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Two nations, one river: Managing ecosystem conservation in the Colorado River Delta

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Pitt, Jennifer, Luecke, Daniel F, Cohen, Michael J, Glenn, Edward P, and Valdes-Casillas, Carlos, Two nations, one river: Managing ecosystem conservation in the Colorado River Delta: .

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The Colorado River delta historically consisted of riparian, freshwater, brackish, and tidal wetlands that covered 1,930,000 acres and supported a legendary richness of plant, bird, and marine life. Dam construction and water diversions in the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century reduced the Delta to small areas of wetlands and brackish mudflats. The Delta is no longer a system that can be understood solely in terms of biology and hydrology; human actions, embedded within a complex institutional framework, have significantly altered and modified the Delta. In the last two decades, flood releases from reservoirs in the United States and agricultural return flows from both the United States and Mexico have begun to restore [...]

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