Episodes

With support from the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies, Utah Rivers Council, and Colorado River and Trail Expeditions, Lifeblood is a 6-part audio documentary, produced and narrated by me, Evelyn Baher-Murphy. When I firs...

The Colorado River has flowed from source to sea for 6 million years. It is old. Older than most things. And people have lived in relationship with the river for 1000's of years. Their descendants still call the river home. Y...

At Lee's Ferry, in Northern Arizona, on the western edge of the Navajo Nation, the Colorado River basin is divided into two regions. The Upper Basin includes the states upstream of Lee's Ferry - Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and N...

Construction of Glen Canyon Dam was completed in 1963 . As Lake Powell rose behind the 710-foot concrete wall, archaeologists raced to document hundreds of cultural sites before they were inundated. But the loss extended far ...

What happens when the foundation of the system that built the West starts to crack? In the early 2000s, the Colorado River Basin entered what climate scientists refer to as a megadrought , the driest period in over 1,200 year...

When Lake Powell was full, many environmentalists believed Glen Canyon was lost forever, drowned beneath hundreds of feet of water. But today, with lake levels at historic lows, over 100,000 acres of Glen Canyon have re-emerg...

Today, more dams are being removed in the U.S. than are being built. But what does that mean for Glen Canyon Dam? To answer that question, I spoke to conservation organizations, scientists, recreaters, and state and federal w...