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Bob Sihler - May 27, 2011 3:57 pm - Voted 10/10
Not without cost...I'm glad this place wasn't drowned, but if I recall correctly, Glen Canyon was part of the price. Few know or remember how many arches, slots, etc. were drowned, but I understand that it rivaled the best of Utah.
Arthur Digbee - May 27, 2011 4:07 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Not without cost...More or less yes. It wasn't an explicit deal but a choice of strategy -- "we can defend the principle of no dams in a national park unit, but we can't fight a dam outside a national park."
Scenery aside, if they'd known the effects of the Glen Canyon Damn in terms of the Grand Canyon's hydrology, they probably could have made the case.
It's easy to second-guess the 1950s. And David Brower second-guessed himself the rest of his life.
But he gets credit for stopping *two* dams in Dinosaur; Split Mountain was the other.
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