Drought In West Grounds Boaters
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Sarah and Tom Huston worry their days of leisurely casting fishing lines off a shaded dock in Roosevelt Lake are numbered. The Arizona lake, about 110 miles northeast of Phoenix, is now just 30 percent full, local rangers say.
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State water and wildlife managers are taking advantage of an unprecedented drought by removing life-choking muck along Lake Okeechobee's shoreline.
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By Roger Mallon, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Jun. 3--AMITY HALL -- Western style drift boats are gaining popularity on Pennsylvania rivers. These rugged, high-bow boats are built to handle more fury than Pennsylvania rivers generally offer.
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By Tom Koenninger, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 7--ABOARD ESSAYONS -- A winter mix of rain and snow slashed across the deck of this ponderous ship as she moved downstream on the Columbia River, barely a whisper faster than the current.
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By Stowe, Gene  Winter weather has delayed the boating season by about three weeks, says Don Daly, who owns Eagle Lake Marine in Edwardsburg with his wife Charmayne.
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ATLANTA - After one of the driest springs in recent history, and looking  ahead to a parched weather forecast, Georgia farmers, environmental  officials and local authorities face some tough decisions about using water.
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Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply them
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Heavy rain gave way to balmy record temperatures in western Washington on Wednesday as flood waters began receding.
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By Eric Weslander, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  May 29--High water levels cut down on boating this Memorial Day weekend at area lakes, but that doesn't mean the parks were empty.  "It's been pretty typical," Jonathan Carlisle, a park ranger for the U.S.
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FERNLEY, Nev., Jan. 5 -- A ruptured levee sent a frigid "wall of water" from a rain-swollen canal into this high desert town Saturday, flooding hundreds of homes and forcing the rescue of dozens of people by helicopter and boat.
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Human activity such as driving and powering air conditioners is responsible for up to 60 percent of changes contributing to dwindling water supplies in the arid and growing West, a new study finds.
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By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Mar. 1--Fly fishers shouldn't be discouraged by the weather greeting today's opening of several quality trout fishing lakes in Eastern Washington. Be patient.
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Salvage teams fear for three stranded ships, with warnings of more bad weather across the country
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By Angie Herrington, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 9--From nurseries and golf courses to carpet mills and farmers, the list of those affected by the severe drought gripping the tri-state region is growing longer.
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The low snowpack in the Cascade Range is raising the specter of water shortages this summer, but a new study of tree-ring data indicates the Northwest has endured far worse droughts over the past 250 years &#151; and is likely to again.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  May 31--If you're heading to Horsethief, leave your big boat behind.   The Idaho Department of Fish and Game drained the reservoir last fall to remove illegally stocked yellow perch, and it hasn't refilled enough to make the boat ramps useable.
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A pair of fronts sweeping through the eastern half of the country was expected to bring widespread rain on Saturday. The West was forecast to be mainly dry.