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Down on that bench, you can see mining roads, made by uranium trucks and bulldozers laying seismic lines before the National Park was established in 1964. The desert is not armor-coated, and wounds may take decades to heal.
Out past that point on the right is where the Colorado and Green Rivers converge. You can't see it from here. The Green's headwaters are in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. It has cut so deep here that it is not visible from this point. But it's there, trust me.