Is Solar Power the New Glen Canyon?
By John R. Moody and Steve Tabor Way, way back in 1992 Desert Survivors developed a general policy statement to focus and guide its efforts to protect our desert lands. We committed ourselves to the preservation of those lands, their habitats, wildlife, resources etc. We went on to articulate things that we specifically supported, and specific things or activities that we opposed. Our criteria for opposition was that activities such as mining, grazing, expanded vehicle access, suburbanization, power corridors, and military expansion were inherently harmful to the desert landscape and to the life it held. But, we also recognized that we could not stop or even anticipate the many human activities that might harm the desert. Thus, where we could not prevent harm to the desert we determined to support those policies that would at least reduce adverse impacts. So we took our stand, and committed ourselves to protect the desert from the abuses of our own society. In the intervening years we
