Jonathan Thompson - The day the river was orange (Part one)

Journalist and author Jonathan Thompson is a native of the San Juan Mountains in Southwest Colorado. He has spent his career writing about the land, culture and communities of the American West.
Thompson served as editor in chief of High Country News from 2007 to 2010, and is still a contributing editor at the publication. Thompson recently published a book called River of Lost Souls: The science, politics and greed behind the Gold King Mine disaster.
The book has been described as part elegy, part ode and part investigative science journalism that chronicles the iconic spill in 2015 that turned the Animas River in southwest Colorado orange and galvanized public awareness of legacy mines scattered throughout the west.