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Jun 1, 2022Liked by Jonathan P. Thompson

In other words, just THINK how bad things could be if they had been "successful"! Hard to believe it could be worse than it is.

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Jun 2, 2022Liked by Jonathan P. Thompson

I think you do Cisco a great disservice by not recognizing it for the resort community it currently is! Heck! There is even a place to stay AND a convenience store. Although I will admit I have not dared explore either…

And credit is due the Sierra Club for saving Echo Park from inundation, but if credit is given, then responsibility must also be assigned for their acceptance of Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Foul. Traded because they had no idea how beautiful, unique, and precious Glen Canyon was. (While listing the crimes of the Sierra Club, we should never forget that this small group of white West Coast men also perverted the 1964 Wilderness Act in 1984 by removing bicycles from “aceptable” means of travel in designated Wilderness despite the long history of their use, their low impact nature, and the fact that the original Wilderness Act included bikes.)

Finally, I am interested that you make no mention of the connection of Lake Nightsoil and the coal slurry pipeline it was also designed to feed for the coal power plant planned for Southwest of Durango and one of the real reasons Democratically elected, Republican Senator Nighthorse-Campbell (retired) fought dirty, wrapped the project in an Indian blanket, and ultimately successfully to build a reservoir directly adjacent to a Uranium tailings burial pit.

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