This page features aerial video footage and still images of the Green River heading upstream from its confluence with the White River in northeast Utah to its confluence with the Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument in northwest Colorado.
The Green is the largest tributary of the Colorado River and begins in Wyoming’s Wind River Range.
Learn more about the Green River in Heather Hansman’s book Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West.
This footage was captured during a LightHawk flight using a mounted GoPro camera. The still images are exported frames from the video.
| Date | May 6, 2021 |
| Location | Green River, Utah and Colorado (map) |
| Pilot | David Cole |
| Editor | Mitch Tobin |
| Organizations | LightHawk and The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder |
| Rights | Free to reuse under Creative Commons license, with credit to lighthawk.org / waterdesk.org |
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