The Klamath is
dammed. The Sacramento is dammed. The Yuba and Tuolumne are dammed.
The San Joaquin is dammed. The Columbia is dammed and the Snake is
dammed. The Missouri and the Ohio and the mighty Mississippi are
dammed. The Hudson is dammed, the Saint Lawrence is dammed. The Rio
Grande is dammed.
Lassen is dammed and
Shasta is dammed. Even Rainier is dammed. Whitney and Denali, dammed.
Clouds Rest and Half Dome and El Capitan are dammed. The Sierra
Nevada, the Cascades, the Rockies Canadian and American, all dammed.
The continental divide is dammed, Muir Pass is dammed. Donner Pass
was dammed from the beginning. Siskiyou summit is dammed, the highway
there is dammed, the trails are dammed, the PCT is dammed, 2600
miles, dammed.
San Francisco Bay,
Monterey Bay, Suisun Bay, they too are dammed. The headlands of Big
Sur are dammed. The shore is dammed, the granite stones are dammed,
the cypress trees of Point Lobos are dammed. The great waves sweeping
in from the west, spume at their heads, shadows of seals and kelp
backlit in the emerald water, they are dammed.
