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Show 18 increasing the size of other projects and building alternative dams outside the federally protected monument. One of the alternatives that the coalition endorsed was an increase in the size of the proposed Glen Canyon Dam in Southern Utah. Many have referred to this canyon as the sacrificial lamb of the Echo Park compromisc. 43 Although the Echo Park Dam in Dinosaur National Monument was defeated, the result was Lake Powell, a flooded Glen Canyon, and, according to historian Mark W. T. Harvey, "the most difficult, complex, and, in hindsight, bittersweet aspects of the whole controversy.·'44 The Deserel News and The Salt Lake Tribune editorially supported the Echo Park Dam. One Deseret News editor chastised the Eastern press for its opposition to a dam that would cover one-third of Steamboat Rock - a prominent feature in the monument: "The altering of Steamboat Rock .. would be similar to my objection of removal of one 20slory building from New York City on the grounds that it would ruin the famous skyline. You have more buildings than you can count - we have more stone mountains than we can count.'.4 5 The Tribune ran an editorial revealing a philosophy that reflects Pinchot's idea of conservation: "No scenic features of the monument will be destroyed. Instead, they will be enhanced with the addition ofa vast lake, and made available to all." 46 1larvey articulated how the outcome of this controversy affected the conservation movement: 43 Ibid., 222; Nash, Wilderness and the Amel"icun Mind, 228-29. 44 Harvey, A Symbol of Wilderness, 222 4 s Ibid., 244, quoting a lclter from Deseret News editor Theron Liddle to New York Times columnist John Oakes. 46 [bid. , 265, quoting the editorial position of The Salt lake Tribune. |
