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The Kanab Creek diversion proposal would, in effect, take away from the Grand Canyon the very agent that created it; the remaining trickle would be no comparison to the great force that carved the canyon. Without the fullest possible flow of the river, the significance and completeness of the park would be greatly altered, and the public conservation purpose defeated in that the great spectacle of the Grand Canyon, as set aside by the Congress in the national park, to be preserved in its natural state for this and succeeding generations, would be seriously impaired. In his book, Grand Canyon Today and All Its Yesterdays, Joseph Wood Krutch makes this appraisal of Grand Canyon National Park: These are things which other nations can never recover. Should we lose them, we could not recover them either. The generation now living may very well be that which will make the irrevocable decision whether or not America will continue to be for centuries to come the one great nation which had the foresight to preserve an important part of its heritage. If we do not preserve it, then we shall have diminished by just that much the unique privilege of being an American. 7Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 15,976,448 byte