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Job Announcement - GCI seeks an Administrative Assistant for our office located in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Now available - stunning new film inspired by the book Resurrection: Glen Canyon and a New Vision for the American West.
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Don't miss the original book Resurrection: Glen Canyon and a New Vision for the American West.
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Watch GCI's groundbreaking December 2008 conference Adjusting to Less Water: Climate Change and the Colorado River.
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Glen Canyon In The News!

August 26th, 2009
Water Use Saga: The Return of Glen Canyon
After a beautiful landscape reemerged, a new plan for Lake Powell water usage has taken shape.

July 20th, 2009
Western Reservoirs Could Be Dry By 2050
There's a one-in-two chance that the water reservoirs of the Colorado River will dry up by 2050 if water management practices remain unchanged in our warming world, a new study finds.

July 20th, 2009
Colorado River Reservoirs Could Be Depleted By 2057
Several factors are conspiring to deplete the Colorado River water reservoirs that supply 30 million people in the western United States with drinking and irrigation water.

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Learn about Glen Canyon before Lake Powell. Visit this inspiring website to see spectacular photos of Glen Canyon in the early 1960s before it was flooded, taken by renowned photographer and conservationist, Phil Pennington.

Cathedral in the Desert, 2005

"Glen Canyon, once the most serenely beautiful of all the canyons of the Colorado River."
-Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water