{"id":20085,"date":"2022-12-27T19:11:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/in-a-river-out-of-time-raft-group-explores-dying-green-and-colorado-rivers\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T19:11:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:11:43","slug":"in-a-river-out-of-time-raft-group-explores-dying-green-and-colorado-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/in-a-river-out-of-time-raft-group-explores-dying-green-and-colorado-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018A River Out of Time,\u2019 Raft Group Explores Dying Green and Colorado Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-183485\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n\t\t<meta itemprop=\"image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.gearjunkie.com\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-27-at-11.15.57-AM-300x177.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"SlxCjwDRhGU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A River Out of Time\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SlxCjwDRhGU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline-wrapper grid-x\">\n<p class=\"byline\">December 27, 2022<span class=\"pipe\">\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span>By <a href=\"https:\/\/gearjunkie.com\/author\/will_brendza\" title=\"Posts by Will Brendza\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Brendza<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gjan\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<div>Support us! GearJunkie could earn a small fee from affiliate hyperlinks on this article. <a href=\"https:\/\/gearjunkie.com\/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn extra<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"lead-in\">An unlikely crew of scientists, artists, educators, and river lovers recreate a legendary river journey to see how local weather change and human growth have modified issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1869, John Wesley Powell, an American explorer, took off on a historic journey.<\/strong> He and an organization of males loaded up in dories and shoved off from <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nps.gov\/dino\/learn\/historyculture\/john-wesley-powell.htm#:~:text=On%20May%2024%2C%201869%2C%20John,float%20them%20in%20their%20entirety.\" rel=\"noopener\">Green River, Wyoming<\/a><\/strong>. The group wouldn\u2019t be the primary to discover the Green and Colorado Rivers, however they might be the primary to drift them of their entirety.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred years later, in \u201cA River Out of Time,\u201d a bunch of individuals load up in rubber river rafts, charting the identical course as Powell. But, issues are drastically completely different this time. Not simply due to all of the human enlargement and growth, however as a result of local weather change is having a severe impact on these once-bountiful our bodies of water.<\/p>\n<p>Which is what this group of scientists, artists, educators, and river lovers is there to doc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDropping into this trip, I mean, it\u2019s completely different from what Powell experienced,\u201d says Ben Kraushaar in \u201cA River Out of Time.\u201d He famous for instance, \u201cRight now we\u2019re on a reservoir which wasn\u2019t here when Powell rode this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dams, reservoirs, farmland irrigation, and local weather change have all stymied or siphoned off a lot of the water that used to run from Wyoming, down the Green and Colorado Rivers, all the way in which to the Pacific Ocean. Human demand is stretching the rivers\u2019 potential to produce the water we want \u2014 particularly within the face of local weather change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA River Out of Time\u201d follows this group alongside their journey to recreate Powell\u2019s journey. 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