Listening to the Gila

10.27.23 – Rarely in the United States do we remember that rivers are living beings themselves—and they have something to teach us. With funding from The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder, Our Land’s Laura Paskus visited the Gila River, including a stretch that would have been changed forever if New Mexico had built on a controversial diversion. In this special segment, we consider what lessons the Upper Gila River holds for the future—and the rest of the Colorado River Basin. 

Correspondent: Laura Paskus 

Guests: 
Martha Cooper, Freshwater Director, The Nature Conservancy  
Joe Saenz, Chihe´ne (Warm Springs Apache)