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<br />l. <br /> <br />.~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />- . I <br />Bold plan <br />to drain <br />.lake spurs <br />opposition <br /> <br />LAKE POWELL from Page 1A <br />liliciallake, Lake Powell bas serv- <br />ed lor lbe pasl 20 years as a mas- <br />sive waler bank lor Hood conlrol, <br />for 'hydroeleclric power and for <br />guaranteeing sleady water sup- <br />plies 10 Phoenix, Las Vegas and <br />Los Angeles. <br />Lake Powell bas also become a <br />runaway recreational success sto- <br />ry. Lasl year, 2.5 million. people <br />visited lhe remole lake lhat is lour <br />hours Irom Grand Junction. <br />Ollhese visilors 10 Glen Canyon <br />National Recrealion Area, mosl of <br />which is in Utah, almosl1.8 millio. <br />camped overnighl, jusl under thE <br />2.1 million who slayed at YosemitE <br />National Park, tbe nalion's mosl <br />'popular camping area. <br />Lulled by tbose numbers, fe.. <br />people took il seriously last yea. <br />when David Brower, lhe founder oj <br />. .the Sierra Club, proposed lbat lh. <br />"lake be drained. <br />. If lhal were done, he said, thE <br />flooded scenery of Glen Canyor <br />would be recovered and a wild riv. <br />er habitat would be restored fOI <br />'endangered fish in lhe Grand Can <br />.yon, 40 miles downstream. <br />. To many people's surprise, th. <br />plan has gained momenlum. Las <br />;Novembcr, the execulive board 0 <br />the Sierra Club, an organizaliol <br />:wilh 600,000 members, unanimous <br />ly endorsed the plan. <br />: Organized opposition 10 lhe pIa. <br />has lormed only recenUy. <br />, "People are only now beginninl <br />,10 wake up to this threal," sai, <br />'Larry Tarp, a retiree who tWI <br />.months ago organized Friends 0 <br />Lake Powell. "If tbey gel ,rid 0 <br />.1. .this dam, lhey would go for lh, <br />"next one, and then the next one." <br />I ' On Tuesday, Tarp is to teslily b <br />:Washington al hearings on th, <br />lake-drainage proposal called b: <br />Rep. James Hansen, R.Utah. <br />Brower, 84, who has spent half <br />,century baltling the governmen <br />over environmental issues, plans I <br />,teslily aboul lhe lost beauty c <br />Glen Canyon. <br />"That dam destroyed one 01 lh <br />most magnificent places On Earl <br />.in order 10 have flalwater recr! <br />ation," he said fr9m his home i <br />Rorkef.\'. rolif, <br /> <br />j <br />" . <br />; ~ <br />