Glen Canyon Institute Newsletter!

July 18, 2003

Volume 2, No. 6

Greetings Glen Canyon Institute Members! As you may have heard, we have recently moved our headquarters from Flagstaff to Salt Lake City. Throughout the month of July we have been busy getting things up and running here in Utah. This move to Salt Lake City is especially important as the movement to restore Glen Canyon enters a new phase. With the recent move, GCI welcomes Megan Anderson on board as our newest staff member. More about Megan below.

This newsletter is short and sweet, with the announcement of a new legal fund to help finance the long-term legal battle. We are pleased to announce an incredible opportunity for our members to experience a once-in-a-lifetime concert in the reemerging Cathedral in the Desert. We also want to announce that we have revamped our website and made it much more user-friendly. If you haven’t seen our new brochures on Sedimentation, the Destruction of the Grand Canyon, and the water lost from Lake Powell, check them out at the new site, which is located at: www.glencanyon.org. Spread the word!

For the River,

Chris Peterson

Director

Glen Canyon Legal Fund

The political and legal battles have been heating up with dropping reservoir levels. With the move to Salt Lake City, GCI has taken significant steps toward building a comprehensive legal campaign that seeks to keep the reservoir level down in the short term, and ultimately decommission Glen Canyon Dam. GCI has hired Jeff Appel, a Salt Lake-based attorney who is one of the best environmental defense lawyers in the country, to head up our legal campaign.

In order to finance this new and costly aspect of the movement to restore Glen Canyon, GCI has set up the Glen Canyon Legal Fund. This legal campaign is critical to the realization of a restored Glen Canyon, and we are working to raise money to finance this long-term legal battle. As an incentive to our members and friends to help finance the legal campaign, we will be offering a special invitation(*see offer below) to the first fifty major donors to contribute to the Glen Canyon Legal Fund.

Paul Winter performs in Cathedral in the Desert

In celebration of the reemergence of Cathedral in the Desert (now out of water after 30 years of inundation), the world renowned musician, Paul Winter, will perform in Cathedral in the Desert to a select group of GCI members. The first fifty major donors (*a major donation is considered to be any amount over $200.00) who contribute to the Glen Canyon Legal Fund will receive a special invitation to spend an afternoon in Cathedral in the Desert with Paul Winter. This unique performance will occur on September 20^th and will be followed by lunch and an opportunity to hike up Clear Creek with Paul and other Colorado River lovers. Space is limited, so act now. You don’t want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to hear Paul Winter perform in the reemerging Cathedral in the Desert.

GCI Unveils New Website!

If you haven’t seen the new site yet, log onto www.glencanyon.org and see the sleek new design, complete with pictures of what Glen Canyon was before Powell Reservoir flooded this special place. There are links to our redesigned store as well as links to view our new brochures on sedimentation, the destruction of the Grand Canyon, and the water lost from Powell Reservoir. Also on the site you will be able to find upcoming GCI events and recent news stories. We will continue to work on the site, adding new information as it comes up and making past documents of interest available. Please feel free to give us feedback about our newly designed site at, info@glencanyon.org. Enjoy!!!

Share your Pictures!

At the web site, we now have an area for you to share your photos from trips to the canyon and surrounding areas. You can give us your pictures with captions, descriptions, etc., and we'll put them it up on your own personal photo page on the Glen Canyon Insitute web site. Details at http://www.glencanyon.org/community/community_photos.htm.

GCI Hires New Outreach Director

Megan Anderson has been hired as Glen Canyon Institute’s new Outreach Director. A native resident of Idaho, she has lived in Salt Lake City for the last five years and holds BS degrees in Political Science and Anthropology from the University of Utah. She has done extensive research on dam removal and water policy for the American West Center, a research institute at the University of Utah. As a former Idaho river guide and avid outdoor enthusiast, Megan has a love for free-flowing rivers and will be a wonderful addition to the GCI team!

GCI Fall Conference on November 6^th, 2003

Finally, we want to announce that our fall conference will be held in Salt Lake City on November 6^th, 2003. Our keynote speaker will be Elizabeth Grossman. Ms. Grossman is the author of the recently published book Watershed: The Undamming of America. In addition, Katie Lee, Ellen Melloy, and Brad Dimmock will also speak at the conference. Put it on your calendars and we will give you more information soon.

News Links

A wetlands project for the lower Colorado River has sparked some interest and may get the funding it needs. Based in Yuma, this project could see success! "A three state consortium is under intense pressure from the federal authorities to provide some environmental balance to the entire lower Colorado River, from below Glen Canyon to the Mexican Border".

http://yumasun.com/artman/publish/articles/story_6164.shtml

CO exhaust, a silent killer at Lake Powell. This article discusses the dangers of Carbon Monoxide poisoning from vacationing on houseboats at the reservoir. One more argument for restoring Glen Canyon where rafting and hiking were the recreation of choice and houseboat exhaust was not an issue!

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=9787676&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6

Steve Skinner, a columnist from the Aspen Daily News has recently written an article advocating the renaming of Lake Powell.  You can find his article by visiting www.aspendailynews.com and click on “search columns” and type in Lake Powell.  There are several other articles in addition that deal with Lake Powell.  Check them out!

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