David Brower of the Sierra Club | Glen Canyon Reel 2 (Part 2 of 2)

David Brower embarked on an expedition to document and discover Glen Canyon, a place few people knew. David pushed to stop the flooding of Glen Canyon in 1963 but was too late to prevent the Bureau of Reclamation from closing the gates of Glen Canyon Dam.
The footage David captured on reel 2 of 2 shows the ecosystem of Glen Canyon. He chooses to document the flora and fauna that would be submerged under 100s of feet of water from the reservoir. This reel also includes Rainbow Bridge, Petroglyphs and the side canyons of Glen.
Brower successfully led the fight to keep a dam from being built that would have flooded Dinosaur National Monument on the Upper Colorado River. In the battle to preserve that place and our parks system as a whole, however, it was agreed that a dam and reservoir would be built in lesser known and recognized Glen Canyon.
After this compromise had been agreed upon, Mr. Brower went to see Glen Canyon. He had heard from those familiar with the area that Glen Canyon was a treasure worth preserving for future generations; he realized once he arrived that this was not a place for a reservoir. David Brower declared that flooding Glen Canyon under the depths of a stagnant reservoir would come to be America's most regretted environmental mistake.
He worked hard to stop Glen Canyon Dam from being completed and was only a few feet from the desk of decision makers the day the gates on the dam were closed, making one last attempt to keep the waters of the Colorado River from flooding the spectacular Glen Canyon.