O.A.R.S. founder and Grand Canyon guru George Wendt wrote a great piece in Canoe and Kayak a few days ago calling for establishment of The Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument to protect and preserve the 1.7 million acres of land surrounding Grand Canyon NP.
From the piece –
…The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon is nearly indescribable in words, but I believe President Theodore Roosevelt does it justice when he said: “In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it…”
Worth a read today (this was to be our Conservation Wednesday piece yesterday, though a 7 hour business drive and meeting turned into a 13 hour venture…) – read the full piece here.
Read more about George Wendt’s O.A.R.S. group here.
