Without delivering a judgment on the decades-old controversy over
the building of Glen Canyon Dam and the creation of Lake Powell,
one can still assert this much: the beauty of Lake Powell is not a warm
and fuzzy, lush meadows, twittering birds and puffy clouds kind of
beauty. It's a stark, striking landscape born of tension among the
elements, including the influence of man. Water and land are in a
perpetual standoff, the lake's shores lapping away at a waterline it
took 17 years to reach, once the dam was complete.
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