In this classic narrative history of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 1960s, Russell Martin has captured the individual, cultural, political, and environmental dramas that brought into being the environmental movement we know today.Across the West, calls for the removal of hydroelectric dams constructed during the Bureau of Reclamation's grand century of dam-building are being heard. More than thirty years after its construction, Glen Canyon Dam is still at the vortex of controversy, both because of its impact on ecological processes downstream and its drowning of natural landscapes behind its headwall. A Story That Stands Like A Dam presents a struggle as compelling and relevant today as it was when it began.
- ISBN10 087480597X
- ISBN13 9780874805970
- Publish Date 17 August 1999 (first published 1 November 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Utah Press,U.S.
- Edition Univ of Utah PR ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English