How Growing Barley for Beer Could Help Save the Verde River
Chip Norton prefers being on the water to anything else. Moving his boat through the rapids and observing nature helps to clear his head. That’s why he was devastated to think the Verde River could stop flowing during Arizona’s summers, due to increasing water demand, drought and climate changes.
“The river is my happy place,” says Chip, a river recreationist turned conservationist. “I’ve rafted in Alaska and fly-fished in Idaho. Nothing compares to the Verde when it comes to diversity.”
