scholarly journals Biological data for water in Lake Powell and from Glen Canyon Dam releases, Utah and Arizona, 1990–2009

Data Series ◽  
10.3133/ds959 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Vernieu
Keyword(s):  
Biological Data ◽  
Glen Canyon Dam ◽  
Lake Powell ◽  
Glen Canyon ◽  
Dam Releases

The poetics of restoring Glen Canyon: the ‘desert imagination’ of Ellen Meloy and Terry Tempest Williams

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-618
Author(s):  
Laura Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Environmental Condition ◽  
Terry Tempest Williams ◽  
Environmental Writing ◽  
Glen Canyon Dam ◽  
Lake Powell ◽  
Glen Canyon ◽  
Personal Engagement

There has been a literary tradition supporting the restoration of Glen Canyon in southern Utah ever since construction began on Glen Canyon Dam in the late 1950s, and the canyons began to disappear behind the rising waters of Lake Powell. While some of Glen Canyon’s literary protagonists put forward a strong political and anarchical refrain for a ‘Glen Canyon restored’, this article considers those writers and texts that instead look to the power of appeals to emotion in defense of the desert. In particular, this article considers the evocative capacity of environmental writing to convey emotional and affective landscapes. This article examines the desert writings of Ellen Meloy and Terry Tempest Williams, and the ways in which they employ rhetoric, myth, story, motifs, metaphor, symbolism, and allegory to speak back to the environmental condition, and the ongoing call to restore Glen Canyon. Meloy’s and Williams’ works present individual testimonies molded by personal engagement, experience, and investigation in the desert – but also contribute to ecological and political discourse in the Glen.

scholarly journals Simulating the effects of Glen Canyon Dam releases on Grand Canyon river trips

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Borkan ◽  
A. Heaton Underhill
Keyword(s):  
Grand Canyon ◽  
Glen Canyon Dam ◽  
Glen Canyon ◽  
Dam Releases
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