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Show Colorado River runoff prospects fair The stormy March weather in the upper Colorado River Basin has somewhat improved estimates of runoff into the Basin's reservoirs, it was announced today by the Bureau of Reclaimation. The April through July runoff above Glen Canyon Dam is now expected to reach a total of 7.5 million acre-fee- t, which is about 90 of the long time average runoff. The predicted forecast is based on the seasonal accumulation of percipitation to April 1 at 58 stations and April snow data at 48 snow co.urses within the water shed area and presumes normal precipitation during late spring and early summer. Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam is expected to reach about elevation 3596 feet above mean sea level by mid summer, 15 feet higher than last summer and 27 feet above its present level. It will then contain 11. 8 of storage. million acre-fe- et The lake should remain near the level during the remainder of the summer and be lowered about 6 feet during the winter. About 930,000 acre, feet of runoff should origianate above Flaming Gorge Dam. Of this liizcDLitcD oCfl Recently the Canyonlands smallest runoff, only 53 amount, 170, 000 acre-fe- et Park Office had a reNational of normal. The 440, 000 will be stored in Fontenelle from Chevron USA, a quest acre-fe- et above inflow it will Reservior. The remainder western travel quarterly, for receive should bring the lake will flow into Flaming Gorge on information the pictographs Reservior, raising its level from level to elevation 6040 feet and petroglyphs of our parks. above m. s, 1. A near 5967 feet above m. s. 1. at this is the subCoincidently, 500 constant discharge-present to 5977 feet by the end cubic feet per second--froject of the Third Annual Reof July, This small rise and search Advisory Board Field Navajo Dam will keep the subsequent slow decent will in two weeks; and of a assure a stable lake for recreation lake near this elevation through Trip research study proposal by Dr. out the tourist recreation purposes this summer. Ray Matheny of Brigham Young The watershed above Blue Mesa season. University. Lake Mead on April 1 was Dam is the most favorable in The point is the interest in at 1151 elevation feet above the Basin. The lake should rock art of the Anasazi and the m. s. 1. or about 11 feet of receive 730,000 acre-fe- et never really dies Fremonts higher than a year ago. The inflow which about 93 of the downbut nobody knows much reservior is now 70 feet longtime average. If this And it. about everybody is below the top of the raised amont of water is realized the asking questions. spillway gates of Hoover lake should fill for the first But what we do know, or susDam. The lake will be held time to its maximum level level or will be allowed to pect, is that it is some of, if of elevation 7519 feet rise slowly during the summer. not the, finest in North America above m. s. 1. which is 10 The lake at present contains judged on both content and feet above the highest level color. Too many knowledgeet acre-feof reached last year. Morrow Point 16. 6 million able people have agreed on available storage or 61 Reservior, immediatly downthis, at least in passing- - among of it's capacity. stream from it's big brother, them Dr. J. O. Brew, former Blue Mesa, shall remain director of the Peabody Museum near full at 117,000 acre-fe- et at Harvard; Dr. Emil Haury, throughout the year. Chairman, Department of Give Today On the San Juan River, Navajo at the University Archeology The dollars you give to the Lake should receive the and Dr. Dean Brim-ha- ll, of Arizona; American Cancer Society durretired, of Fruita, Utah, ing the 1970 Crusade work who has made the art of the The San Juan Record three ways supporting re- Maze and Barrier t'tali Canyon his l..ticillo, search, education and service extensive 1970 study. G? Thursday, April 23, to the cancer patient. 'e Indian rock art is also the key todav. 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A bird hovers over the branches; a rabbit runs down the arm hand and tree. 64 bearing The two tiny forms? One has a sickle, cutting grain; the other holds a seed -- beater for winnowing. And the grains they harvested 100 years ago still grow beneath them on the banks of the 14 Orleans Broken Congress - to add these las. two areas of the Green and Colorado Rivers to Canyonlands National Park. But let's answer a few questions you might have by now -where are these works of art? and what are they? Art work is where you find it in the canyon country. Most of you already know of petroglyphs (designs or figures chipped into the desert varnish) and pictographs (paintings) somewhere in the area. Many are found in the fins above Mill Creek in Moab or along the Potash Road. A fine mural rests in full view above you as you drive south on Highway 160 between Courthouse Wash and the Colorado River into town. But the most notable sites are probably in Grand Gulch, west of Blanding- - paintings left by people of the Mesa Verde culture; the famous newspaper rock in the Indian Creek State Park; in the Needles of Canyonlands National Park - most particularly the polychrome "All American Man" in the Big Pocket; the immense (172 foot long, 8 foot high) mural of Barrier Canyon, and others here; and the Harvester Scene in the South Fork of Horse Canyon, or the Maze. And Moab's Mastodon Petroglyph. With the exception of some peckings by the Utes over the last hundred years or so, all were left by Pueblo III Indians about 990-11years ago. This means Anasazi from the Southeast, and Fremonts from the Northwest. They apparently merged here. Oddly, they don't seem to rave stayed around very long. Thirty five to fifty years at the most. There just isn't enough rubbish. Which only goes to heighten our curiosity as to how so much ine early art ended up here. 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