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Zak 🦦 Podmore

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Water, labor, outdoors / author of Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell’s Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River / formerly at The Salt Lake Tribune, Canoe & Kayak magazine / zakpodmore.com

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · 26d

Post-tornado paddle

Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · 27d

Spotted from Bluff, UT

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · 27d

“A lake full of boats is better than a canyon full of air.”
— @brenorbrophy.com, channeling Floyd Dominy

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Sep 5

Got to see Neil and MJ in the last three days, and even MJ playing Neil.

It’s gonna take a lot of love.

Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ha awesome!

Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 17

That’s a wrap. The train, the same one I boarded in Green River, arrived *ahead* of schedule.

Takeaway: no, we don’t have high-speed rail in the US. But we do have low-speed rail, and it’s by far the most civilized way to travel from rural southern Utah to Oakland.

Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 17

I called Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang a young-adult novel and they printed it in the Washington Post

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | The influence of Edward Abbey’s ‘Monkey Wrench Gang’ as it turns 50

Annie Proulx and others discuss how the classic novel about a quartet of environmentalist outlaws has aged

www.washingtonpost.com

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 17

Kim Stanley Robinson, oracle of Davis, I salute you sir 🫡

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 17

Made it to Sacramento, an excuse for my periodic reminder that if the great flood of 1862 were to happen today—even with CO River reservoirs at historic lows—lakes Powell and Mead would fill before the rain stopped. The Hoover and Glen Canyon dams would likely be destroyed

Great Flood of 1862 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 17

Truckee, got my chips cashed in

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 17

Reno’s famous ice & oil emporium

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 17

Good morning, Winnemucca, how are ya?

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 17

See you in 23 hours, Berkeley

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 17

🚂 ⏱️

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Morgan @cowaternerd.bsky.social · Aug 15

We’ve been closer to minimum probable than mid the last few years. Just sayin’ 👀

Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 15

Reclamation's updated reservoir projections were released today. Lake Powell could hit all-time lows next summer, threatening hydropower generation at the Glen Canyon Dam.

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Awaiting the Colorado River 24-Month Study

By John Fleck, Anne Castle, Eric Kuhn, Jack Schmidt, Kathryn Sorensen, and Katherine Tara As we await Friday’s (Aug. 15, 2025) release of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Colorado River 24-Month Study, …

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks! Time to #DrainIt

Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 15

Reclamation's updated reservoir projections were released today. Lake Powell could hit all-time lows next summer, threatening hydropower generation at the Glen Canyon Dam.

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks, Carol! I'm glad you enjoyed the book. Let the river run!

Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ironically, Imperial Valley farmers have a better solution for Glen and Grand Canyon health than these conservation groups: modify Glen Canyon Dam, prevent dead pool on Lake Powell, and restore Glen Canyon. savethecolorado.org/wp-content/u...

Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 12

In their "cooperative conservation" proposal for CO River management, these "environmental" groups claim partially refilling Lake Powell would help Grand Canyon. They ignore the remarkable ecological recovery already underway in Glen Canyon. waterforcolorado.org/wp-content/u...

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 12

Damn the dam, smash the bass

Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 12

When tributaries flash flood, the sediment they carry into the Colorado suppresses bass populations. Will it be enough to stop bass from establishing in the Grand? That's unclear. But bypassing the dam and allowing the muddy, warm Colorado to flow again, would likely help chub and hurt bass.

Assessing the potential for Smallmouth Bass population establishment in Grand Canyon

ABSTRACTObjective. The expansion of nonnative Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu into the Grand Canyon ecosystem downstream of Glen Canyon Dam is widely

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Zak 🦦 Podmore @zakpodmore.bsky.social · Aug 12

Low water levels in Lake Powell allowed invasive, predatory smallmouth bass to pass through the Glen Canyon Dam and into the Grand Canyon several years ago, threatening endangered humpback chub. Warmer releases from the dam have also likely benefitted chub, according to new study. 1/2

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