Bluebird Dam 1902-1990
Environment • Documentary, Educational, 11-Nov-1991
Rocky Mountain National Park has had many man made structures come and go throughout its history. The most notorious and perhaps infamous were several dams owned by Front Range water interests. No longer practical and structurally unsafe, dams like Bluebird needed to be meticulously disassembled in the early 1990’s. Our friend and now Associate Producer at the Rocky Mountain Channel, John Goerner produced this excellent video in 1990.
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