The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado
River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert
canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches,
cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the
most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides
water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams, slaked off by
irrigation, and dried up by cities, the Green is crucial, overused,
and at risk, now more than ever. Fights over the river's water, and
what's going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding,
intractable, and only getting worse as the west gets hotter and
drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year.
As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter, Heather
Hansman knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to
see them from a different perspective-from the river itself. So she
set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to
paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the
experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet
paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo
and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other
people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a
foray into the present-and future-of water in the west.
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