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Riparian Management: Common Threads and Shared Interests. A western regional conference on river management strategies
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The Little Colorado River begins in the White Mountains of Arizona on the slopes of Mount Baldy and flows northwest where it meets the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park. The watershed is comprised of approximately 26,964 square miles in northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico (Arizona Department of Water Resources 1989). Over 69% of the watershed is managed by the Federal government while 21% of the watershed is privately owned. The Navajo Nation occupies the greatest portion of the public lands. The waters of the Little Colorado River and its watershed have many values; these include endangered fish, recreation, industry, irrigation, and sites sacred to Native-Americans. Published in Riparian Management:...
The headwaters of the San Juan River begin on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado. The headwaters, located at over 14,000 feet in eleÂvation, are the beginning of what down stream is to become the second largest tribuÂtary to the Colorado River (San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program, 1992). The San Juan River is located within the San Juan River Basin (Fig. 1) which drains approximately 38,000 square miles of south western Colorado, northwestern New MexiÂco, southeastern Utah, and northeastern Arizona. Many tributaries add to the San Juan with the largest being the Animas river. The San Juan River flows approximately 360 miles from headwaters in Colorado to the...
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