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Slot canyon with water images1/2/2024 ![]() ![]() The questionably named “Lake Powell,” or “Lake Foul” to a host of environmentalists, is receding. Inundated for over half a century, the canyon is emerging from its watery grave. Powell added: “Much of the region is of naked, smooth, red rock, but the alcoves and glens that break the canyon walls are the sites of perennial springs, about which patches of luxuriant verdure gather.”Īs for the dam, Wallace Stegner lamented: “In creating the lovely and the usable, we have given up the incomparable.” From which of the features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon.” In 1869, explorer John Wesley Powell wrote: “We have a curious ensemble of wonderful features – carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds and monuments. But I also see the bright side of the dry side: Glen Canyon, flooded to create Lake Powell when the gates of Glen Canyon Dam closed in 1963, is re-appearing. Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir in the United States, can hold one and a half times the entire annual flow of the Colorado River, yet it’s at only 46 percent of capacity. “What happens under the turquoise skies of the continent’s most celebrated landscapes will presage changes that people the world over can expect to experience,” writes author and conservationist William deBuys. Climate change means longer, hotter summers. ![]()
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