[Awclist] [Fwd: Grand Canyon Adopt A Beach]

[Thomas Robey]

*TO:  awclist at swcp.com <mailto:awclist at swcp.com>*

*Subject: Grand Canyon Adopt A Beach Volunteers *

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*Celia Southwick is looking for people (who are going on a Grand Canyon 
River trip this year) who would be willing to take photos at the 
designated location of River Mile 12.2 (Left) known as Salt Wash Beach 
on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.*

 

*Last Year I recruited members and/or their friends who had trips on the 
Grand Canyon to help take pictures of a beach that I adopted as a 
Private Boater.  Usually GC River Guides do this because it is 
the guides who go down several times a year. By organizing a series of 
private trip volunteers who are willing to stop there briefly and help 
record the project we can accomplish the same thing.*

 

*This is now an 8 year Long-term-research project to help determine 
water release issues affecting the beaches.  The net result is that they 
are disappearing in the Grand and while the big releases last November 
resulted in beach build up in the upper canyon the beaches in the lower 
gorge and canyon did not fair so well.  Pictures now are of significance 
due to that release and can impact from the flow regime of water from 
the dam.*

 

*The Adopt A Beach Program can be checked out on the 
**http://www.gcrg.org/** web site (grand canyon river guides- of which 
anyone can be a member, not just guides).  Joe Polloch is the person I 
work with on this project.  The data is collected thru-out the year and 
the camera sent back in November.*

 

*The long and short of it - The beach I (we) have adopted is  River Mile 
12.2 Salt Wash Beach, so is early in the trip and the camera can be put 
away until the end.*

*I will coordinate the trips and make arrangements with individuals to 
get the Adopt-A-Beach Packet (w/ waterproof camera) to them and the 
return as well.*

*Aside from the project, the beach is a nice place for a lunch stop and 
there are Nevil's Inscriptions from the 1940’s on the cliffs above the 
sand bar.  It does not look like an ideal camp anymore but I suppose it 
could be used in a pinch if you need to (can send you photos on e-mail).*

 

*If you want to help please contact:*

*   ** Celia Southwick*

*    **rsouthwick at aol.com* <mailto:rsouthwick at aol.com>

*    505-266-8518*

*    or 505-239-4289*

*PS – I may be on a river trip so consider response time accordingly!*

 
Robert