A tale of two signs.

[Dennis S]

The first sign is used on the Navajo reservation to designate a scenic highway.

The second sign is posted at the Glenn Canyon Dam. You can have free membership in a private club tp be formed at an unknown future date if you know why this makes a photographer/nature lover blow his cool.

 

[Dennis S]

The second, disgustingly ironic sign.

 

[geebee]

And doesn't the sign telling us not to deface nature, deface nature?

 

[Dennis S]

You are correct, but the irony runs much deeper than that. Entire books have been written about this particular location.

 

[hensylee]

I haven't a clue. So you have to tell us your secret.

 

[Dennis S]

The answer.

The answer.

The dam which is erected at this spot flooded and filled Glen Canyon, arguably one of the most beautiful canyons in the entire Southwest.

I think it is safe to say that the Glenn Canyon Dam has come to be considered (by many) to be one of the great environmental mistakes in our country's history.

The following excerpt gives a short explanation "... in this exquisite canyon made up of narrow labyrinths with fern grottos and places with names like Music Temple and Tapestry Wall. With the closing of the gates at Glen Canyon Dam, this magical place was destroyed. Ancient Anasazi ruins and rock art, unfathomable formations and countless other sights and sounds and silence, along with the solitaire of the Eden-like canyon now lie under several hundred feet of water."

An exquisite part of our national heritage. Most of us have never seen it. None of our children will ever see it.

 

[hensylee]

The dam which is erected at this spot flooded and filled Glen Canyon, arguably one of the most beautiful canyons in the entire Southwest.

I think it is safe to say that the Glenn Canyon Dam has come to be considered (by many) to be one of the great environmental mistakes in our country's history.

The following excerpt gives a short explanation "... in this exquisite canyon made up of narrow labyrinths with fern grottos and places with names like Music Temple and Tapestry Wall. With the closing of the gates at Glen Canyon Dam, this magical place was destroyed. Ancient Anasazi ruins and rock art, unfathomable formations and countless other sights and sounds and silence, along with the solitaire of the Eden-like canyon now lie under several hundred feet of water."

An exquisite part of our national heritage. Most of us have never seen it. None of our children will ever see it.

thanks, Dennis. I was going to try to answer and that would have been 'because it already has its own beauty and nobody needs to add to it' but it didn't sound right enough, but it wasn't far off except that the beauty is under the water. Such a shame......