This short trailer provides a preview of this 30-minute film. Visit www.jameskay.com to order the full-length version on DVD. Based on the book of the same name, Resurrection – Glen Canyon and a New Vision for the American West, this powerful new film showcases James Kay’s photographs of the once lost; now reemerging canyons of Glen Canyon as the waters of Lake Powell have receded due to recent drought. Combined with historical video footage of Ed Abbey and David Brower in Glen Canyon before it was drowned in 1963 after the construction of Glen Canyon Dam, this beautiful film contains haunting images of these remarkable canyons while offering a hopeful message for the future of the West and its rivers.
I would also add tad nichols’ images of a lost world… That book blows? my mind away every time I see it!
AD-You have any idea what Glen Cyn was like before it was flooded? What FACTS is your opinion LP “has actually been made beter” based upon? I recommend a couple of things. 1-Travel there. Drive down Hole in the Rock Road and hike all of the drainages? that flow into the Escalante River and Lake Powell. I guaratee your amazement. See what ALL of Glen Canyon looked like before it was detroyed. 2-Read “Dead Pool” by James Lawrence Powell. Read John Wesley Powell’s books. Then tell me its better now.
In responding to azusadavid’s comment; it is a simple fact that? enough water to supply the city of Los Angeles for one year is lost from Lake Powell every year due to evaporation and seepage. The misconception that Lake Powell “saves” water is pure fantasy. Ask any Western water manager. If Lake Powell were not there, more water would flow downstream to the people and cities that actually need it. It is the Western water managers who will decide the fate of Lake Powell; not the fanatics.
Please don’t listen to this one sided argument. This person, and others like him, have one idea in mind. To dismantle the dam and drain lake Powell. Their only? true reason to do this is to satisfy their own self righteous indignation run a muck. Lake Powell is an incredibly beautiful place that has actually been made better with the help of man. Please see it for yourself and don’t listen to fanatics, on either side of this issue. By the way, thank god the dam was there during the drought years.