All My Rivers Are Gone av Katie Lee

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<p>David Brower, who has always regretted the Sierra Club''s failure to save the Glen Canyon, called it The Place No One Knew. But Katie Lee was among a handful of people who knew the 170 miles of Glen Canyon very well. She''d made sixteen trips down the river, even named some of the side canyons. Glen Canyon and the river that ran through it had changed her life. Her descriptions of a magnificent desert oasis and its rich archaeological ruins are a paean to paradise lost. In 1963, the US Government''s Bureau of Reclamation (the ¿Wreck-the-Nation Bureau¿, Katie calls it) shut off the flow of the Colorado River at Glen Canyon Dam, beginning the process of flooding this natural treasure. Three generations have been born since the dam was built, and in a few more decades there may be no one alive who will have known the place. Katie Lee didn''t forget Glen Canyon, and she didn''t want anyone else to forget it either. She tells us what there was to love about Glen Canyon and why we should