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: > > 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 > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > > Posted by ... > > > > Angie Cope > AGS Library, UW Milwaukee Libraries > 2311 E. Hartford Avenue > Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 > > <http://www.uwm.edu/libraries>http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/ > M-F 8:00am-4:30pm [log in to unmask] (414)229-6282 > 43°03'8"N 87°57'21"W > [image: 1505846149570_image001.png] > >