this is the last Dam on the Colorado
River from here on there are no more
dams but of course pretty much from here
on there's any more water either
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five years ago here at Morales damn the
gates were opened for really the first
trans boundary environmental flow I
think anywhere and what that flow called
the pulse flow was intended to do is to
try to recreate some of the spring flood
that happened down here before all the
dams were constructed on the Colorado
River
you could really call it a big landscape
scale experiment we wanted to find out
how many trees and other vegetation
would spring up and we wanted to find
out was that enough water to reach the
reach the Gulf of California
I lost my bet I didn't think it would
other people did and they want
I saw the poles flowing action it was
really excited because my husband had
our son in a backpack with the three of
us were like trying to find the letter
stream moving forward it was by the
sunset that we got to be there and my
son was played at the sand and in the
water moving in and it was amazing
para las comunidades de la region
fewness fiesta durante el tiempo que
duro lujo pulls o los medios de
comunicación locales la ciudad a Nia LRA
sociales no hablan de otra cosa y sobre
todo fue muy bonito que la gente Rica no
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one third of the water comes from the
NGOs who buy or lease water rights for
Mexican farmers one third of the water
comes from the US side and one third of
the water comes from the country of
Mexico this is a bi-national
project and in a time when you know
you'd think tensions between the US and
Mexico would be high you come to the
Delta and people sort of really
collaborate with each other from both
sides of the border in this project what
we've been doing is some repeat
photography where we've react you pied
some sites where photographs are taken
of the landscape just before the pulse
low in 2014 just to see how much it
changed in the past five years and also
as a record of sort of conditions today
as a way of telling us five years from
now how much things might have changed I
think can be challenging sometimes to
find the exact location especially
because we're using GPS that have some
error also they were marketers set up
but it's really hard to keep your
markers in this area
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the delta is along the Pacific Flyway a
major migratory pathway so sometimes I
say if you're a duck hunter in North
Dakota you should care about the Delta
because your ducks come through here and
they stop here and they they bulk up
they feed and they drink and then they
fly further on so it's not just a local
issue its regional in a pretty large
region at that plant is de del fuoco
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we're at a site called unit Co and it's
a site that prono tora plans to use in
the future for restoration purposes what
we're looking at here is actually an old
meander of the Colorado River that's
been completely dried out and the reason
we're here is to sort of record what
this place looked like before the
restoration activities began in about
five years time my hope that this is
going to look like the Miguel Altamont
site that has five years of growth of
cottonwoods and willows basically a wall
of green in the middle of this dry claim
I started studying the Delta in 1992
when I visited some sites in the
northern Gulf of California and the
students and I were along on that trip
just exploring and we found these
beaches that were just made of
completely of shells and one of the most
puzzling things we found or didn't find
I guess is we couldn't find very many
live individuals of the species that we
were finding as dead shells and we
couldn't figure that out until we
realized the whole environment of the
Upper Gulf of California had changed the
salinity of the upper Gulf had gone up
and this species liked fresher water
than it then is there now
so I gradually became part of I'll say
the Delta community and one of the
attractions really of the Delta
communities I really liked all the
people and I liked working with a
project of this scale that I would say
20 or certainly 30 years ago nobody
thought was possible we are in the
middle of laguna grande restoration area
and it has more than 700 acres of
riparian forest
this is cottonwoods and willows and it's
the densest and largest riparian forest
along the river in Mexico if we look
around all this forest wasn't here five
years ago
Mexicali which is the closest city is a
large city and it's mostly industrial so
Kitson people are used to being inside
and when we bring school kids here even
when they just above the school bus it's
a very big surprise
and we've gotten kids from the normal
excitement like saying wow what is this
place - kids crying we are planting a
little seed of curiosity to be in touch
with nature again
when you look at the actual amounts of
water that are being delivered here
through this Agreement compared to the
amounts of water that go to agriculture
in the United States or agriculture in
Mexico to cities in the US the cities in
Mexico this is really a teeny little
drop and that teeny little drop is doing
an enormous amount of good people ask me
sort of how much water would it take to
restore the Delta and I have to turn the
question around and say well how much
nature do you want
that's a societal values kind of
question the whole Delta is not going to
be restored simply because agriculture
is too important the cities are too
important but I think we can afford
enough water to restore a ribbon of
green from the border all most of the
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