Grand Valley Vista
by Janice Pariza
Title
Grand Valley Vista
Artist
Janice Pariza
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Grand Valley in Colorado as viewed at Sunset from Delta, Colorado.
Life flows into the Grand Valley through canals from the Colorado River. Appreciated by the Ute people for centuries, later the valley developed a reputation for tasteful fruit. Peaches lead the way to notoriety, and now the vineyards also bring many visitors to the valley that snuggles between Mount Garfield - The Book Cliffs and the Lands End of Grand Mesa.
Home to over 130,000 people, the economy has diversified since the shock of Black Sunday in 1982. Now valued for recreation, relocation and retirement, the valley watches with regret and excitement as the rural farming nature slowly moves to a twenty first century environment. The valley will need in the next years to embrace both the pastoral past and the high tech future and continue to be a very special place to live.
The valley begins where the Colorado River widens at the mouth of De Beque Canyon to the east of Palisade, then follows a wide arc bending to the west/southwest. The Colorado receives the Gunnison River, one of its major tributaries, just south of Grand Junction near the midpoint of the valley. The valley is surrounded by large plateau formations, including the Bookcliffs along the north side, the Grand Mesa along the southeast side, and the Uncompahgre Plateau to the southwest. Colorado National Monument sits on a ridge on the southwest side of the valley west of Grand Junction. Much of the surrounding table land areas rimming the valley are public lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Management.
The valley was an area historically occupied by the Ute people. White settlers began to arrive in the 1880s, farming the valley for a variety of grains and fruits. In the 1890s, it was discovered that sugar beets grown in the valley had a high sugar content, leading to widespread cultivation of that crop. At the turn of the 20th century, evaporation techniques allowed fruit growers to ship their products more efficiently to distant markets, yielding an expansion of fruit growing in the valley. In 1918, the Highline Project was completed to provide water to cultivate 50,000 acres (20.0 km�) in the valley. The project included a roller dam in De Beque Canyon, the largest of three such dams of this type in the nation.
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July 25th, 2015
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