Author: United States. Congress. House. Public landsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Central Arizona Project, Hearings Before ..., Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 1950
Author: United States. Congress. House. Public landsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Interior Department Appropriations for 1952, Hearings Before ... 82-1, on H.R. 3790
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Printed Hearings of the House of Representatives Found Among Its Committee Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1824-1958
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2358
Book Description
Interior Department Appropriations for 1952
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 1704
Book Description
The Central Arizona Project. Hearings ... on H.R. 934 and 935 ... March 30-31, April 1-2, 4-6, 9, 27-28, and May 5-7, 9m, 11, 1949
Author: United States. Congress. House. Public landsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description
Saving Grand Canyon
Author: Byron E PearsonPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1948908328
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards 2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America The Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific Southwest. These efforts reached their climax during the 1960s when the federal government tried to build two massive hydroelectric dams in the Grand Canyon. Although not located within the Grand Canyon National Park or Monument, they would have flooded lengthy, unprotected reaches of the canyon and along thirteen miles of the park boundary. Saving Grand Canyon tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America’s most spectacular natural wonders. Based on twenty-five years of research, this fascinating ride through history chronicles a hundred years of Colorado River water development, demonstrates how the National Environmental Policy Act came to be, and challenges the myth that the Sierra Club saved the Grand Canyon. It also shows how the Sierra Club parlayed public perception as the canyon’s savior into the leadership of the modern environmental movement after the National Environmental Policy Act became law. The tale of the Sierra Club stopping the dams has become so entrenched—and so embellished—that many historians, popular writers, and filmmakers have ignored the documented historical record. This epic story puts the events from 1963–1968 into the broader context of Colorado River water development and debunks fifty years of Colorado River and Grand Canyon myths.