Verde River Institute
Media Stories
- The Center of It All Sedona Magazine's Summer, 2012 article on Richard Lynch's Paddle Tours on the Verde, by Tom Johnson
- Northpoint Expeditionary Learning Academy in Prescott studies the Verde River Prescott Courier, Joanna Dodder Nellans, 5/5/2011
- Camp Verde Bugle Editorial on the Northern Arizona Regional Groundwater Flow Model 7/23/11 Link to the model above
- Camp Verde Bugle story on the Wine Industry in the Verde Valley 7/23/11, Steve Ayers
- Prescott Courier Article on the proposed Big Chino Hydroelectric Project 1/30/2012, Joanna Dodder-Nellans
- Editorial: Dear leaders - let the pipe dream go Prescott Courier, 9/20/2012
- Water Report is a Call to Action Prescott Daily Courier editorial (6-10-13) in response the recent Sierra Club report on the Verde.
- Cottonwood Council Hears USGS Report Verde Independent, 6/21/13.
- Prescott Daily Courier Article "McCain, Flake urge communities to create water plan together" Joanna Dodder Nellans, 7/19/2013. Includes commentary on the Middle Verde WAC meeting of 7/17/13.
- Water Woes Spur Clashes Payson Roundup, 7/23/13. Story focuses on the Verde Watershed, Payson's solutions to water sustainability and agricultural interests' comments.
- Save the Verde River Pam Hait, Arizona Republic, August 31, 2013. Excellent article by Pam Hait, who accompanied Lattie and Elva Coor on a float trip given by the Town of Clarkdale in the "Verde River @ Clarkdale" in June, 2013.
- Seeing the Forest for the Water: Irrigators Willing to Pay Double to Guard Against Wildfires Julie Mueller, Northern Arizona University, National Geographic, 8/29/13. Interesting study showing that river water diverters and irrigators are willing to pay much more for their water, if it means applying the increase to preservation of forests, and thereby ensuring their supplies.
- Local writer Roger Naylor's excellent story in the Arizona Republic describing his adventure kayaking on the Verde River @ Clarkdale! August 23, 2014
- Critical Habitat expanded in the Verde for Southwestern Willow Flycatchers Verde Independent, 1/13/13, Steve Ayers.
- Prolonged drought brings changes to the Verde River Steve Ayers, Verde Independent, July 3, 2012
- Environmental Defense Fund's "River of the Month" on the Verde River Jocelyn Gibbon, EDF, September, 2012
- Diamond-S Ditch signs first ever flow agreement to reduce diversions from the Verde River
- Dan Campbell: Three Decades Keeping the Ark Afloat Steve Ayers, Verde Independent, 1/16/13.
- Prescott, SRP move forward with enhanced Big Chino monitoring Cindy Barks, Prescott Courier, 8/29/13.
- Arizona Irrigators Share Water with Desert River National Geographic on-line story about how The Nature Conservancy's Kim Schonek is helping ditch operators in the Verde Valley improve operational efficiencies that allow them to leave more water in the Verde River mainstem.
- Moonshine at Peck's Lake - article by Bennie Blake in The Tab newspaper of Sedona, June, 1989, covering John McMillan's reminiscences of the old still in Brewer's Tunnel, between the Verde River and Peck's Lake, Clarkdale, AZ.
- Flowtography is a new photographic method develoiped by SRP to monitor streams without expensive gauges and uplinks. Verde Independent, 2/8/15.
- The Pioneer Ditch settlement_ A history of fiercely-contested property rights Camp Verde Bugle, 3/20/15. Ditch rights disputes can be settled to everyone's benefit!
- Water trauma: Apprehensive farmers could face radical shortages Rachel Leingang, Arizona Capitol Times, 3/23/15. How farmers will adjust to the looming CAP shortages. Also, some interesting figures on the cost to make big Ag more efficient.
- Arizona's Colorado River allocation will decrease and affect mostly farms. Capitol Times, 6/8/15.
- Arizona Republic calls for Willcox AMA, Arizona Republic, 6/10/15. The Arizona Republic Editorial Board warns that "If ever there was an argument on behalf of a regulated water market in Arizona, it is in southeastern Arizona, where drought has dried up wells and fueled inevitable conflicts among nearly everyone over access to the scarce groundwater that remains."