Yep! I'm very familiar with GEMs (thru Ed's writings....) Really??? They're taking a dam down???? How coooooolllll!!! Thanks for that info! Made my day!<br><br><b><i>Hiker97@aol.com</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name="GENERATOR"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <div> <div>Wheeeew writes: <font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">And in learning about all this I'm also getting an education about David Brower, who I had not heard of, but did much to prevent dams being built in the Southwest. There's now a movement underway to take down Glen Canyon Dam. I'm thinking about joining it. When will we accept that we're not smarter than
nature???</font></div> <div><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">----------------------------------------------------------</font></div> <div><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Switchback replies: DOWN WITH GEMs!! As Ed Abbey would say. I think he had a secret plan to do Glen Canyon dam in. IMHO. I heard that Hetch Hetchy dam (the one that killed John Muir when it passed to be built) is coming down. I hope so. </font><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">By the way, GEM stands for Giant Earth Mover equipment. Long live Trail Pirates!</font></div></div> <div><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"></font> <div></div>
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