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Book Review: Dead Pool: Lake Powell , Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West ( University of California , 2008). By Wayne Lusvardi American newspaperman Louis Malcolm Boyd once wrote “there are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.” Recently, the world has begun to learn about the dealings of the first type but we still seem to be living in a bubble about the second. In this case, the second type is not a table pool player but James Lawrence Powell’s apocalyptic new book, Dead Pool: Lake Powell , Global Warming, and the Future...

SNIPPET: "The fire was reported about 11:23 p.m. Thursday by someone who called 911 reporting flames coming from the covered slips at the Halls Crossing Marina, a remote part of Lake Powell on the Kane/San Juan County border. National Park Service firefighters from all over responded, some flying up from Page, Ariz., to help. Photographs provided to the Deseret News showed boats engulfed in flames and burned out hulls floatingon the water. There were more than 150 boats moored at the marina — firefighters saved about 130 of them." SNIPPET: "Anyone with information on the fire is asked to call...

A trip to Lake Powell could cost you a bit more if an Arizona city succeeds in annexing a portion of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. National Park Service officials worry the measure could affect hunting within the park and send ripples through the agency, setting a precedent for how other national parks are managed. In order to reap the revenue from a proposed 3 percent sales tax at the Wahweap and Antelope Point marinas and other concessionaires within the park, the city of Page, Ariz., wants to annex 21,000 acres of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and the Glen...

Compromise: The accord would divvy up the basin's water during dry years Representatives of the seven Colorado River Basin states announced Friday they have reached a tentative agreement about how the river will be managed during water shortages. The deal culminates a year of sometimes stormy negotiations between upper basin states Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, plus California, Arizona and Nevada in the lower basin over how the river's precious resource should be shared. The stakes are enormous. Interior Secretary Gale Norton late in 2004 gave the seven basin states until February to submit a joint proposal for an...

Recently Backpacker magazine published an article in support of making Glen Canyon and Lake Powell a National Park. Lake Powell is already designated a National Recreation Area so this is a suspicious action to say the least.

Hi Everyone: My name is Peter Flax; I'm Backpacker's executive editor.

For four short years I have been watching the developing and in most cases already existing problems with water management boil. It seemed that during the height of the drought that maybe the Federal Government would step in and demand action or it would take action, that does not look likely now with a good water year under our belts. This was in fact the case last year as Sec Norton promised intervention if the States did not resolve the current conflict, that of usage allocation. Most would agree that the pie was cut into to many slices originally, which...

Prayers needed from you precious, prayerful Freepers My family and I are in need of prayer..Would you all make a little time to seek the Lord in a request from my family? We are broken hearted today. I never, ever thought we would be so attached to a little dog like we are this one...Especially my daughter. she's having a real hard time. Over the weekend our family pet (Maxie the Chihuahua) was removed or let out of our hotel room by someone who has access to key cards... We had put up a sign a do not disturb hanger...

Letter to ABC RE: Nightline April 11th In a supreme effort to raise money GCI has slipped between the sheets of the liberal media giant ABC. The only question is who is using who? Or are they both mutually beneficial piles of manure used to fertilize their joined liberal cause? ABC has thrown it's obvious one sided news reporting behind the effort to drain Lake Powell with it April 11th broadcast on "Nightline". A broadcast in which only one side of the story was told, a style that ABC is well known for. The viewers where treated to some very...

http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/cathedral_ft.moqui/ The above link points out that their latest "cause" is the CID - one of a long list of "poster children" historically used. In a continuing effort to remove Glen Canyon Dam Activists have launched a public media blitz to win public favor - while well planned and supported by the bias mainstream media it is largely falling on deaf ears. http://www.lakepowellblogger.com/index.cfm?action=viewpost&postid=249 http://www.lakepowellblogger.com/index.cfm?action=viewpost&postid=222 http://www.lakepowellblogger.com/index.cfm?action=viewpost&postid=215 Lake Powell has weathered many attacks in which the "cause" was a bird, a chub (fish), a beach, water loss (seepage-evaporation), historic ruins, pollution or what ever truth can be bent.

(author comments) - Environmentalists lauch massive fund raising effort through the media to try and stop the refilling of Lake Powell. Proposal to Make Glen Canyon a National Park is a smoke screen the real effort is to raise money. Excerpt:March 25, 2005 For Immediate Release Glen Canyon National Park proposal for revealed landscape in Glen Canyon. Contact: Ingebretsen, GCI President 801.363.4450 The Glen Canyon Institute (GCI) has introduced a proposal to change Glen Canyon National Recreation Area into declared as a National Park. "Emerging wonders that have been revealed as a result of low water levels of Lake Powell...

I had a rare moment- I had a thought - in this article (see link below fron Denver Post) it appeared it was more of the blah blah blah about how we are wrecking the Grand Canyon with the dam, and there are to many people and the the beaches are all getting washed away -

In this article from the Rocky Mountian News it appears that the adminstrators of the water for the Colorado mis-calculated the amount of water available - Thinking 20 million plus AF was available while the real number is 13 million AF. they (the users) have been over spending the resource for years even without the drought. This incredible mis-managment has now put the entire Colorado water/power system in grave danger. If this is true the time to cut back is long past. Emergency measures need to be taken now to rebuild the water supplies in lakes Mead and Powell. Write...

