An extraordinarily beautiful river canyon lay where today’s Lake Powell shimmers. There was nothing else like it on earth with its isolation, twisting and mysterious side canyons, Indian ruins, and gentle, idyllic landforms. But, in the mid-1950s, …
Biologists Help Park Get “Chubbier”
When the Glen Canyon Dam was constructed in the 1960s, there were many unintended consequences to the Grand Canyon ecosystem immediately downstream. One of the more high profile has been the plight of native fish species which have struggled to adapt …