Federal agencies have finished digging out a side channel below Glen Canyon Dam that's been a breeding ground for nonnative ...

Dam maintenance and non-native fish reduction efforts led the government to reject an environmentally restorative flood in ...

This 1961 Information Agency film covered the first years of construction of the Glen Canyon dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring ...

If you’ve seen pictures advertising Arizona, or read travel books, then I’m almost certain you have a good idea of what the famous Horseshoe Bend looks like. If not, here it is… This iconic scene […] ...

Melissa Sevigny never wanted to raft the Colorado River. Somewhere between “outdoorsy” and “adventurous,” she wasn’t enough of an adrenaline junkie to seek out days of isolation beneath ...

Talk of dismantling Glen Canyon Dam once it reaches dead-pool status ... and the National Environmental Protection Act. Stopping construction now also won’t reverse the damage that has already ...

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will begin ... of smallmouth bass in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam. Construction is planned to be completed by June, with equipment staging in ...

Why We Need to Abolish the Bureau of Reclamation and Tear Down Glen Canyon Dam.” But after the incoming Trump administration announced the forthcoming establishment of a “Department of ...

It was created by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in the 1960s, primarily as a means of water storage, hydroelectric power generation, and recreation. Glen Canyon is the name of the canyon ...

Under construction from 1956 to 1966, the dam forms Lake Powell behind it, the second-largest manmade reservoir in the U.S. Conceived of before the Hoover Dam, but built later, Glen Canyon helps ...

Glen Canyon Dam, which creates the second-largest reservoir ... As far as engineering solutions go, environmentalists advocate for the construction of bypass tubes, which are tunnels around ...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will examine the possibility of drilling tunnels through Glen Canyon Dam to ensure water can pass through it at low Lake Powell elevations, two knowledgeable sources ...