Another magnificent natural wonder--
Another fight between those who wish to preserve it, and those who wish to preserve it, and also those who wish to preserve it.
Questions surrounding the Grand Canyon Green Wash:
Will flooding the Grand Canyon help protect it from further erosion?
Isn't the Grand Canyon itself the result of erosion?
Hasn't this been tried before, in the early 1990's, and the results 'hotly debated'?
It sounds superb on paper. Green Wash. I'm an American. Therefore I am all for any plan to save anything. Particularly Mother Nature's creations.
So that reading about the plan to help our incredible Grand Canyon continue to be its awe inspiring self, I commenced to read about it enthusiastically.
And was immediately reminded that in America everyone gets their say, in however many words they want, so that the information, unintelligible to me the layman, knew no limits.
I think I gleaned that the plan serves little long term good in aiding the preservation of the Grand Canyon, because it needs to be done more often. There was something about the endangered humpback chub fish that worried me. And something about sand bars used by rafters, that didn't.
But in the end, I understood very little, and only in the vaguest sense possible. Therefore I was unable to formulate an opinion worth more than a burnt piece of pie.
When I lived in Northern Florida, I fell ferociously in love with the endangered Everglades, and thought I might...you know, help. I started by trying to read up on it. Only to be met by a concrete barrier, miles high and incomprehensible, of conflicting and finger pointing information.
In the end, I will have to rely on those who know more than me. Those with degrees in engineering and cloud formation, and the loudest voices.
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