Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?
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Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?
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Re: Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?
#2As a regular visitor to the Grand Canyon, this saddens me, but fortunately the Grand Canyon is big, and even if this gets built, there are still plenty of places where you can visit the canyon and see next to no development, such as Toroweap:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroweap_Overlook
My hope is that enough of the canyon access remains dirt roads and trails, with nothing but a few camp sites at the end.
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#3>A holy war is being fought
I guess I know which side I'm on.
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#4A gondola ride to the bottom of the Grand Canyon would be like a gondola ride to the top of Everest.
These projects are deeply frustrating because all the developers have to do is get them built once - they can essentially fail as many times as they need to in order to get their project built. If you oppose this kind of project, you have to succeed in your efforts over and over again. If you fail once, the wild nature of the place is lost.
We need to preserve wild places, and this is one of them.
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#5As a regular visitor to the Grand Canyon, this saddens me, but fortunately the Grand Canyon is big, and even if this gets built, there are still plenty of places where you can visit the canyon and see next to no development, such as Toroweap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroweap_Overlook My hope is that enough of the canyon access remains dirt roads and trails, with nothing but a few camp sites at the end.
...until drones can stay airborne for longer times.
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#7I couldn't get a real sense of just where this development wanted to be, what it looked like: http://grandcanyonescalade.com/comparison-chart-grand-canyon...
That monstrosity should absolutely not be built.
Re: Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?
#8As a regular visitor to the Grand Canyon, this saddens me, but fortunately the Grand Canyon is big, and even if this gets built, there are still plenty of places where you can visit the canyon and see next to no development, such as Toroweap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroweap_Overlook My hope is that enough of the canyon access remains dirt roads and trails, with nothing but a few camp sites at the end.
...until drones can stay airborne for longer times.
Drone use is prohibited in national parks.
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#9I couldn't get a real sense of just where this development wanted to be, what it looked like: http://grandcanyonescalade.com/comparison-chart-grand-canyon... That monstrosity should absolutely not be built.
Do you live in Arizona? Are you affected by this in any sense? Why shouldn't the people who live there have the say in it. It's jobs for them, it's their home. The Grand Canyon is thousands of feet deep and hundreds of miles long, it formed millions of years ago. It doesn't need to be "saved" from a tourist attraction that will be a blip on a tiny side of the canyon and an even smaller blip in the history of it. The Grand Canyon is not in any danger.
It's so frustrating to see people who come to places they're not from and protest in fights that they have no stake in, shouting their opinions, generally making everything worse and when the fight is over go on to the next place.
Re: Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?
#10A gondola ride to the bottom of the Grand Canyon would be like a gondola ride to the top of Everest. These projects are deeply frustrating because all the developers have to do is get them built once - they can essentially fail as many times as they need to in order to get their project built. If you oppose this kind of project, you have to succeed in your efforts over and over again. If you fail once, the wild natur…
A gondola ride to the top of Everest would be awesome. Right now, 1.4% of the people who try to summit it die. That's ludicrous and totally indefensible. Anyway it's not as wild as it used to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest#Everest_economy