Grand Canyon River Guides

BOATMANS QUARTERLY REVIEW BQR - The BQR is GCRGs keynote publication a distinct service to the river running community. This 48-page full-color journal is published quarterly, written produced by the organizations members as well as National Park Service representatives, members of the Grand Canyon scientific community, and others. The BQR includes educational, scientific, historical and training articles for the organizations general and guide members as well as articles on resource management challenges, indigenous perspectives new threats to Grand Canyon. This allows the organization to educate about important issues generate advocacy for wise-use stewardship of Grand Canyon the Colorado River. The BQR was published four times in FY 2023, with a circulation of approximately 1,700.

GLEN CANYON DAM ADAPTIVE MGMNT PROGRAMS/LONGTERM EXPERIMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN LTEMP EIS - The organization represents recreational river running interests on the Federal Advisory Committee FACA charged with advising the US Secretary of the Interior on how to best manage Glen Canyon Dam to comply with the mandates of the Grand Canyon Protection Act of 1992. In FY 2023, GCRG representatives participated in meetings, webinars, workshops conference calls of the Technical Work Group TWG, the Adaptive Management Work Group AMWG, and the Flow Ad Hoc Group of the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program GCDAMP. Throughout FY 2023, GCRG representatives communicated regularly with program stakeholders, federal agencies and scientists from the Grand Canyon Monitoring Research Center GCMRC. Additionally, GCRG representatives met regularly with other environmental, recreational and tribal stakeholders to strategize in advance of AMWG/TWG meetings and discern issues of common concern. continued at Schedule O

GUIDES TRAINING SEMINAR GTS - In Spring 2023, GCRG offered a two-day, land-based Guides Training Seminar GTS, with approximately 200 attendees. The GTS theme, Transitions A New Era for Grand Canyon, delved into both the challenges opportunities that this period of change may elicit, by elevating honoring indigenous perspectives, presenting current interpretive science, hearing directly from experts about the Colorado River crisis about its potential ramifications for Grand Canyon, and sharing important messages from the Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park. Recordings of the GTS presentations were subsequently posted on the GTS Library page of the GCRG website. This outstanding educational event was followed by a two-week long, river-based training session on the Colorado River through Grand Canyon for 22 guide participants, with 9 speakers from the National Park Service, affiliated tribes, and the science community. continued at Schedule O