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Channelization Project to Help Protect Native Fish in Grand Canyon Completed

June 5, 2025 · Source: National Park Service

two aerial photos of a sandstone canyon, the river at the bottom curves. A gravel bar on the first photo is connscted to the saide of the canyon, on the second photo it is not
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The Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service have completed modifications to the -12 mile slough in the Colorado River near Glen Canyon Dam removing a key spawning site for invasive smallmouth bass—a growing threat to native fish.

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