Conservationists and public outcry helped defeat the proposed Echo Park Dam in the mid-1950s, which would have buried these canyons under hundreds of feet of water.
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The first white men to visit the area were fur trappers in 1825,
but this was named Echo Rock by John Wesley Powell on his 1869
expedition of the Green River. Conservationists and public outcry helped defeat the proposed Echo Park Dam in the mid-1950s, which would have buried these canyons under hundreds of feet of water. |
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