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"Dancing with Deadpool" on the Colorado River

Plus: Wolves run wild -- at least until they get caught

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Dec 16, 2025
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Water shooting out of Glen Canyon Dam’s river outlets — as opposed to the penstocks and hydroelectric turbines — in autumn 2025. The releases were part of the Cool Flow project that is intended to lower the temperature of the river downstream of the dam to protect native fish by disrupting non-native smallmouth bass spawning. Th…
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