For the past year, this has been the view whenever I have driven to the trailer that serves as our field office. The smelter stacks in Hurley. Tomorrow morning at 10:00, explosions will destroy these two sentinels that have stood for decades, keeping watch over this small community.
I know they are inanimate objects, and I would be thrilled if a similar fate were in store for, say, Glen Canyon Dam, but I can't help but feel a little bit sad.