As water levels continue to drop at Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah and Arizona, the National Park Service has launched a website dedicated to tracking which boat ramps are operational.
Since 2001, declining water levels due to climate change and 20 years of drought have reshaped Lake Powell’s shoreline, said park staff.
- Significant changes to the shoreline will affect usability of boat launch ramps throughout the year, especially in warmer months. Visitors are asked to plan ahead and prepare for longer lines, limited parking and congestion at boat ramps and docks. To relieve launch ramp congestion, you should ready your boat at a nearby parking lot before driving to launch ramps. View the current status of your preferred launch destination before heading to the lake.
- On Lake Powell, boaters should be aware that as water levels drop, channels may narrow leading to increased boat congestion. Boaters should exercise caution in all areas of Lake Powell. Availability of restrooms, floating walkways, pump out, fuel and convenient stations may vary. View the current status of on-lake facilities.
There are many new places to explore as water levels change, and the scenic shoreline is always evolving. Check current lake levels to plan ahead and prepare for your visit to Glen Canyon.
For real-time updates on the elevation of Lake Powell, visit this site.
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Can't just report "due to 20 years of drought", gotta get the political rhetoric "climate change" into the story.
Well what do you think has caused this 20 year drought. It's not politically rhetoric, it's just fact.
Gonna feel silly when we all die from rhetoric
My thoughts exactly!!!
You know the earth was covered in water at one time ..climate change ..we are just witnessing change in the earth ..been happening for millions of years can't stop it so roll with it
For all you people out there who are uneducated about how this whole mess started, try reading the book Cadillac desert. The b******* was flying back in the twenties. All these dams originally were developed to serve 4 million people not 40. Read the book, it will definitely open your eyes. It's all about politics.
"Climate Change" is hardly political rhetoric. It's also not something that's going to happen. It's happening right now before our eyes. This is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. If there was any political rhetoric, it was your need to publish a snide comment.
Do you not consider twenty years of drought a change in climate? Where did politics come in?
Exactly, or that millions of people are moving to a desert and want the same amount of water they used in non desert regions. They are pulling the water for supplying water to Lake mead and every person that thinks expanding Las Vegas is a great idea
Accurate terms aren't really political rhetoric unless one's reality is based on inaccurate - and partisan - perceptions.
Yes, because observations about our changining climate, which has changed vastly over billions of years, is a very "political" topic.
Early in ths 20+ year drought the increasing shallow waters and extending outward of boatramps revealed that the then operators of Waheep Marina had been dumping replaced boat batteries off their docks. We may yet discover more mischief as the waters pull back.
Drought, climate change, global warming...call it what you will, there is ample evidence human activity is exacerbating the situation. Is it really politics to want to minimize the effects so we can "roo with it" a little better?
Climate change is a fact of life on this planet which has been evolving fo billions of years. Rhetoric is only in the eye of the beholder.
Climate change has happened forever-However, the current warming is happening much faster than normal due to MAN MADE causes, cprimarily, but not limited to greenhouse gasses. It is not politics to point out that this will decimate the ecosystems in the west, while at the same time making areas of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and parts of Southern California virually unihabitable by the end of the century if we do nothing.
Ranger1, - Virtually every forecast based on a link between greenhouse gasses and climate change have been proven wrong. Further for every acre that is made "virually (sic) unihabitable", there will be another acre that will be more conducive to life. Not to mention man's and nature's ability to adjust.
Yup.
And those folks up in Seattle and Portland are doing some real fancy "adjusting" right now, aren't they?
On top of that, just think of the MONEY all those air conditioner manufacturers are gonna make. If you're a greedy capitalist, this is a wonderful opportunity to make big bucks until water becomes so scarce that wars break out among people desperate for a drink or some food. Even then, the blessings will still flow as the gun makers reap the financial benefits.
The only reasons anyone can try to claim it's impossible for human activities to change the earth are greed and stupidity . . . with stupidity being primary.
Intelligent people, however, are capable of understanding how we are helping to drive the changes in our atmosphere and what needs to be done to try to mitigate it.
Anon - if they are so "intelligent" why have they been so wrong?
Thanks for proving my point.
Why is climate prediction so complicated?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/moreaboutexperiment.shtml
"...the broad-brush conclusions drawn by models about global warming have been largely accurate for decades. And that means there’s high confidence that newer, improved models are also getting the basics right.":
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-models-got-it-right-o...
" climate models have come a long way from the simple energy balance and general circulation models of the 1960s and early ‘70s to today’s increasingly high-resolution and comprehensive general circulation models. “The fact that many of the older climate models we reviewed accurately projected subsequent global temperatures is particularly impressive given the limited observational evidence of warming that scientists had in the 1970s, when Earth had been cooling for a few decades”:
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-get...
LOL - The seventies were calling for global cooling. More recently there have been predictions of more and more severe hurricanes - didn't happen. Prediction the Artic Ice cap would disappear. Didn't happen. Predictions of more tornadoes. Didn't happen. Predictions of more and more severe forest fires. Didn't happen. The list of failed predictions is virtually endless.
None of that has happened? What planet do you live on?
Planet Earth - Mike - Do a little research on your own rather than getting spoon fed the propaganda from the alarmist.
Katirna - If there is a trend over the last 130 years, it is toward being wetter, not dryer. www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-drought
A quote from the EPA page:
(edited to fix link that contributes facts rather than fiction)
I am puzzled why posters here continue to engage with the right-wing trolls who contribute nothing of value to this site.