Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 175: "The 1960s U.S. Government Plan To Flood The Grand Canyon"
This is the bonus show for Episode 175! (Coal)
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of a joint federal/Arizona proposal to flood the Grand Canyon, which almost went forward.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon (JStor Daily)
Grand Canyon National Park: Rivers and Streams (U.S. National Park Service)
A Journey Through the Major Dams of the Lower Colorado River (U.S. Geological Survey)
Parker Dam (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)
Davis Dam (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)
Ridley Scott Blasts Historians Over Napoleon Complaints: 'Shut the F— Up' (CBR.com) -- here's Scott's key quote: "Like all history, it's been reported. Napoleon dies, then, 10 years later, someone writes a book. Then someone takes that book and writes another book and so, 400 years later there's a lot of imagination [in history books]. When I have issues with historians, I ask: 'Excuse me, mate were you there? No? Well, shut the f*** up then'."
Lone Pine, CA: Home to Mt. Whitney (website of Inyo County, California)
Healthy snowpack provides water for long-delayed Grand Canyon environmental flood (The Arizona Republic)
Environmentalists and park workers criticise Grand Canyon flooding (The Guardian)
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