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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…JIm Stiles Where to Frack…My Favorite Tourists: Charles Pipes KingWorld & Albert Christensen…? SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles The President of Uruguay…A Role Model for America? Digging Out from Global Warming The WILDER WEST… the Art & Wit of DAVE WILDER “West of the Tropics’ PLUS commentary SOLITUDE LOST…OR JUST DISCARDED? How Silence…
In February, despite citizens’ objections and a petition that contained 75,000 signatures, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved the lease of 26 parcels of public land for possible oil…
The United States really isn’t doing well these days. You may not know it, listening to American news. You’ll still hear from the mouthpieces of every public personality that America…
When I was a seasonal ranger, I lived at the Devils Garden Campground at Arches National Park for a full decade. Some people thought I’d never leave; even I wondered…
Little did I know, as I wrote my article in January about the desire for snow, that winter hadn’t truly passed us over this year. It was just delayed.…
NOTE: In the early years of The Zephyr, Moab was transforming itself, though not everyone was sure just who the ‘transformers’ were. We set out to ask the citizens of…
2013 PROLOGUE: As Moab began to ‘take off’ in the late 80s, we all wondered who would try to bring some order out of the brewing chaos. Via a grant…
Kevin Anderson, a climate scientist at the University of Manchester in the U.K., is one of those humans who somehow never learned to be a proper, timid professional, and is…
Washington, D.C. March 16, 1968 I am today announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the United States. I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man…
Funny how we humans all crave paradise. I’m not talking about any hypothetical paradise beyond the grave either, that always just sounded like a bore to me. No, I’m talking…
Georgie Clark is single-minded. “The Colorado River is my life, always has been,” she says in a high, squeaky twang. “The Grand Canyon is my home. Forty-eight years now.” Her…
How Silence & Tranquility Became Antiquated Notions in the Brave New West… I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on…
The numbers are in. Moab is growing. Judging by the sound of circular saws and hammers echoing around town these days commercial and residential construction projects valued at over…
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… Rock Springs,…
A new and controversial frontier in mining is opening up as a British firm joins a growing rush to exploit minerals in the depths of the oceans…UK Seabed Resources is…
Just as the Boom was Beginning… ABOVE: This is an image of the southeastern part of Moab. The curving highway that crosses the top part of the photo…
NOTE: The Zephyr recently received a DVD of a 1949 documentary film by Ray Garner. The film is silent; Mr. Garner exhibited this film to audiences around the country and…
RENO, NEVADA THEN (1944) & NOW (via Google Maps) HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American…
This article was originally published in 2004… When Aldo Leopold saw fierce green fire in the eyes of the dying wolf his life was changing; years of living in…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…JIm Stiles ‘OLD MOAB’ vs ‘NEW MOAB— Ed Abbey, Chilled Red Wine & When to Clap at the Symphony. SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles “Memories of Snow’ The…
‘Old Moab’ vs. ‘New Moab’ Ed Abbey, Chilled Red Wine & When to Clap at the Symphony. In 1952, when Charlie Steen discovered uranium and turned Moab from a sleepy…
Lately, I’m preoccupied with the thought of snow. It has been near sixty degrees the past few days here in Kansas, and what little snow we accumulated in a fleeting…
“It ain’t wilderness unless there’s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you.” – Doug Peacock At 9:30 p.m. on June 12, 2000, our Alaska Airlines jet…
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A 1982 Interview with Ed Abbey…by Eric Temple
AN INTERVIEW WITH EDWARD ABBEY… What follows is the transcript of an interview conducted by Eric Temple with Ed Abbey in December 1982. The interview took place in the cabin…
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