The Grand Canyon: Threatened By Development? (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

One hundred and eleven years ago, Teddy Roosevelt, then President, stood on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon – the marvel that he would make a national monument – and said he had one request:  “Keep this wonder of nature as it is now,” he said. “Leave it as it is.  You cannot improve on it.  The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.”  Now, there is a fight over plans for commercial development right there.  Pro, con, Navajos, Italians.  On the rim and at the bottom of the canyon.  This hour, On Point: the fight over the future of the Grand Canyon. / Tom Ashbrook

Interview:
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/09/15/grand-canyon-development