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Show THE ZEPHYR APRIL 89 PAGE 10 This road, dubbed the Marina to the Vahweap Marina. Trans Escalante Highway, would have crossed the Escalante River just below the towering Stevens Natural Bridge and the mouth of Coyote Gulch. Vhat an additional tragedy that would have been. Despite gallant opposition, the road was authorized. The funds have yet to be appropri-- K-- D ated. Trail development at that time was accorded a low priority by the state.was But as soon as the Boulder Burr Mountain road near by completed, the Burr Trail was to the Aa a elevated top of the Hat. immediately forerunner to this, Bullfrog Interests had attempted to wheel a power line up Long Canyon and across the Burr Trail route to service their marina. The project has yet to be authorized. problems are ahead regarding the Burr Trail developProjected power line development is but one of The ease of access will endanger adjoining wilderness qualities. For Instance, initial access a number of years ago made possible the wholesale destruction of the petrified forest near the head of Silver Falls Canyon. Huge petrified logs were dynamited into smaller chunks to be hauled away. And now with easier access, the remaining bits and pieces will assuredly disappear. The state has placed a great emphasis upon Lake Powell. Witness the great efforts made to construct the highway and the Burr Trail. Already staggering amounts have been given or pledged toward the Burr Trail development, this at the expense of educational and other needy projects. The state has used funds to build a ferry boat to be used by the marinas on Lake Powell. This cost a fitting to apell out them $900,000. In addition, soma $2 million has been With Che advent of this column, aone thought I have concerning our canyon environment and spent in building roads and communities in the "Ticaboo Service District" in the Bullfrog area. protection. It ia vlth much gratitude that I have been Special And moat the in Just begun. Utah's Governor Bangerter is of able to epend my life canyon country. National Park Service to exchange state lands the and pushing negatively, Having gained many experlencea, poaitlvely that lay within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area for I wiah to draw from them for thia column. I adjoining areas of park lands on the shores of Lake Glen Canyon haa been eapecially rewarding to me. Powell . These would be for Lake Tahoe type of develophave never that will regret that coming generation! ments. Forbiddbe hike never able to will up opportunity. They The tragedy of Lake Powell development is also seen in ing Canyon in route to Rainbow Bridge or enjoy the apirlt demise and neglect of southern Utah's small towns. the The construcof Mualc Temple or Cathedral in the Deaert. g Rather The than available funds being used to build up these dam of care Glen took that. of tion Canyon Colorado River haa been atllled for a while. towns, the funds are going to Lake Powell interests. It Klda of the future have been cheated out of a great is my contention that the use of any available funds heritage. My aim now ia to keep reminding people of our should go to these quaint, small towns to them to become loaa with the hope that there may never again be euch a tourist destination points from which residents and tragedy. One would have thought that there would never visitors may venture out into the canyon areas, to enjoy the canyon experiences, and then to return. The impact to have been another Hetch Hetchy. Ue failed to learn. The canyons themselves waa the environmental the that itaelf canyons would be slight. It bargained community off Glen Canyon. It waa a caae of not knowing better. should be protected at all costs. Now from many quarters comes a great hue and cry that the And part of the bargain in giving it up waa that Rainbow Lake of environmental from waters be the would community should cease its "radical ways" Bridge protected rising To Powell. Also, that Rainbow Bridge National Monument would and once again sit down at the bargaining table. not be Impaired. These provisions were placed into the bargain what? To bargain away our canyon heritage as Glen .aw. there to read. Canyon was bargained off? To be made fools of once again? down "in In essence, the opposition is asking us to As the waters rose , it was evident that nothing was to be The Bureau of Reclamation good conscience and in good faith" to draw up the terms of done to protect the Monument. with the concurrence of the National Park Service allowed surrender. Issue by issue, we are being asked to give up never enough. Soon there the desecration. The waters entered Monument in spite of this and to give up that. the law and the bargains that had been made. So much for would be no natural or wilderness areas left. made me a There comes a time, for each of us, that our conscience honor, for Justice. This great double-cros- s own made g card and our inner soul - rises to say, "I've had enough! No I my environmentalist. up will continue to carry it. I contribute regularly now to morel" At that point there is no retreat or compromise. We are at the very the Advancement of Cynicism. point on a number of environmental and There are continuing threats to the canyon environment. social issues. It was Teddy Roosevelt that said to leave aa After the loss of Glen Canyon, a number of marinas were only tracks in Grand Canyon and to leave is. A established on the shores of Lake Powell. The concessions no compromise stand. And in more recent days, Crand were Issued on a competitive basis, one marina to a Canyon was saved from dam construction because the concessionaire. But somehow the original plan was side- American people said "No more tracked and Del Webb Corporation, of Las Vegas fame, ended And when there was an attempt to place a nuclear waste up with all of them. This company has recently sold their dump at the doorstep of Canyonlands National Park, the property and interests to ARA Services, an international American people again responded. As a result, the "canyon conglomerate. patriots" who were ready to descend on the site to prevent Many ment. them. around the bend it second hand store 1021 mill creek dr. 259-725- 1 what is that? i cant imagine. Trans-Escalan- te by ken sleight it' it's free-lowin- Its Everything That You Can Imagine Is Here. sit It's -- card-carryin- it it plana of ..." During this period of concession expansion, proposals construction state to build a highway from Bullfrog disobedience. were made by the shelved their well-lai- d civil United Cable Television of Moab 89 No. Main 259-81- 36 Coming in April on HBO CINEMAX Bright Lights, Big City Friday the 13th Part VII Above the Law Biloxi Blues Vice Versa & Beetle Juice all foreign & domestic custom exhaust work all work guaranteed |