Lake Powell

[haydukelives]

OK never tried to post anything before.
this is my sons first paper in his freshman year of Environmental Science degree
http://wakepowell.com/Wake_Powell.html

[wtmusic]

1. The desire to protect...natural environments is...counteractive to social, and economic advancement

Hmm.

Welcome to DU.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. He does an unsubstantiated hachet job on David Brower, also.

[haydukelives]

3. David Bower

is a hatchet job. Hatchet jobs are what David does.

[Kolesar]

6. To his credit, we have North Cascades NP, Redwood NP, the National Environmental Policy Act,...

and Dinosaur NM, all preserving our national resources for habitat protection and future generations. Brower is the greatest environmental leader of all time.

The Sierra Club's campaign to save Dinosaur was brilliant. They presented the photos of Echo Park at garden clubs all over America. The gardeners then picked up their pens and proceeded to write a HUGE number of letters to Congress advocating for protecting it. The campaign went from no visibility in Washington to winning the argument.

[haydukelives]

8. and wrote off

Glen Canyon without having seen it.

[haydukelives]

4. been here a while

joined DU in 04

[haydukelives]

17. how's the popcorn

don't mind me, just padding my post count.

[Viking12]

5. What a load of unsubstantiated crap.

If a student turned that paper into me, it would earn a 'D' at best.

[Kolesar]

7. Such are my thoughts — you wouldn’t call them thoughts would you?

... — such are my feelings, a mixture of revulsion and delight, as we float away on the river, leaving behind for a while all that we most heartily and joyfully detest. That’s what the first taste of the wild does to a man, after having been penned up for too long in the city. No wonder the Authorities are so anxious to smother the wilderness under asphalt and reservoirs. They know what they are doing. Play safe. Ski only in a clockwise direction. Let’s all have fun together.”
— Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, 1968

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It's a "waterskiers advocacy" website

[haydukelives]

9. Its a wakeboard site

Wakepowell, get it. Doesn't pretend to be anything else

[haydukelives]

16. warerskiers

go counterclockwise at most if not all lakes.

[haydukelives]

10. I dont think so

please elaborate.
Pretty tough standards for a first year English paper.

[haydukelives]

11. Oh, for the record

Paper got an A+. Top paper in class
Stupid public education system.

[Viking12]

13. Where I teach, we actually have academic standards.

We require logic and accuracy, for example. The paper cites a 1961 reprint of Powell's book as refutation of contemporary scientific claims. huh? Quite obvious to anyone that has ever read Encounters with an Archdruid, the paper fundamentally misappropriates material, paraphrasing way out of context, misrepresenting original meaning (oh, and BTW, that source is left out of the bibliography) I could go on and on and on but I have my own student's papers to grade.

[haydukelives]

14. thanks

But if you have work to do, you shouldn't be on DU.

[hunter]

12. I'd tear down all the dams on the Colorado River.

You'll be glad to know my plan to become All Powerful and Exalted Emperor of the Planet Earth has not been successful...



...yet.

Bwahahahahaha!

[haydukelives]

15. Me too

can I be your right hand man.
If and when Glen Canyon dam goes down, up, or whatever, I just hope the cameras are rolling.