A BBC program on an reenactment of Powell's trip usuing historical wooden
boats has been showing on my local NPtv station. Interesting program.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 11:05 AM Angela R Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> https://www.usgs.gov/science-support/osqi/yes/resources-teachers/150th-anniversary-powell-expedition?qt-science_support_page_related_con=2#qt-science_support_page_related_con
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> The U.S. Geological Survey and partnering organizations are celebrating
> the 150th anniversary of the Powell Expedition, an exploration of the Green
> and Colorado Rivers that ended in the Grand Canyon. Led by scientist and
> Civil War amputee John Wesley Powell, a team of 10 men in four small wooden
> boats departed Green River Wyoming on May 24, 1869. Only six men and two
> boats completed the 95-day journey, but the expedition succeeded in
> recording some of the earliest known maps, data, topographic measurements,
> geology, and local Native American culture, for much of the treacherous
> Colorado River that runs through modern-day Grand Canyon National Park.
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> Powell later became the second director of the U.S. Geological Survey as
> well as the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first director of the
> Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, and a co-founder of the
> National Geographic Society.
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> The USGS continues to do important science along the river and to
> contribute information to decision-makers who are working to manage the
> river basin as a resource for water, recreation, and power in Western
> states. The focus of the education and outreach efforts surrounding the
> Powell150 Expedition is to inform and engage the public around the geology
> and ecology of rivers in general and this river system in particular and to
> raise public awareness of the natural resources of the Colorado River Basin.
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