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An interview with Laura Carroll, conducted by Carol Dominy.
>An interview with Laura Carroll, conducted by Carol Dominy. First published in BellaOnline.com. 2010
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ARNOLD: While conservationists lamented the effect of Western water projects on the environment, Dominy remained true to his cause throughout his life, arguing that produce from the dammed and irrigated West enhanced the health of all Americans, and that the resulting reservoirs have drawn more visitors than the national parks combined.
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While conservationists considered that project an environmental disaster, Dominy called it his crowning jewel.
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ARNOLD: Dominy was shaped by his boyhood on a failing farm in Nebraska during the Dust Bowl.
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Floyd Dominy served as commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation under four presidents, and he's best known for the Glen Canyon Dam that plugged the Colorado River.
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In this 1997 PBS documentary based on the book "Cadillac Desert," Dominy was downright evangelical.
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"It was a quintessential Dominy solution," Reisner wrote.
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In the radio series "Moving Waters," Dominy says damming rivers was a way to improve nature and human society all across the West.
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"From top to bottom, through it all, Dominy kept his cigar aglow."
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In 1969 Dominy resigned from his post and retired to a farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, where he raised cattle, made some ponds, and built his last dam.
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