Acronyms & terminology used in this project include:
FOVRG = Friends of Verde River Greenway
DHRSP = Dead Horse Ranch State Park
VRG = Verde River Greenway
AZSP = Arizona State Parks
RAP = River Access Point
CFS = Cubic foot per second
USGS = United States Geological Survey
NWS = National Weather Service
NRCS = Natural Resource Conservation Service
SNOTEL = An NRCS snowpack monitoring site
River Left = Facing downstream, river left is the shoreline on one's left hand side.
River Right = Facing downstream, river right is the shoreline on one's right hand side.
Strainer = a tree, trees, and/or brush clogging a river channel. Strainers present significant hazards to navigation and can cause grave injury or death to paddlers and their property.
