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| The Navajo Generating Station was a major contributor to haze in the Grand Canyon |
I am in the EEOP Summer Scholars program. For one week we were investigating a major issue in the Grand Canyon which is the low visibility. We had taken three field trips, one to the Cholla Power Plant near Joseph City, Arizona, the Fort Valley Experimental Forest, and the Grand Canyon.
Those trips were to get an on-site experience to talk with real experts, investigate, ask questions, and get real information. What we needed to do was to gather information, write it down or take notes, and publish it.
Most of my information was found on the Internet and asking questions to real officials and I like the Grand Canyon so much because I grew up 40 miles away and I am very close to it. I do not want to see it disappear behind something that could have been prevented and still can. I have been there many times and all of those times I have never noticed the haze until I was taught about it and looked for it and now the number of haze free days is decreasing every year and the pollutants will reach the level where it will be harmful to humans, animals, and the forest. this is why we must solve this major problem and to do it we need to work together.
