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Colorado River Delta

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Jeffrey P Cohn, Colorado River Delta: .

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Osvel Hinojosa Huerta paddles his canoe across the Cienega de Santa Clara one bright, warm fall day. The cienega, a 14,000-acre lake and marshland, lies near where the Colorado River flows into the Gulf of California in Mexico. Thick rows of cattails and tasseltopped reeds line the shore, providing habitat for the endangered Yuma clapper rail. The cienega’s shallow waters hold tilapia, catfish, carp, and largemouth bass, as well as desert pupfish, another endangered species. Overhead appear widgeons, cormorants, terns, pelicans, and herons. “This is the largest wetland in the delta,� says Hinojosa, a PhD candidate in wildlife biology at the University of Arizona in Tucson and director of Sonoran Desert conservation for Pronatura, [...]

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