Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your entertaining report ... is vivid and accurate, except for one paragraph. Opposition to Echo Park Dam, which would flood most of Dinosaur National Monument, has been led by all of the national conservation organizations of the nation; the protests have come from millions of people of every state, who see their national park system endangered...
Echo Park Dam would ruin the extraordinary canyons in the monument, and it is not necessary in order to provide the desired water and power benefits, since there are alternative methods...
...against the project have hit McKay's desk. Reason: professional nature lovers like Bernard DeVoto, Richard Neuberger and Wallace Stegner, all of whom wear shoes and live in houses while writing about the great outdoors, have raised an outcry because the project would flood part of Dinosaur National Monument...
...land registrar from a New Year's Eve dance to file his claim at Beatrice, Neb., later built a log cabin for his family and planted 400 peach trees on his 160-acre quarter section. Typically, Interior has since reclaimed the claim. Now it's Homestead National Monument...
...deserts flower. The Interior Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...