As US water wars rage, a tributary of the Colorado River faces unprecedented pressure. Visitors worry how long this aquatic \u2018relict\u2019 will last<\/p>\n
On an early morning in mid-May, a group of near strangers shoved camping gear and clothes into waterproof bags, slathered on sunscreen, and ambled into the bright-yellow rafts that would carry them down one of the last free-flowing rivers in the American west.<\/p>\n
Unhindered by large dams or diversions, the Yampa curves across 250 miles (400km) of alpine tundras, cottonwood forests and ancient red-rock canyons, rising from Colorado\u2019s Rocky mountains to where it joins with the Green River in Utah, much in the way it has for millions of years.<\/p>\n
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