Glen Canyon Dam time-travel split-screen

Moments from a Land Desk road trip

Glen Canyon Dam in 1983 and 2021.

I write this dispatch from a Page, Arizona, motel, where I’m having a surreal split vision. If I look to my right, out the window, I see the white bathtub ring that has discolored the red rock shores of Lake Powell, an indicator of just how much the reservoir has shrunk, due to global warming, decreased streamflows, eva…