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In this classic narrative history of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 1960s, Russell Martin has captured the individual, cultural, political, and environmental dramas that brought into being the environmental movement we know today. Winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Martins book is available again in a new edition with a revised foreword. Across the West, calls for the removal of hydroelectric dams constructed during the Bureau of Reclamations grand century of dam-building are being heard. More than thirty years later Glen Canyon Dam is still at the vortex of controversy, both because of its impact on ecological processes downstream and its drowning of natural landscapes behind its headwall. A STORY THAT STANDS LIKE A DAM is as compelling and relevant today as it was when it was first published.
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A Story That Stands Like a Dam : Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West
author
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Martin, Russell.
publisher
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University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin
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087480597X
print isbn13
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9780874805970
ebook isbn13
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9780585182995
language
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English
subject
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)--History.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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TC557.A62G65 1999eb
ddc
:
627.8
subject
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Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)--History.
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A Story That Stands Like a Dam
Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West
Russell Martin
The University of Utah Press Salt Lake City
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First published in 1989
University of Utah Press edition copyright 1999 by Russell Martin
All rights reserved
Printed on acid-free paper
ISBN 0-87480-597-X
Original edition cataloged as follows:
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Russell Martin A story that stands like a dam : Glen Canyon and the struggle for the soul of the West / Russell Martin p. cm. Bibliography : p. Includes index. 1. Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)History. I. Title.
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FOR GEORGIA
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Contents
Foreword
vii
Prologue
1
1. Shutting the River Off
7
2. Waters That Ran to Waste
20
3. The Battle for Echo Park
43
4. Into the Hole
75
5. The Salvage Seasons
103
6. The Last Frontier
132
7. The Way Things Were When the World Was Young
158
8. Ten Million Tons of Mud
185
9. The Fate of Rainbow Bridge
215
10. Flooding the Sistine Chapel
247
11. A Century after the Emma Dean
280
12. A Rock-Encircled Sea
298
Epilogue
320
Maps
333
Acknowledgments
335
Bibliography
337
Index
341
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Foreword
Much has happened and little has changed in the Glen Canyon region during the decade since this book's initial publication.
The eight enormous hydropower generators that sit at the base of 587-foot high Glen Canyon Dam have been throttled back a bit in the interim, a means of limiting the wild and ecologically deleterious daily fluctuations in the river level below the dam. The dam's penstocks and outlet tubes have been employed in the spring of 1996 to create a week-long experimental flood in the downstream canyonsa what-in-the-hell sort of circumstance that the dam's builders and early boosters never could have imaginedintended to rebuild sandbars and beaches that had been steadily eroded for more than thirty years, since the dam began to trap the 66 million tons of silt the Colorado and San Juan rivers annually attempt to carry out to sea. Lake Powell, the impossibly blue reservoir that backs up for 186 miles beyond the dam and that now is the repository of that silt, has joined the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley,
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and Mesa Verde on the must-see lists of virtually every European and Asian tourist who visits the desert Southwest, and roughly 3.5 million people now play on the lake each year. Despite their numbers, despite the hydropower that keeps food frozen in the refrigerators of another three million citizens or so, an ardent association of environmentalists lately have hatched a plan to turn off the turbines and drain Lake Powell, to turn Glen Canyon back into a canyon, one with a red river coursing through it. And, as you might suspect, an indignant Utah congressman already has held hearings to denounce the notion as utterly idiotic.
At the close of the twentieth century, Glen Canyon Dam, its reservoir, and the monumental transformation they have brought to the high heart of the Colorado Plateau remain as steeped in controversy as they have at any time during the preceding fifty years. The dam itself is still revered and reviled in almost equal measure; the lake is either awe-inspiring or gut-wrenchingly awful, depending on who you are and the perspective from which you view it. Water storage and the production of hydroelectric power on Glen Canyon's gargantuan scale are essential components of the ongoing effort to live successfully in a difficult environmentso say about half the people you hear. The other half are certain deep in their bones they represent nothing more than our collective hubris, that they are remnants of a time when we wrongly believed we could accomplish anything, no matter its lamentable price. The battle between these two utterly opposite perspectives first was pitched during a far more innocent eraway back when Ike still occupied the White Houseand perhaps it shouldn't be surprising therefore that it still rages in this edgy millennial moment when we Americans seem to be tangling over even the simplest of issues.
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