Glen Canyon NRA: Getting Rid of the Damned Dam?

Lake Powell empty at Hite Overlook
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Utah. May 14, 2016.
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National Parks & Monuments In Distress: Glen Canyon

National Parks and Monuments in Distress

https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/home

Nevada legislature takes serious look at tearing down Lake Powell’s Glen Canyon Dam (June 3. 2017)

"In no uncertain terms, the Glen Canyon Dam is one of the most environmentally destructive projects in our nation's history," said Eric Belken, executive director of the Institute. 

Belken cited harms to native species, destruction of a unique natural and cultural landscape, and the disruption of the natural cycle of erosion and replenishment of soil downstream in the Grand Canyon.

http://fox13now.com/2017/06/02/nevada-legislature-takes-serious-look-at-tearing-down-glen-canyon-dam


For more information on Glen Canyon National Recreation Area:
https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/nps/glen-canyon-national-recreation-area

National Parks and Monuments in Distress

https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/home

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area: Rincon from Space

The astronaut photographs ISS047-E-106206 — ISS047-E-106225 in this mosaic were acquired on May 7, 2016, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 800 millimeter lens, and are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The images were taken by a member of the Expedition 47 crew. The images have been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Adam Voiland.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=88922

NASA Earth Observatory: A Curious Ensemble of Wonderful Features (October 16, 2016):
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=88922

When John Wesley Powell explored the Colorado River in 1869, he made the first thorough survey of one of the last blank spots on the map. The expedition began in May at Green River, Wyoming, and ended three months later at the confluence of the Colorado and Virgin Rivers in present-day Nevada.

About two months into their journey, the nine men of the expedition found themselves in Glen Canyon. As the men traveled along the serpentine river channel, they encountered what Powell later described in Canyons of Colorado as a “curious ensemble of wonderful features.”

While the walls were not nearly as high in Glen Canyon as they were downstream in Marble Canyon or Grand Canyon, the explorers encountered a labyrinth of overhanging cliffs, hanging gardens, sweeping river bends, and natural arches set amidst a backdrop of colorful buttes and mesas.

“Past these towering monuments, past these mounded billows of orange sandstone, past these oak-set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, past these mural curves, we glide hour after hour, stopping now and then, as our attention is arrested by some new wonder,” wrote Powell.

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• References and Further Reading

• ArcGIS (2015, September 2) Glen Canyon Historic Photos. Accessed October 14, 2016.
• Glen Canyon Institute Glen Canyon Photos. Accessed October 14, 2016.
• NASA Earth Observatory (2013, April 20) Exploring the Grand Canyon.
• NASA Earth Observatory Water Level in Lake Powell.
• National Park Service Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Accessed October 14, 2016.
• National Park Service The Powell Expedition. Accessed October 14, 2016.
• PBS Lost in the Grand Canyon. Accessed October 14, 2016.
• Powell, J. (1895) Canyons of Colorado. Accessed October 14, 2016.
• U.S. Geological Survey (1969) The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell. Accessed October 14, 2016.

download large (full resolution) mosaic image (63 MB, JPEG, 11280x20492)

Links

Rubble

Hite Overlook Panorama (July 22, 2016)

https://rubble.blogspot.com/2016/07/glen-canyon-hite-overlook-panorama.html

www.aflitt.com

http://www.aflitt.com/GlenCanyonNRA

NPS - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

https://www.nps.gov/glca/index.htm

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_National_Recreation_Area

Glen Canyon: Hite Overlook Panorama

Hite Overlook Panorama
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.  Utah.  May 14, 2016.  
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: July 22, 2016

I'll write more, and post more photos, about Glen Canyon, Hite, Bullfrog, and the Colorado River later.  There's a lot of topics to explore here...  However, today is not a day for long and detailed posts.  It's time to get back to video editing...  

But know, there is supposed to be a lake where the river is.  Note the large, high and dry, boat launch at Hite...  It almost looks like an air strip sitting up under the cliff towards the right side of the photo!  Reservoir levels have been up and down, year to year, for a very long time...  mostly down, and down by a lot.  There is a whole lot to to explore regarding this topic, and I'll be posting on it extensively soon enough.

It's been a fun few days getting into all of these posts and working through these photos. The first half of this year was much more focused on shooting, both stills and video, and very little editing happened in both departments.  While I hope not to be chained to my desk full-time for the rest of 2016, the second half of this year will probably be more tilted towards the editing (and writing) than shooting.

I have YEARS worth of stills to work through, a ton of video editing from the first half of the year piling up, and the whole Recreating the Historic Columbia River Highway documentary project to re-boot...  Many projects have been delayed the last six months due to family issues and health issues, and it is time to start getting caught up.

As for the Photo of the Day, for the rest of 2016, I'll probably focus mostly on the National Park Service shots, mixing it up here and there with some Columbia River Highway material and the occasional concert shot.  This is primarily to help commemorate this year's centennials of both the National Park Service and the Columbia River Highway, but it also helps me focus and sort through the thousands and thousands of photos sitting idle on my hard drives, collecting so many layers of digital dust.

From time to time, probably as a break between big video editing projects, I will take a day or two to do what I did this week, spend the whole day working on multiple Photo of the "Day" posts in an attempt to slowly get caught up, and I hope to keep posting at least once a day, most days of the week.

There are some great shots waiting to get out into the world, and many interesting posts to write.  While I feel a lot of the photos that went out this week are very nice, they are nothing compared to what will be coming out over the next few months (I hope!).  This week was dedicated more towards filling in gaps with some parks, monuments, historic sites, etc. that were not on the website yet.  Moving ahead, the focus will shift more towards finding the best photos hiding out on my hard drives and sharing them with everyone who cares to look at them.

That is all for now.  There are chores to be done, DVDs to burn, and concert videos to be edited... 

Links

NPS - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

https://www.nps.gov/glca/index.htm

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_National_Recreation_Area

NPS - 2016 Centennial

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/centennial/index.htm