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	WaterHistory.org
		Dominy rose to Assistant Commissioner from 1957 to 1958, and eventually assumed the Associate Commissioner's job from 1958 to 1959.
		Dominy was born on a farm near Hastings, Nebraska.
		Dominy genuinely believed that the dams and canals built by the bureau had improved the living standards of the region's rural and urban residents.
	www.waterhistory.org /histories/dominy (2271 words)

	Floyd
		Floyd, Iowa Floyd is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 361.
		Floyd, New Mexico Floyd is a village located in 2000 census, the village had a total population of 78.
		Floyd Odlum Floyd Bostwick Odlum born Jackie Cochran.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/floyd.html (678 words)

	Floyd Dominy - g5rr2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Dominy was the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1959 to 1971.
		Dominy is appointed Commissioner of Bureau of Reclamation.
		Floyd Dominy; Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1959 to 1971.
	www.hwr.arizona.edu /hwr203/reading/g5rr2.html (917 words)

	Glen Canyon Institute
		I was sitting in Boyce, Virginia at a restaurant with Floyd Dominy, who was chief of the Bureau of Reclamation during the construction of Glen Canyon Dam.
		As a token of their experiences together, Dominy had promised to give Brower some bookends that were made from core sample drillings of Glen Canyon Dam.
		Dominy about them, he said that he had "changed his mind." He did offer, however, to let me take photos of them for Brower.
	www.glencanyon.org /publications/hiddenpassage/hp3rich.php (737 words)

	Still the Wild River Runs. Excerpt. University of Arizona Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Also on board and seated near Brower was Floyd Dominy, commissioner of the federal Bureau of Reclamation and Brower's chief antagonist over the development of water resources in the American West for the past decade.
		Although these dams had recently been defeated in Congress, Brower and Dominy, riding the river at the behest of author John McPhee, argued their respective positions so stridently it appeared as though the issue was still very much in doubt.
		Dominy, as well as politicians from the state of Arizona and other supporters of western water development, fought environmentalists, whose most public persona was David Brower, in the court of American public opinion.
	www.uapress.arizona.edu /samples/sam1458.htm (3174 words)

	Alterdestiny: Tuesday Forgotten American Blogging: Floyd Dominy
		Floyd Dominy was the head of the United States Bureau of Reclamation from 1958 until 1969.
		Dominy was born in central Nebraska in 1909.
		Dominy was just part of a larger structure of dam building in the United States in the twentieth century.
	alterdestiny.blogspot.com /2007/01/tuesday-forgotten-american-blogging_30.html (1046 words)

	High Country News -- August 28, 2000: Floyd Dominy: An encounter with the West’s undaunted dam-builder
		DOMINY: Yes, because I was born and reared in the Nebraska dryland area.
		DOMINY: Because you have to have that storage to meet the law of the river.
		Ed Marston’s interview with Floyd Dominy was conducted in February 2000, and aired in April, in a two-part series on Glen Canyon Dam.
	www.hcn.org /servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=5980 (2711 words)

	Encounters With The Archdruid: A River
		Dominy graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1932 and, after an unsuccessful stint as a teacher, became a county agricultural agent for the federal government in Wyoming's Gillette county.
		Rewarded with a new job in the Bureau of Reclamation for his efforts, Dominy became the Bureau's director in 1959 and oversaw the construction of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, a dam that would rank as one of David Brower's greatest failures.
		Dominy had popularity as a pseudo-God of Water in the Midwest and Brower was known for his involvement in halting construction of a dam in the Dinosaur National Monument, but no profiles were done to get to why these characters are at polar opposites.
	people.stu.ca /~hunt/mcphee/27730102/finlwebs/GTFFP/druid.htm (1503 words)

	More Than Big Dams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Floyd Dominy believed that he knew what was right - and reportedly had little sympathy for other points of view.
		The author addresses water use issues from the earliest settlement of the West by Europeans to the contemporary problem of increasing salinity in the Colorado River Basin.
		Dominy headed the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1959 to 1969.
	www.edenslostandfound.org /news/cdm.html (752 words)

	High Country News -- Printable -- August 28, 2000: Floyd Dominy: An encounter with the West's undaunted dam-builder
		Floyd Dominy: An encounter with the West's undaunted dam-builder
		As the head of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1959 to 1971, he built Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River and many more of the West's dams, persuading Congress that the region needed to control the flow of rivers to generate electricity, control flooding and irrigate cropland.
		He said: "Dominy drove Reclamation, in John McPhee's phrase, "like a fast bus." Some of his passengers admired and others hated him, but both camps were scared half to death.
	www.hcn.org /servlets/hcn.PrintableArticle?article_id=5980 (2548 words)

