This Is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and Its Magic Rivers

Description

Editor: Stegner, Wallace  (1909-1993)

Publisher: Alfred A Knopf

Pub Date: 1955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Without dust jacket.  Numerous pages have lower corner folded.  Boards have corner and edge wear.  Some scuffing to boards.  Map endpapers.  Includes poster “What Is Your Stake in Dinosaur?”

Notes: In the early 1950s, the Bureau of Reclamation wanted to build a series of dams along the Colorado River, including IN the Grand Canyon.  Other dams were proposed along the Green and Yampa Rivers that would have flooded Echo Canyon (including parts of Dinosaur National Monument, as eventually happened in Glen Canyon.  This book, and the accompanying pamphlet (produced by the Trustees for Conservation, an environmental organization formed in 1954, to oppose the construction of the Echo Park Dam.  Members included Ansel Adams, David Brower, Wallace Stegner, and Alfred A. Knopf, among others).  Color and black and white photography.  Essays by Stegner, geologist Eliot Blackwelder, noted river-runner Otis “Dock” Marston, and Bob Lister, among others.  I hate to say it this way, but Glen Canyon was the sacrificial lamb to protect Dinosaur.  And here we are…