Does It All Make Sense?

                 GCNP Boundary: Differing visions, evolving story.

                        A schematic attempt to pull it all together

I. Fixation on the Powell-Harrison Big Hole, from the 1880's 

    A. Vision:  "The Most Spectacular … ", to 1919

1. Right Religion, Wrong  Church, 1882-93

2. Recognition, 1890's

3. T.R., almost a hero, 1902-8

4. The Park, To Everybody's Profit, 1910's

    B. Filling Out, the 1920's

    C. To Cut or not, 1940's

II. Westward Investigations, from the 1920's  

    A. Toroweap's Big Drop; Lava Flows. Late 1920's - 1940

    B.  Part of Grand Canyon: Very Worthy; BUT.  Mid-30's - 1953 

or, Let's Control Lake Mead & Bridge

III. NPS' Fragmented Vision

    A. Tidying Up, 1945-64

    B. Lake Mead, N.R.A., 1950's-64

    C. A Collection of Problems, 1965-74

IV.  New Vision: The Entire Grand Canyon

    A. Not So New; ASHPS, 1910

    B. Lee's Ferry to the Grand Wash Cliffs, Sierra Club, 1963

    or, Lessons of the 1950's

    C. Back to 1910, the Bills of 1966

    D. Contra-dams

1. Remembering Marble

         a. Compensation, 1940's

         b. Damsite to National Monument, 1960's-69

2. Locking Out the Monster: 1964-72

    E. Down by the Riverside

1. The Hualapai, 1881, 1949-75 …

2. The Navajo, 1900-34, 1960's

    F. The Havasupai, The Immovable Becomes the Irresistible, 1881-1975

V. Resolution, But Incomplete, 1972-5

    A. Clashing Visions

       1. Anti-dam

2. Old Business

3. GC Entire: Mainstem, Side Canyons, Plateaus

    B. Legislation

1. Attempt at Common Effort

2. Senate; Saving the Kanab

3. House; the Best Result

4. Conference & Signature; Back to Square 14

    C. Results

1. Havasupai Repatriation

2. GCNP enlarged (net)

a. Length: Yes

b. Width: No

c. NPS Vision: Fragments Dissolved; Still Centralized

d. Hunters & Friends

e. Grazing; a Setting Sun

f. Goldwater Animosity

3. Studies

a. GCNM into Park, and Confirmed

b. Northern Lands: Worth Confirmed; Status Unchanged

c. Wilderness: Confirmed, then Insulted

VI. Evolution is a Continuing Process

    A. Kanab Creek 

1. Wilderness

2. Uranium

   B. Grand Canyon - Parashant, National Monument (the fourth)

1. Too Much

2. Coming Home

   C. Ambiguities, Misunderstandings, Fixes, & Errors;

No Smoke-Filled Room; Just Expertise, Please

   D. The Vision Renewing