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Top Stories
March 20th, 2008
GCI Blasts BLM Oil Shale & Tar Sands Plan!
On March 20, the public comment period ended on the Bureau of Land
Management's (BLM) Oil Shale and Tar Sands Draft Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). Thank you to everyone
who submitted comments opposing this destructive plan! Glen Canyon
Institute (GCI) joined 25 other organizations from Utah and across the
country in filing comments that strongly opposed the
BLM Plan because it would devastate the environment, harm local
communities, and violate the law.
The final plan is expected to be issued later in 2008. We will keep
you informed of future developments on this important issue!
Glen Canyon In The News!
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March 24th, 2008
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Plan to 'flush' Grand Canyon stirs concerns
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The Grand Canyon is about to take a bath, and National Park Service officials who oversee the
natural wonder are worried.
Federal flood control managers, led by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, this week plan to
unleash millions of cubic feet of water from behind Glen Canyon Dam to "flush" the huge canyon
bottom with a simulated springtime flood.
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February 27th, 2008
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Lake Mead Dry
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There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the
southwestern United States, will be dry by 2021 if climate changes as expected and future water usage
is not curtailed, according to a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San
Diego.
Without Lake Mead and neighboring Lake Powell, the Colorado River system has no buffer to sustain
the population of the Southwest through an unusually dry year, or worse, a sustained drought. In such
an event, water deliveries would become highly unstable and variable, said research marine physicist
Tim Barnett and climate scientist David Pierce.
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February 20th, 2008
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Potential Water Crisis Looming
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It's the most worrisome forecast yet for the water supply of the desert Southwest. Scientists at
a prestigious institution say a crisis is coming unless there are major policy changes.
There have been gloomy forecasts before, but this is the bleakest yet if you love Lake Powell or
if you care about water for big cities to our south and west.
Government experts are skeptical about the specifics of the forecast, but they agree there's
plenty to worry about.
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Action Alerts
February 1, 2008
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued its Monticello Draft Resource
Management Plan (DRMP) in November 2007. The planning area covers 1.8
million acres of lands administered by the Monticello Field Office in
southeastern Utah.
This plan will have a major impact, not only on a
vast expanse of BLM lands, but also on the adjacent Glen Canyon
National Recreation Area (NRA), Canyonlands National Park, Natural
Bridges National Monument, and Hovenweep National Monument, as
well as the Colorado River watershed.
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November 27, 2007
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area proposes destructive excavation
to deepen Castle Rock Cut boat channel
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area has proposed a destructive excavation to deepen Castle Rock Cut boat channel. With your help, we can stop this project. Send your comments to the National Park Service by December 4th!
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Learn about Glen Canyon before Lake Powell.
Visit this inspiring
website to see spectacular photos of Glen Canyon in the
early 1960s before it was flooded. Taken by renowned
photographer Phil Pennington, these pictures show lost natural
wonders that will be revealed as the reservoir depth
continues to decline.
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Cathedral in the Desert, 2005
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