	Reclamation Commissioners - Dominy
		Floyd E. Dominy, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, 1959 1969.
		Dominy is easily the most colorful Commissioner in Reclamation's history.
		Born in 1909 and raised on a Nebraska farm, Dominy grew up realizing the importance of irrigation west of the hundredth meridian.
	www.usbr.gov /history/dominy.html (220 words)

	AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. RICH INGEBRETSEN
		Dominy is nuts and bolts, he's a bureaucrat, but he's a funny guy.
		Dominy, do you want me to let the dog in?" and he said, "The dog's not allowed in.
		Dominy said, "Well you're doing it all wrong." We were at dinner now and he takes a napkin and draws the dam the side walls.
	www.canyoncountryzephyr.com /archives/interview-rich-ingebretsen.html (2774 words)

	FLOYD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Search the FLOYD Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the FLOYD Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named FLOYD at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/F/FLOYD.htm (73 words)

	World Watch: LIBERATING THE RIVERS: All the Wild Rivers.(three articles included; environmental effects of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Elsewhere as well, people are having second thoughts about the great 20th-century enthusiasm for controlling arid harnessing rivers.
		In 1966, Floyd Dominy, the commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, gave a speech lambasting environmentalists for their opposition to damming up the Grand Canyon national park.
		If the dams were not built, he told the audience, the Colorado River would be "useless to anyone." Dominy, head of the agency that led the charge in the United States' rush...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:76703231&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (204 words)

	Encounters with the Archdruid
		they are found; Charles Fraser, a resort developer who regards all conservationists as druids ("religious figures who sacrifice people and worship trees"); Floyd Dominy, a builder of gigantic dams, who grew up in dry Western country and deeply believes in the impoundment of water; and David Brower, the most militant conservationist in the world.
		In turn, Park, Fraser, and Dominy encounter Brower, whether in rapids, in forests, on mountain trails, on a raft, in a jeep, or on foot--now reserved, now friendly, now fighting hard across a philosophical divide.
		The importance of this lively book in the unmanageably proliferating literature on ecology is in its confrontation between remarkable men who hold great differences of opinion with integrity on all sides.
	www.johnmcphee.com /encounters.htm (294 words)

	Beyond the Valley of the Dammed (Features) Bruce Barcott
		Dominy, now 89 years old and retired since 1969, was the legendary Bureau of Reclamation commissioner who oversaw construction of the dam in the early 1960s.
		If there is one moment that captures the turning momentum in the dam wars, it might be the dinner Richard Ingebretsen shared with the builder of Glen Canyon Dam, Floyd Dominy himself.
		Ingebretsen first met Dominy when the former commissioner came to Salt Lake City in 1995 to debate David Brower over the issue of breaching Glen Canyon Dam.
	www.utne.com /issues/1999_93/features/31-5.html (893 words)

	Is Everything Natural?
		The sense of "natural" apparently intended by Dominy and Callicott in the above citations is this: "a condition in accordance with natural law." By implication, "unnatural" can only mean "contrary to natural law," which is to say physically impossible.
		It follows, as Dominy suggests, that everything that human beings create and do is "natural," including transuranic elements, DDT and chloro-fluorocarbons, atomic reactors, genetically modified organisms, exponential population growth, etc.
		It is true that Dominy's triumph, Lake Powell of the Colorado, along with genetically modified organisms and atomic power, is "natural/1").
	gadfly.igc.org /gadfly/gadfly/eds/envt/natural.htm (1276 words)

	Outside Online Archives \| Outside Online
		Dominy, now 89 years old and retired since 1969, was the legendary Bureau of Reclamation commissioner who oversaw construction of the dam in the early 1960s.
		If there is one moment that captures the turning momentum in the dam wars, it might be the dinner Richard Ingebretsen shared with the builder of Glen Canyon Dam, Floyd Dominy himself, not long ago.
		Ingebretsen first met Dominy when the former commissioner came to Salt Lake City in 1995 to debate David Brower, now chairman of the Earth Island Institute, over the issue of breaching Glen Canyon Dam.
	www.outsidemag.com /magazine/0299/9902dam.html (7145 words)

	Glen Canyon Dam: Biology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		It was the first river to be taken under complete human control, a feat Floyd Dominy, then Head of the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) is extremely proud of (PBS,1997).
		These changes, while it is arguable that all not are bad, highlight the enormous extent to which we impact our earth and the need for extensive research before and after our actions.
		Before Dominy's time, the turbid, sediment laden water rushed through canyons at speeds between 80,000 to 100,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) during annual floods.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Projects/Dams/gbe01lac.html (299 words)

	Archdruid
		This would obviously provide a good rest, because where Dominy comes from the narrowest ledge is at least three hundred miles wide, and I thought if he was still coming along this one he was probably on his hands and knees.
		Dominy, some yards behind, had an enamelled cup with him, and he dipped it into the stream.
		Of the three encounters, the one between Dominy and Brower has excellent dialogue and a humor and irony unmatched—two heavyweights who almost agree to disagree.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/subcultures/ideas/buzzpounds/pounarch.html (619 words)

