Record dryness has restored an ecosystem under Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir. Is it time to see it as ‘a national park rather than a storage tank’?
The federal government said Monday it will spend $250m over four years on environmental cleanup and restoration work around a drying southern California lake that’s fed by the depleted Colorado River.
California’s two largest reservoirs are at critically low levels, signaling that the state, like much of the US west, can expect a searing, dry summer ahead.