Group petitions National Parks service to stop the refilling of Lake Powell. Many expect the next step will be legal action to block the refilling of Lake Powell. The pawn in this action will be the overly abused Endangered Species Act (ESA)- like the evaporation issue on water storage was debunked so are the ESA issues for not refilling Lake Powell. Support House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo, R-Calif efforts to change the ESA - send a letter today.

Very valid concern is expressed about the possibility that legal action may be taken to prevent the refilling of Lake Powell during the spring run off. Friends of Lake Powell is encouraging anyone who is concerned to write to there Senator to bring about the needed change to protect Lake Powell. Several sample letters and critical points can be found at http://http://www.lakepowellblogger.com./index.cfm?action=viewpost&postid=109 Any help is greatly appreciated

Dear, Congressman and US Senators I am contacting you because of my concern for the continuing drought in Idaho and how it relates to the management of Lake Powell in southern Utah. You are aware I am sure, that we are going into six years of severe drought here in the west that has reduced reservoir storage throughout Idaho and the West especially at Lake Powell. I realize that Lake Powell is not in Idaho and you may feel that it falls outside of your representative roll - but take a few minutes to see the important connection Lake Powell...

The Bush adminstration has stepped in to right yet another Clinton adminstration wrong - Hopefully he will become aware of the damage being done to Lake Powell by a lingering Clinton adminstration and poor adminstration of the water resource - GW to the rescue.

Questions about the Grand Canyon Management call for General Accounting office investigation.

This is an interesting read which again throws into question the BOR's claimed "No significant Impact" report. The simple truth is that a full and complete accounting of impact from these type of junk science projects has not been done. It's interesting that press reports of success came out while the flood was still happening. Just like the Exit polls on our recent election. The water used was already banked (FALSE) are sprayed around like truth.

This week Enviro-mentalists posing as scientists opened the flood gates to the Glen Canyon Dam that holds back beautiful Lake Powell. The purpose of the man made flood was to provide habitat for the humpback chub and build beaches for river rafters to sun bath on (the flood thing was tried in 1966 – it failed on every account) but yet they waste precious water and do it again – why you ask? Well to build the beaches – it seems that the river runners have joined forces with the Dam busters in a long term strategy to remove Lake...

I think we could smell the wild ride, beach party thing coming before it happened - the really big question is - wouldn't you evaluate the results after the flood event rather than during it? The rafters truly are bedding down with the eco pukes - there are roughly ten thousand people who ride the waves down the Colorado every year - but there are close to three million that visit Lake Powell every year - it appears that the recent drought has sharpened the attentions of enough of those three million users to want to pull the plug on...

Original Post: A comment to the rafters of the Colorado - Are you friends to Lake Powell??? Message: This just a breif comment to the rafters of the Colorado below Lake Powell - it is time you guys realized that if Lake Powell where not in place your life would be much different, different but not better. By the fact that Lake Powell regulates a constant flow providing assurance that your precious river will be raftable (even in the grasp of a all time historic drought) seems to have escaped many of you. Other rivers are not so Lucky -...

On Nov. 21st there is a planned early release of water that will lower the Lake Level by 3 feet - this is a planned release that is supposed to establish new beaches for river runners and help save the humback chub. The problem is we are in a six drought and what most of California does not realize is that if Powell runs dry California will run dry - current estimates place it at no more than two years at the current rate of decline. Consider this if Lake Powell had not been in place Lake Mead would be...

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The Denver Post perspective Drought's a tricky phenomenon By Klaus Wolter Sunday, May 02, 2004 - In much of Colorado, the 1980s and '90s were years of benign climate conditions. Dry years were rare, and some of the wettest years on record were observed along the Front Range. If you moved into our state during this period, you might have gotten a misleading impression about typical conditions here. Beginning in September 1999, Colorado experienced severe drought conditions, part of a global drought pattern that covered a large fraction of the United States, the Mediterranean, and southwest Asia. (It led to...

<p>Not much for Romeo and Juliet. But the proposal to rename Lake Powell as Glen Canyon Reservoir has plenty of significance.</p> <p>It has almost nothing to do with names and everything to do with a campaign to decommission Glen Canyon Dam and drain the lake.</p>

Personal Watercraft use will be prohibited within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area effective November 6, 2002. A National Park Service ruling regarding personal watercraft use within the National Park Service System and a subsequent court settlement agreement with Bluewater Network will effect the use of personal watercraft within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. (NRA) As of September 15, 2002, Personal Watercraft will not be allowed to operate within Glen Canyon NRA until a regulation is finalized. An environmental analysis regarding personal watercraft use on Lake Powell is underway but will not be completed by the September 15th deadline established by...