Glen Canyon Dam, which creates the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., enables the distribution of Colorado River water throughout the West and generates power for seven states. It also has a ...

Glen Canyon is revealing itself. David Brower, the first executive director of the Sierra Club and a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, once said flooding Glen Canyon would be “America’s most ...

Newly discovered damage to part of the dam holding back America's second-largest reservoir has the 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River worried about their ability to get the water they ...

A recent memo published by the US Bureau of Reclamation raises concerns about the future of water management in the Colorado River basin. Glen Canyon Dam, substation (left) and bridge (in front of the ...

Decades into a megadrought, proponents of mothballing the 710-foot dam say now is the time to drastically rethink management of the depleted Colorado River. In the fall of 1956, President Dwight ...

As Lake Powell's water levels have dropped over decades of drought, the Glen Canyon is filling with verdant vegetation. Many areas of the canyon that have been submerged by the reservoir for decades ...

A new book about water management on the Colorado River offers treasures for at least four semi-distinct groups of readers: avid outdoor adventurers (particularly dusty river runner types); students ...

Cathedral in the Desert • David Brower sat back in his chair during the first board meetings of the Glen Canyon Institute in 1996 — white-haired, distinguished and almost entirely silent. Three ...

PAGE — Octavia Patno and her mom, a federal hydraulic engineer, stood on a narrow walkway at the base of Glen Canyon Dam Monday morning, their heads covered with hard hats. The Colorado River flowed ...

A few Western lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives are leaning on the Trump administration to investigate, and possibly roll back, a plan to manage invasive species in the Colorado ...