Results for keyword: Glen Canyon Dam
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Viva la independent press!
High Country News is nominated for two Utne Independent Press awards; Laura Paskus wins award from Society of Professional Journalists; Nathan Rice to be HCN’s next editorial fellow; correction and clarification.
by Jodi Peterson , May 15, 2011 -
Hoover Dam: marvel and folly
Hoover Dam is an amazing piece of engineering, but it has outlived its usefulness.
by John Weisheit, Nov 03, 2010 -
Slobs at Lake Powell foment a revolt
Rather than rail against Lake Powell's mere existence, conservationists should try to restore and protect the landscape that is still there.
by Andrew Gulliford, Aug 19, 2010 -
Whoever thought the Lake Powell bathtub was a good idea?
What a disappointment it is to go from Utah's wild Dirty Devil River to the hideous man-made bathtub of Lake Powell.
by Alan Kesselheim, May 28, 2010 -
Death of an era
High Country News remembers Stewart Udall, the legendary Interior secretary.
by Ray Ring, Apr 06, 2010 -
Heard Around the West
The boatmen’s quarterly review revisits the wet spring of 1983 and the terrifying whitewater the rafters encountered deep in the Grand Canyon; “Smart fortwo” car coming to town; the wit & wisdom of Ted Turner.
by Betsy Marston, May 26, 2008 -
Two weeks in the West
Nasty chemicals in the Western air; drilling dust; EPA gets tougher on mercury; wildlife agency reconsiders habitat for Canada lynx and protection for sage grouse and white-tailed prairie dogs; and Grand Canyon gets a man-made flood.
by Sarah Gilman, Mar 17, 2008 -
Heard Around the West
Glen Canyon Dam’s image problem; riding the SLUT; coal-train pit crews; regulating a very peculiar hallucinogenic plant; poison ivy loves global warming; humongous fungus in Oregon.
by Betsy Marston, Oct 15, 2007 -
He loves nature. And dams.
Paul Ostapuk is a nature-lover and outdoorsman who loves Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam.
by Jim Rossi, Sep 17, 2007 -
A taste of ecological medicine
In Nature’s Restoration, naturalist Peter Friederici looks at the people and places involved in the restoration of natural landscapes
by Sarah Mazze, Jul 23, 2007






