| Show A10M11dWad 8T The Salt Lake Tribune Visitors too Sunday February 26 1989 IGELES-- 1 ToSA Developers pose dire threat to parks from By Mike Shoup The headline On the front page of Tour and Travel News a trade publication certainly caught my eye It said: 'Grand Canyon Gets Theme Park" Grand Canyon Gets Theme Park? Sure enongh the story described how an S30 million Western-themeamusement park and hotel would be built in Williams Ariz — about 60 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park near Interstate 40 The president of the development firm a guy named Robert Roth was quoted in the article: -We see this as elevating the status of our magnificent Grand Canyon from an international tourist attraction to an international tourist destination" Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that this developer is saying he's going to improve t he Grand Canyon with a theme park Taking on that task it seems to me reqiiires not just $80 million but also an awful lot of chutzpah to say the least — since the canyon has been around for more than a few million years and there are a lot of people vho think it's fine just the way it is And it raises at least one big question in my mind: flow long are we going to permit developers to improve upon nature with condos and theme parks and ski resorts and hotels and shopping centers? Until there is no nature left? 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