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High flow: Glen Canyon Dam water release to move sediment downstream
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How about we be truthful for awhile and start calling these ecosystems for what they are, very, very hearty; very very tough, very very resilient.
It is laughable to suggest that all ecosystems are not delicate. Humans have caused faster and more widespread extinctions than any non-catastropic meteor event in the earth's history. Dumping a little water out of a damn to try to mitigate our harm is the very least we can do to maintain a balance between human development and comfort on the one hand, and healthy and robust natural habitat on the other.
Utah is just too bull-headed in thinking the recreational use of Powell somehow negates the cons of having this dam.
Its going to be one of those things that we will regret when it happens but do nothing till it does.
Our tiny tantrums insisting that nature do what we want it to and the earth conform to our plans always remind me of how small we are when compared to the forces of nature.
We live in a desert. Dams like Glen canyon have made this possible. We drink water and irrigate our crops instead of dumping it all into the Pacific Ocean. Progress is good. Look at the way people lived here 500 years ago before there were any dams.
I say make Lake Powell bigger. And stop releasing 'wasting' water to move the mud around a little bit in the river bottom below.
You gotta love it when the burocrats urged by environmentalists try to simulate nature and play God.
Our tiny tantrums insisting that nature do what we want it to and the earth conform to our plans always remind me of how small we are when compared to the forces of nature.
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Makes one wonder whose pockets are being lined over this one. Do you suppose some of the decision makers work in the Utah legislature also?