. (9) "Severe Sustained Drought, Managing the Colorado River System in Times of Water Shortage". 1995. The Powell Consortium, Arizona Water Resources Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Glossary acre–foot: The volume of water sufficient to cover an area of one acre to a depth of one foot; 43,560 cubic feet. af: abbreviation for acre-foot or acre-feet. aggradation: the building up of the level or slope of a riverbed, etc. by the deposit of sediment. kaf: abbreviation for thousands of acre-feet. maf: abbreviation for millions of acre-feet. refugia: islands of habitat in an otherwise inhospitable landscape. Task Force Members Steve Glazer, Chair Acknowledgements The Task Force gratefully acknowledges Jim Wechsler for his effort and expertise in final editing and completion of the report. We are grateful to Steve Trimble for his generous donation of photographs of the Colorado River Basin, which add visual content to the text of this report. We are indebted to many other people for their interest, insights, and contributions. We thank the Bureau of Reclamation, in particular, Randy Petersen and Bruce Moore of the Salt Lake Office, for answering our numerous questions and for supplying data, and we are truly indebted to Ed Glenn of the University of Arizona Environmental Research Laboratory for generously sharing his knowledge, opinions, and expertise on the Colorado River Delta. The insightful comments and general expertise of Jason Morrison and Michael Cohen of the Pacific Institute; Pam Hyde of Southwest Rivers; Dan McCool, the Director of The American West Center at the University of Utah; Bob Adler at the University of Utah College of Law; Rick Johnson from the Grand Canyon Trust; David Hogan of the Center for Biodiversity; John Fritschie of Defenders of Wildlife; Melinda Kassen of Trout Unlimited's Western Water Project; and Mindy Schlimgen-Wilson of American Rivers, all of whom took an active interest in our work, is acknowledged with gratitude. Finally, the Chairman is joined by the individual members of the Task Force in acknowledging each other for their good humor and hard work on a lengthy and complex volunteer project. Comments Please send comments to steve@hccaonline.org Photo: Colorado River, Kawuneeche Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO. Copyright Stephen Trimble. Report Main | Background
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