Experts: Colorado River Protection Disjointed, Underplayed

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<p>The Colorado River with Grand Mesa in the background from Riverbend Park, Palisade, Colo.</p>
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The Colorado River with Grand Mesa in the background from Riverbend Park, Palisade, Colo.

A new critique from the Colorado River Research Group says four multimillion-dollar conservation programs do valuable work but would have more impact if they treated the entire river as a single, integrated system instead of operating separately.