A lifelong collector of antique pocket watches, Craig Duling has run the Heritagepocketwatch.com website since 2014. Craig Duling is also a seasoned outdoorsman who has rafted on a number of rivers, including the Colorado River. Spanning 1,450 miles, the Colorado River stretches throughout seven different U.S. states as well as northwestern Mexico. The head of the river begins in the Rocky Mountain National Park, which sits at an elevation of around 9,000 feet. As it moves toward the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the Colorado loses more than half of its elevation. For most of its length, the river flows at a depth of around 20 feet, but there are regions that are as shallow as 6 feet or as deep as 90 feet. Many also know the Colorado for its mix of both slow-moving portions and rapids. As part of the entire Colorado River basin, the Colorado drains a space of more than 240,000 square miles. The far reach of the river has made it easy for communities to use it as a source of irrigation for over 1,000 years. Today, agricultural entities draw from the Colorado to water more than 5 million acres of farmland. In addition, nearly 20 million individuals use the river as a water source. Leave a Reply. |
AuthorBefore accepting his current position, Craig Duling served as an engineer with Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, California. Archives
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