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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area provides a dramatic example of one of nature's most inspiring settings combined with a hugely Promethean human project. Impounded behind the Glen Canyon Dam, waters of the Colorado River and tributaries are backed up almost 200 miles to form Lake Powell, the recreational focus of the park. But don't overlook the more than million acres of desert-and-canyon country that surrounds the lake. While the lake may be humming with motorboats and personal watercraft, the backcountry is mostly deserted and quiet.

Glen Canyon is one of the most controversial engineering projects in history, and the controversy still rages. Glen Canyon Dam was completed in 1963, inundating-by all accounts-some of the most beautiful canyon country in the southwest. A movement is afoot to dismantle the dam. And of course, there's a counter-movement to keep it.

When it comes to preserving and protecting a beloved landscape, people can be mighty stubborn.


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