Action Alert! Glen Canyon needs your help today.
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Spectacular and priceless features have emerged from Lake Powell in the last month. As it now stands, precious features such as Cathedral in the Desert and Fort Moqui will go right back under 25-50 feet of water during May and June--only to be uncovered once again later this year. Reflooding Glen Canyon is unneccessary because the "surplus" water can easily be stored in reservoirs upstream or downstream. (**hydrologic explanation below)
The Glen Canyon Institute has launched a campaign to protect the emerging features in Glen Canyon and we need your help! We have begun to build a coalition of organizations and individuals who will help us advocate for the protection of Cathedral in the Desert, Fort Moqui, and Rainbow Bridge National Monument from being flooded unnecessarily.
How you can help:
1. Please sign on to our online petition which will be sent directly to the Secretary of the Interior, asking her to store the "surplus" runoff somewhere besides Glen Canyon.
2. Also, please send a letter to your Congressman, asking them to stop the reflooding of Glen Canyon. You may download our sample letter or create one of your own.
3. Please help us bring national attention to this tragedy in the making by sending a letter to the editor of your newspaper demanding that Glen Canyon be spared from reflooding.
4. And finally, foward this email to everyone your know. We need as many voices as possible to sway our national leaders to protect the emerging features in Glen Canyon.
Ft Moqui's historic "register rock"
uncovered April 03, 2005.
Photo by Chris Peterson
The emerging cultural, biological, and scenic resources in Glen Canyon are priceless and must be protected. Thank you for your support and help in fighting to protect "America's Lost National Park."
Free the Colorado!
Christopher Peterson
Executive Director
Glen Canyon Institute
**Hydrologic Explanation: Re-flooding Cathedral in the Desert and Glen Canyon this Spring is not necessary. National Resources Conservation Service predicts 8.6 million acre feet (maf) Upper Basin runoff between April-July 2005. This spring, 6.4 maf will be used, evaporate, or be released to downstream users, leaving 2.2 maf "surplus", which can easily be stored in the Upper Basin's 2.4 maf of available storage, or at Lake Mead's 11.1 maf available storage..
