Speaking of available space, our Glen Canyon Adventure Tours (GCAT) trips are beginning to fill up. We have only a few slots left for the April 2-5 trip into the Lower Escalante. See our website for more information and call us right away to reserve your spot. We will be announcing new trip dates and destinations for summer and fall soon. This is the year to get down into the canyons and see the beautiful terrain that has emerged from the depths of Glen Canyon Reservoir. As of this week, RESERVOIR LEVELS ARE 42% OF FULL!

Beginning this month, GCI is accepting applications for the Outreach and Development Director position at our office in Salt Lake City. Megan Anderson, who has served in this capacity since the office was moved from Flagstaff, has decided to move to Idaho to guide rafting trips this summer. We are very grateful for her efforts in the movement and we are sorry to see her leave. For more information about the job posting, please go to http://www.glencanyon.org/employment.htm.

Also new this month, GCI has issued a very unique ACTION ALERT (Don't worry, this one doesn't entail the standard appeal to call your congressman). With the low water levels and the widespread restoration occurring in the various canyons, we want to document it and we need your help! We need all possible documentation of the current restoration of Glen Canyon. If you have taken, or are taking any backpacking, hiking, or river trips into the canyons, please take photos and video. We are even sponsoring a contest for the best submissions. See the alert attached below for more information.

For those of you interested in learning more about the Glen Canyon issue and western water issues in general, the Red Rock Institute at the American West Center (on the University of Utah campus), is offering a very unique and intensive course called Western Water Policy that includes a field trip to Glen Canyon Dam. For more information, go to http://www.redrockinstitute.utah.edu.

Also new this month, GCI has issued a very unique ACTION ALERT (Don't worry, this one doesn't entail the standard appeal to call your congressman). With the low water levels and the widespread restoration occurring in the various canyons, we want to document it and we need your help!

We need all possible documentation of the current restoration of Glen Canyon. If you have taken, or are taking any backpacking, hiking, or river trips into the canyons, please take photos and video. We are even sponsoring a contest for the best submissions. See the alert attached below for more information.

For those of you interested in learning more about the Glen Canyon issue and western water issues in general, the Red Rock Institute at the American West Center (on the University of Utah campus), is offering a very unique and intensive course called Western Water Policy that includes a field trip to Glen Canyon Dam. For more information, go to http://www.redrockinstitute.utah.edu.

There have been a variety of articles pertaining to Glen Canyon and the River Restoration Movement over the last few weeks. We have also included an article of interest about Ed Abbey that was printed last fall. See the links listed below. Also, sometime around the middle of March, Backpacker Magazine's feature article on the recovery of Glen Canyon will be available on a newsstand near you. Keep your eyes peeled.

One final note- GCI's efforts to expand its educational program require that some new equipment be acquired very soon. The necessary items are listed below in the GCI Wishlist section. Any help offered in acquiring these items would be greatly appreciated (i.e.- donation of needed equipment, financial contributions to be used toward purchasing the equipment, wholesale sources for equipment, etc.) That's everything for this month. Take care and feel free to contact us if you need anything.

Long live the Glen,

Christopher Peterson
Executive Director

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GCI WISHLIST
- Adobe Premier (for Mac) video editing program $250
- 120 GB External Harddrive $150
- Apple Power Mac G5 $2000
- Mini Digital Video Camera (3CCD) $1200

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ACTION ALERT!

Help us Document the Recovery of the Glen Canyon Ecosystem!
Glen Canyon is restoring itself and we want to show the world, but we need your help. If you have taken any photos of the area that may be of use to us in our efforts to educate the public about the canyon, we want them. We are especially interested in any video footage of the Glen. We are also interested in any old images or footage from the pre-Powell days in the Glen. We are interested in getting these materials asap; we are working on an interactive educational CD and video footage that will integrate recent and old materials into an educational tool planned for wide distribution.

As an incentive for you to send us whatever visual materials you can get your hands on, GCI is sponsoring a photo/video contest. We have a variety of prizes and awards for the winners of the contest; with the grand prize winner receiving a complimentary trip for two to one of GCAT's exclusive destinations into the restoring side canyons of the Glen. Check our website for more information. Send all entries to: Glen Photo/Video Contest, 450 South 900 East #160, Salt Lake City, UT 84102.

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NEWS ARTICLES

Rafting Past Ghosts in Utah
New York Times writer John Freeman Gill writes about a river trip down the San Juan River and the ghost of Glen Canyon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/travel/29sanjuan.html?ex=1078635600&en=9c2ac9d9e86575d8&ei=5062

Embrey Dam Removed- The Army Corps of Engineers blew up the Embrey Dam in Fredericksburg, Va., recently, allowing the Rappahannock River to flow unmolested from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay for the first time since 1910 -- and making it the longest free-flowing river feeding into the Chesapeake, a renewed migration route for fish that live in the bay but swim upriver to freshwater to spawn.
http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=2062

"Was Ed Abbey an
`Ecoterrorist'?" [No! And neither is anyone else!]- Writer Jim Cahalan looks closely at the philosophy of the Monkey Wrench Gang and Cactus Ed. "Just about nobody irks me more than people who call Edward Abbey an "ecoterrorist."….
http://www.abbeyweb.net/articles/mwgmovie/