The Nature Pages

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	The Glen Canyon Reader edited by Mathew Barrett Gross University of Arizona Press, 2003		Glen Canyon Institute
	Like the antiquities of Egypt buried in the backwaters of the Aswan Dam, the natural treasures of Glen Canyon submerged beneath Lake Powell since 1963 are a priceless artifact that can never be recovered.
	Remembrances of writers like Edward Abbey and Wallace Stegner and Zane Grey who knew Glen Canyon before the damming of the Colorado River are collected in this anthology of 19 essays, memoirs and natural histories. Each piece describes or reflects upon the lost canyon below Lake Powell.		Glen Canyon NRA
	"The red rock was stained with the dark manganese exudations called desert varnish, striped black to green to yellow to white along horizontal lines of seepage, patched with the chemical, sunless green of moss," writes Stegner in 'Glen Canyon Submersus.'
	"One such grotto was named Music Temple by Major John Wesley Powell on his first expedition, in 1869; another is the so-called Cathedral in the Desert, at the head of Clear Water Canyon off the Escalante.
	"That was what Glen Canyon was like before the closing of the dam in 1963. What was flooded here was potentially a superb national park."		Glen Canyon Dam History & Tours