Local tribes regard the Confluence, where the Little Colorado’s blue waters merge with the Colorado, as sacred. Developers hope to build a tramway here to carry up to 10,000 tourists a day to a riverside retail and food complex. (Photo Pete McBride, courtesy National Geographic.)
“The canyon provokes two major reactions: the urge to protect it, and the temptation to make a pile of money from it.”
That quote appears in National Geographic’s September issue, as the magazine explores more than a century of battles over protecting and exploiting one of the world’s great wonders — including the preservation effort of Save the Confluence.
You can get a preview of the article here: http://on.natgeo.com/2bhII0f
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