Originally posted by deadwolfbones 
First of all, thanks.
Living out here, the lake is basically the only game in town for swimming/boating, and I really appreciate that, coming as I do from Florida. In fact, my trip out there this weekend was the first time I've been swimming in more than two years. It's really a beautiful lake, and a great place to spend the day.
Ghost Ranch is of course beautiful as well, and I'm sure the land was gorgeous before it was flooded. Overall, in this case I think the flooding has done more good than harm. But that's just one uninformed guy's subjective opinion.
Well, like I said, the pictures go a long way to bringing me around to your view of things. I can't deny the recreational value once the water is there, but what of what is lost?
Some history.
Part of my wife's family land in SW Colorado near the Black Canyon of the Gunnison was taken by the government and flooded in the 60's to make Blue Mesa Reservoir. A great deal of railroad history is under water forever. I know a number of people who have had the same done to them in Missouri.
In the 80's I was a "Mobster" and activist who helped stop an entirely unnecessary dam on the Meramec River in Missouri - would have taken 425 small family farms with scant compensation and destroyed one of the few remaining native Brown Trout populations in the country, as well as numerous natural landforms unique to Missouri's Karst limestone bedrock.
There's something about moving water that makes the shoreline real estate people drool.
And I'm a Republican! I should be FOR all this - but conservative means
conserve.
OK. Step AWAY from the soapbox. Nice pictures and I'm happy you had a nice weekend!!
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