Description
On this classic narrative history of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 1960s, Russell Martin has captured the individual, cultural, political, and environmental dramas that brought into being the environmental movement we know lately.Around the West, calls for the removal of hydroelectric dams constructed throughout the Bureau of Reclamation’s grand century of dam-building are being heard. More than thirty years after its construction, Glen Canyon Dam is still on the vortex of controversy, both as a result of its affect on ecological processes downstream and its drowning of natural landscapes in the back of its headwall. A Story That Stands Like A Dam presents a struggle as compelling and relevant lately as it was once when it all started.