This stream will not be dammed.

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Just about every river that can be effectively dammed, has been.

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That the park would be closed, the waterfall dammed to increase flows and so on.

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It will be hard, James, but you come from sturdy, peasant stock, men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads, and, in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity.

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