THE CRACKING OF GLEN CAYON DAM, MARCH 1981:
In Edward Abbey’s 1975 novel, The Monkey Wre
In Edward Abbey’s 1975 novel, The Monkey Wre
nch Gang, a group of eco-saboteurs plot to blow up the Glen Canyon Dam, which they see as violating a beautiful, wild river. Six years later, a radical new environmental group, Earth First! held its first public protest, dropping a 300-foot plastic “crack” down the side of Glen Canyon Dam. Earth First! contended that mainstream environmental groups were too moderate in the face of the continued destruction of wilderness in the American West.
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