Michael Collier, a river-runner, geologist, pilot and
photographer who sometimes masquerades as a physician, has been
using his “bushy sort of airplane” to take river pictures from the
air since 1975. Slides from Collier’s recent book Water, Earth and
Sky: the Colorado River Basin, co-authored with Dave Wegner of the
Glen Canyon Institute, will be presented as part of the Institute’s
5th annual fall conference, Oct. 11-12, at the University of Utah.
The Institute wants to drain Lake Powell and restore the submerged
Glen Canyon. Wegner hopes this year’s conference will spark
conversation about the Colorado River Basin at large. “We’re
bringing in diverse information sources like writers, artists and
other environmental groups to expand upon the scientific
information we’ve developed,” he says. For more information,
contact the Institute at 520/556-9311 or e-mail
info@glencanyon.org.
* Ali
Macalady
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Glen Canyon unplugged.
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