"If we preserved as parks only those places that have no economic possibilities, we would have no parks." - Wallace Stegner, writer and editor (from This Is Dinosaur, 1956)
Echo Park Dam opposition article
{Saturday Evening Post, 1950} |
Water line on Steamboat Rock if a reservoir was there {Wallace Stegner Collection, 2014}
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"And what of the canyon rivers of Dinosaur? Are they worth more as kilowatts? At least you know that no other national park or monument reserves for and your children, unspoiled, anything like them." - David Bradley (from This Is Dinosaur, 1956) |
Anti-Dam brochure 1955
{Colorado Encyclopedia, 2015} |
"The report said flatly that dams at Echo Park and Split Mountain “would deprive Dinosaur National monument of its qualifications as a monument”." |
"Outside there are other canyons- Glen, the San Juan, Cataract and Labyrinth, even the big Grand itself. But, for all their majesty, not one can give you what these Dinosaur canyons give: elbow room, space, sport, the sense of being an intimate part of the living world." -David Bradley (from This Is Dinosaur, 1956)