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<br />Salt Lake Tribune - Utah <br /> <br />018G4 <br /> <br />Page I of 4 <br /> <br /> <br />MONDAY <br />November 29, 2004 <br /> <br />Quick Search <br /> <br />Enle1search lerm <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Advanced Search <br /> <br />News <br />Contents <br />Utah Politics <br />PolYQamy <br />Lon Hacking <br />Drouqht <br />Obltuanes <br />Archives <br />Rolly & Wells <br />Mullen <br />Reader Advocate <br />Weather <br /> <br />Opinion <br />Baqley Cartoons <br />Editorials <br />Commentary <br />Public Forum <br /> <br />Sports <br />Utah Jazz <br />BYU Couqars <br />Utah Utes <br />USU Aqqies <br />Prep Sports <br /> <br />Features <br />Film Finder <br />Arts <br />Travel <br />Home & Family <br />Health & Science <br />Food <br />Outdoors <br />The MIX <br />Faith <br />Entertainment <br />Lifestyle <br /> <br />Shopping <br />C1as5lfieds <br />Retail Ads <br />Cars/RVs <br /> <br />www.sltrib.co <br /> <br />WORlO I UTAH I BUSINESS I SPORTS I OPINION I FEATURES I CLASSIFIEDS <br /> <br />UnI\Jo.Artld!:: <br /> <br />fOOlArtKIe <br /> <br />EmaIl.MIt!c <br /> <br />ArtICle Last Upd<lted: 11/28/2004 01:34:28 AM <br /> <br />Restoring the canyon <br />DID THE BIG FLUSH WORK? Scientists may not know until next <br />year. But after a three-day trip down the river, early signs look <br />positive <br />Story by Mark Havnes <br /> <br />H.A;\iU c,\:\YO;\i :\ATlO:\AL '.,\RK - Yes, flushing out the Colorado River <br />may help rebuild shrinking sandbars. Yes, it may replenish endangered fish. <br />And, yes. it may rejuvenate the sensitive Grand Canyon ecosystem. <br />But there may be an even more langible reason for unleashing 224.000 acre- <br />t~et of water from Lake Powell over 21/2 days. as river stewards did last <br />week. <br />"It's aboulthe people," said Kanab river guide Arthur Thcvimn. <br />More Ihan 22.000 visilOrs gel drenched every year riding the river's roller- <br />coaster currents through Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona. So <br />anything lhat buoys lip those boat lrips will intlate public and privale colTers, <br />The ri\.cr runners already pump more than $20 million a year mto the area's <br />economy. <br />But did the Greal Gush of 2004 . unlike a previous attempt in 1996 _ <br />accomplish its miSSIon'! Scienlists won'l know for sure until nc.xI year. But <br />initial signs arc encouraging as the waler begins to recede. <br />"AnccdolalmfonnatlOn is coming back thai we arc seeing sand on beaches <br />Ihal could serve as a basis for !ish habitat and a healthy ecosystem." said JelT <br />Cross. direclor of lhe Gmnd Canyon's Science Center for Natural and Cultural <br />Resources. <br />Crews have begun gathering data from 22 experimenls along the n\'er. Afier <br />the Sunday-through-Tucsday waler release, thc Nallonal Park Sl'rvice tilled <br />three pontoon boats with scienllsts, oOicials. reporters and photographers for a <br />threc.day Inp down thc river - from Lce's Ferry, Ariol.. to just easl of l.ake <br />~tead -to check on lhose e.xperiments. <br />Scientists hope 10 re-eslablish the shriveling sandbars to creale backwaters <br />for endangered fish like Ihe humpback chub and give lhrill-seeking n\"er <br />runners more places to camp. dry ofr and soak 10 the grandeur of the Grand <br />Canyon. <br />Those sandbars have bct.'Il \.anishing because Glen Canyon Pam lraps 92 <br />percenl oflhe sand and sclhmenllhat would nonnally now down the river. <br /> <br />hup:l/www.sltrih.com/utah/ci _ 24 7 5618 <br /> <br />$t Gas GUI <br /> <br />Researc <br />gas <br />prices... <br /> <br />TITANI <br /> <br />1111 'R'IL\~ T 1\/111\1 <br /> <br />...-.---.. <br /> <br />now open <br />!i,r a limite <br />engagemer. <br /> <br />11129/2004 <br />