In my casual hobby to research and find different parks, I came upon a reality of which is a big factor in our world. Take a look at any big lake in the country on a map, not Great Lakes sized, but something of considerable volume. zoom in on it. Do you notice something about them? As I looked up Cuyahoga River Valley National Park, I zoomed out and saw a lake. It looked different to me. As I zoomed in, I noticed it was not naturally made. With new eyes, I see now through mans overcoming pride of accomplishment. These were once roaring rapids, spawning new life to plants and animals, fish and beaver, bear and bobcat, possible species that we have never seen before. Now, they are tamed, still, caged. The mountains act like a bowl, imprisoning the river and as I look at the lake from a satellite view, I now see them as watery scars, branching out, filling every crevice, funneling to one point. Not all dams are bad, but far too many have been made to cash in on a belief that water is a renewable resource. While water replenishes itself, these lakes were made by engineers and architects, people who said here is where we have the greatest potential for rain and snow melt to fill in a lake each year but there is a problem. If it was to fill up, nature would have made it a lake. The more I studied the lakes, the more dams I saw. They are everywhere. They are even resting on National Park borders. I even found that companies were planning to dam the Grand Canyon! The magnitude of which just boggles my mind and shows the true intention of the creators of these dams. When a dam is made, where do the fish go to spawn their offspring? Where do the rivers get replenished to keep flowing? Where do the river valleys go after the rivers dry up? Where does the rich soil go when we have no river valleys to keep moist? We have silently, slowly created our own destruction as we keep caging the wild rivers, but all is not lost. There is an organization whose sole mission is to break these dams and set the rivers free once more. The harsh reality is man is not meant to live beyond his means, and when we try to control nature and tame her land for our own benefit, it will only end in our failure, causing the droughts and floods that continue to ravage the continent as they so have. When you learn that nature has a purpose for everything and you live with nature, no consequence will come from her, only those who work against her.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 16:11:13 +0000
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