Blog: Yuma East Wetlands Saves Birds — and Water and Power
From the Central Arizona Project (CAP) Water Ways and Power Lines Blog:
“Hundreds of species of birds—willow flycatchers, yellow-billed cuckoos and yellow warblers—have a new riparian habitat. And, in the process, the west has maintained the flow of the Colorado River.
“The 350-acre Yuma East Wetlands project opened this summer, celebrating a milestone in the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program (MSCP). The MSCP is a critically important program for the Colorado River, which provides more than 1.5 million acre-feet of water to the Central Arizona Project (CAP) each year.
The project has been a textbook example of collaboration.”
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