Images

Day 2 tent at dawn

Day 2 frost on rafts at dawn

Day 2 landscape with fog at dawn

Day 5 SCREE Bailey Edward taking wet photo

Day 5 put in of raft below Flaming Gorge Dam

View looking downstream at the red sandstone walls of Swallow Canyon. This small canyon is one of two canyons that divide Browns Park into series of intermittent alluvial-meandering and bedrock canyon segments. Unlike Red Canyon and Lodore Canyon, the slope of Swallow Canyon is not controlled by debris flows, and thus does not have any rapids.

View looking upstream from a raft on the Green River at the downstream end of Swinging Bridge Canyon, near Flynn Bottom. The eastern end of the Unita Mountains lie in the background. A pump station supplying water to the flooded wetlands of Brown's Park National Wildlife Refuge can be seen on the right near the edge of water.

View looking at a shallow side channel of the Green River in Brown's Park, Colorado. The picture is taken looking downstream from the left bank of the river. In the foreground and on the opposite bank are stands of sandbar willow (Salix exigua). Further beyond, are stands of Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii).

A great examples of the crossbeds in the Uinta Formation, a quarzite dating back to the PreCambrian, on a beautiful sunny morning with mist hanging above the river as the sun rises.

A close-up of a bald eagle hanging out on a cliff along the Green River in swallow canyon

Two of the SCREE rafts heading downstream through Swallow Canyon

A group of cliff swallow nests made from mud in the river in Swallow Canyon. Many of the nests have birds in them and can be identified by their yellow beaks sticking out.

SCREE raft preparing to navigate under Taylor Flats Bridge which poses a potential hazard depending on water flow levels from Flaming Gorge Dam

Open grassy landscape and distant mountains of Browns Park Waterfowl Management Area as seen from the Green River

UV light trap set up at dusk along the river's edge to collect and inventory riparian insect populations

Brillant sunset at Little Swallow Campsite on the Green River

View downstream of SCREE raft entering Swallow Canyon

The photo shows the SCREE Powell 150 expdition camp at Big Pine Campground in Red Canyon of the Green River, Utah. The large green tarp was set up to keep the kitchen area and campers dry. Two very large ponderosa pines are in the center of camp, and surely were witness to the 1869 Powell expedition.

A flock of pelicans in the water in Brown's Park.

Desert paintbrush stands out against the yellows and browns of the desert by way of its bright red and fiery coloring. Desert paintbrush is a hemiparasite, and takes some of its water and nutrients from the roots of nearby plants. However, unlike full parasites, desert paintbrush can still photosynthesize to obtain some of its nutrients if needed.

This photo demonstrates one of the challenges of down-river boating in the Colorado River system.