{"id":1774,"date":"2005-09-18T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2005-09-18T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T14:47:12","slug":"water_wars_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"Water Wars: The State of the San Joaquin River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/002931.php\">water wars<\/a> arrive in Wisconsin, it&#8217;s useful to take a look at what has happened in other parts of the United States.  <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/P\/PORTRAIT_OF_A_RIVER?SITE=INLAF&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Juliana Barbassa<\/a> does just that in California&#8217;s Ansel Adams Wilderness Area:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It begins as fresh snowmelt, streaming from Mount Ritter&#8217;s gray granite faces into Thousand Island Lake, a bouldered mirror. The clear blue water spills out through a narrow canyon, and the San Joaquin River is born.<\/p>\n<p>When conservationist and mountaineer John Muir first explored these upper reaches, the narrow gorge barely contained the power of the living river, which carried the continent&#8217;s southernmost salmon run, sustained Indian tribes and set the rhythm of life in the valley below with floods and droughts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Certainly this Joaquin Canyon is the most remarkable in many ways of all I have entered,&#8221; Muir wrote in 1873.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the water wars arrive in Wisconsin, it&#8217;s useful to take a look at what has happened in other parts of the United States. Juliana Barbassa does just that in California&#8217;s Ansel Adams Wilderness Area: It begins as fresh snowmelt, streaming from Mount Ritter&#8217;s gray granite faces into Thousand Island Lake, a bouldered mirror. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}