Glen Canyon is revealing itself. David Brower, the first executive director of the Sierra Club and a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, once said flooding Glen Canyon would be “America’s most ...
As Lake Powell's water levels have dropped over decades of drought, the Glen Canyon is filling with verdant vegetation. Many areas of the canyon that have been submerged by the reservoir for decades ...
While searching for new hikes to try in San Francisco, Bay Curious listener Ryan Flynn stumbled across a pin on Google Maps for ‘The First Dynamite Factory in America.’ The pin marked a spot in Glen ...
Eric Balken calls Glen Canyon America’s lost national park. “There’s nowhere else like this,” he says, while taking us to see one of the area’s premiere attractions. “Cathedral in the Desert was one ...
Newly discovered damage to part of the dam holding back America's second-largest reservoir has the 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River worried about their ability to get the water they ...
Glen Canyon is revealing itself. David Brower, the first executive director of the Sierra Club and a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, once said flooding Glen Canyon would be “America’s most ...
I know many of the people involved in the controversy regarding the future of Lake Powell and Glen Canyon. As Western states haggle over reducing water use because of declining flows in the Colorado ...
Cathedral in the Desert • David Brower sat back in his chair during the first board meetings of the Glen Canyon Institute in 1996 — white-haired, distinguished and almost entirely silent. Three ...
After a modest rise in June, the water level in Lake Powell is on its way back down. The Bureau of Reclamation forecasts indicate it’s possible that Lake Powell could drop 37 feet by April to under ...
After years of drought and rising water demand in the American Southwest, Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir, remains more than 100 feet below its full level, and experts say a full ...
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On a turquoise lake in a sandstone desert, Ross Dombrowski is trying to figure out what to do about the rock growing behind his houseboat. The rock, spectacular and rust red, like most in southern ...