Press & Presentations

Returning Rapids Project Documents San Juan River Recovery

Moab Sun News | Heather Daigle | July 17, 2025

Sediment Stories

University of Utah College of Science | David Pace | January 24, 2025

The Fight to Save the colorado river

Great Salt Lake Collaborative | Emma Pitts | November 5, 2024

Will Lake Powell become lake mud? Inside the growing sediment crisis

Deseret News | Emma Pitts | November 2, 2024

Questions bubble up as Lake Powell’s ‘volcanoes’ erupt greenhouse gases

Salt Lake Tribune | Alysha Lundgren | October 5, 2024

Making Waves in the Moab Community

Outward Bound Blog | May 10, 2024

Meet Mike DeHoff

Voyage Utah | March 13, 2024

Glen Canyon Dam has Created a World of Mud

Writers on the Range | Dave Marston | March 4, 2024

Humans Killed Cataract Canyon. It Brought Itself Back to Life

Rolling Stone | Cassidy Randall | Photos by Len Necefer | February 18, 2024

Citizen Scientists Document a Recovering Colorado River

Smithsonian Magazine Online | Margaret Osborne | January 25, 2024

Navigating the waters of Cataract Canyon’s North Wash Boat Ramp

Moab Sun News | Emma Renly | January 12, 2024

Cataract Canyon boat ramp conflict could ‘crush’ rafting trips

Moab Times Independent | Gwen Dilworth | November 28, 2023

Returning Rapids Bring New Life to the Colorado River

Moab Times Independent | Guest Opinion, Jordana Barrack | July 27, 2023

Mapping Changes to Cataract Canyon

Moab Sun News | Alison Harford | July 27, 2023

The Returning Rapids Project: Good News From the Beleaguered Colorado River

Mighty Arrow Foundation Blog | Jordana Barrack | May 2, 2023

As the waters of Lake Powell Recede

In the Americas with David Yetman | Season 10 Episode 107 | 2023

The Colorado River is Running Dry, but Nobody Wants to Talk About the Mud

New York Times | Dale Maharidge | March 20, 2023

Mud-caked “terra incognita” emerges in Glen Canyon as Lake Powell Declines to historic low

KUNC | Luke Runyon | August 4, 2022

Dawn on Glen

Glen Canyon Institute River Talk Blog | Mike DeHoff | July 18, 2022

Who is in Charge of the Mud?

Natural Resources Journal | Mike DeHoff | Summer 2022

The Colorado River is in Crisis. And it’s getting worse.

Washington Post | By Karin Brulliard, Photos by Matt McClain, Videos by Erin Patrick O’Connor | May 14, 2022

Rafters Struggle to use a Colorado River Boat Ramp

Salt Lake Tribune | Video by Francisco Kjolseth | April 2022

As Lake Powell Shrinks, the Colorado River is Coming back to life

Salt Lake Tribune | By Zak Podmore, Photos by Francisco Kjolseth | Fall 2021

Rapid Returns

Sierra | Frederick Reimers | October 7, 2021

Colorado River levels continue to decline. What does this mean for the future?

Scripps Media | Jessie Cohen | September 16, 2021

40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River, and Now It’s Drying Up

Vice News | August 14, 2021

The lost canyon under lake powell

The New Yorker | Elizabeth Kolbert | August 9, 2021

Cataract Canyon without Lake Powell: A monumental legacy of dried mud

KSL TV | John Hollenhorst | June 14, 2021

Lost Glen Canyon wonders reemerge as Lake Powell dries up: Side canyons are teeming with life after Utah’s largest lake drops 140 feet over two decades.

The Salt Lake Tribune | Brian Maffly | June 2021 Note: Subscription may be required to view article

Utah state university center for colorado river studies webinar

June 15, 2020

Peter Lefebvre and Mike DeHoff share their project findings and matched photographs in the talk.

Presentation to the Utah Geological Association

January 13, 2020

The Returning Rapids Project presentation begins 7:40 into the recording.