	A Colorado River Swan Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The contrast between Babbitt and his predecessors was vividly exhibited when former Commissioner of Reclamation Floyd Dominy (1958-69) debated the subject of draining Lake Powell with Dave Wegner, Science Director of the Glen Canyon Institute.
		Still firm in his beliefs, Dominy now 91 years of age, spoke of the benefits enjoyed by mankind in developing the Colorado River.
		Both Dominy and Babbitt are metaphors of their time.
	www.ci.slc.ut.us /utilities/NewsEvents/news121800.htm (1119 words)

	Lee's Ferry -- Mile 0.0
		Dominy's geologist for Glen Canyon Dam had his office on the balcony overlooking this display (and right next to my office).
		Dominy went on to say that about one million saw Glen Canyon in the year after the reservoir started to fill.
		After Dominy had left Berkeley, I was allowed to put up an argument against the Grand Canyon Dams next to Dominy's display in favor.
	explorepdx.com /glen00.html (438 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Jolly Green Giant (October 22 - October 28, 1998)
		I went through the Grand Canyon before it was messed up, and it was one of the most beautiful places on earth.
		As Interior Department chief under Dwight Eisenhower, Dominy reveled in the dam's construction.
		Dominy replied that it never died in the first place.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/10-22-98/curr4.htm (797 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Encounters with the Archdruid: Books: John McPhee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Whether water is better used in a free flowing or captive condition is the subject of Brower's dispute with Floyd E. Dominy, dam builder.
		Dominy spent years capturing water for ranchers and farmers, later adding cities, casinos and boaters to his clientele.
		I was especially impressed with McPhee's exploration of Floyd Dominy, a builder of monumental dams and the man behind the notorious Glen Danyon dam.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Encounters-Archdruid-John-McPhee/dp/0374148228 (1521 words)

	Glen Canyon
		Floyd Dominy served as Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1959 through 1969.
		It didn't make any difference whether there was a republican or democrat in the White House or in charge of the congress--we got good support for reclamation.
		And the congress was saying to Commissioner Dominy, Floyd we don't need any more dams, we got this wonderful atomic energy.
	www.kued.org /productions/glencanyon/interviews/dominy.html (6098 words)

	RICH INGEBRETSEN
		One of the most surprising friendships he has forged is with Floyd Dominy, retired commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, who oversaw the construction of hundreds of dams, including the one at Glen Canyon, during his decade-long (1959-69) tenure at the helm of BuRec.
		Ingebretsen and Dominy were discussing the pros and cons of dams when Dominy asked Ingebretsen how serious he was about draining the reservoir.
		While not backing away from his opposition to the idea, Dominy explained that David Brower's proposal to core out old concrete-filled water bypass tunnels wouldn't work: 300 feet of solid concrete presented too great an obstacle.
	www.canyoncountryzephyr.com /archives/rich-ingebretsen.html (1650 words)

	CRInfo - Book Summary of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
		A very readable portrait of Floyd Dominy and his influence on both the Bureau of Reclamation and, indirectly, the Corps of Engineers is the sole topic of chapter seven.
		The penultimate chapter begins with an examination of the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer and ends with the assertion, by multiple hydrologists, that dam projects are simply an avoidance of the inevitable.
		The final chapter begins with a lengthy quote from Floyd Dominy and is concluded with an examination of the formation and influence of the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA).
	v4.crinfo.org /booksummary/10487 (638 words)

	Glen Canyon Odyssey
		Floyd Dominy's declaration, "I think it's a shame that we haven't developed every single possible kilowatt from this renewable, non-polluting source of energy," has a kernel of thermodynamic truth.
		Silt behind a dam is one overlooked complication of man's tampering with something only dimly understood, bringing ultimate disaster somewhere in the future.
		And Dominy dropped a precious gem in our lap when he stated, "I had no sympathy for those who felt that nature couldn't be improved upon.
	home.pacifier.com /~ppenn/gco14.html (336 words)

	Jason Hollinger: Book List: History
		One trip includes Floyd Dominy as well, as they all float down the Colorado River before Glen Canyon was drowned.
		(Dominy was largely responsible to the Glen Canyon Dam, and Brower said that allowing the canyon to be flooded was the greatest mistake of his life -- the tension could be cut with a knife!) Well worth reading.
		He has a superb chapter on the fascinating story of how the LA aqueduct was built, and there's another great chapter devoted to Floyd Dominy -- a fascinating intelligent man, may he rot in hell for flooding the Glen Canyon all the same!
	alumnus.caltech.edu /~hollin/books/sections/history.html (380 words)

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