If you’re going to take big bucks from the billionaires, HERE’S the way to do it…(and guess what…the ‘rich weasel’ list doesn’t begin and end with the Koch Boys.)
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…with Rangers Meyer, Capps & Salamacha.
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The highway from Monticello, Utah to Blanding used to wind precariously into Recapture Wash. A lumber mill operated there for decades but had gone silent by the late 70s. In the early 1980s, a dam/reservoir was proposed for Recapture Wash and the road was re-aligned and widened to pass over the dam itself, a mile downstream from its original location. The road/reservoir was completed in the mid-80s and the waters rose over the old road.
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An excerpt:
Wickware: I think the first 25 years have definitely been on the side of protection; while that is good, it has some ramifications that I think are bad. To err on the side of protection, I think we have failed to provide services for visitors. I don’t think the park was set aside to protect and not accommodate reasonable numbers of visitors, with the visitation to Canyonlands to date. I don’t think that the timidity we’ve had, not just the National Park Service, but the State and community and all interested groups have done justice to the visitor. I think the first 25 years have been marked by an overemphasis on not doing things in the park the way they should be done in a park as far as development’s concerned
To read more of the Interview with Mr. Wickware, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2014/10/01/from-the-zephyr-archives-an-interview-with-harvey-wickware-canyonlands-park-superintendent-in-1989-by-jim-stiles/
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An excerpt:
October, 1949
Weather: We have enjoyed warm sunny days and cool nights until winter dropped suddenly out of the sky on October 17 in the form of cold rain and snow which raised the Colorado River two feet at the Moab Bridge. Court House Wash ran for three days making it necessary to close the entrance road. One visitor who didn’t believe in signs sank deep in the quick sand and abandoned his car when the water started running in the window.
Special Visitors: Mr. John Ford, motion picture director for Argosy Productions, arrived in Moab October 4 to look over a location for the making of a picture in this area. He and his business manager, Mr. Farrell, spent three days around Moab and were shown through the monument. They said that their biggest problem would be making a choice of scenery and not finding it. On or two shots will be made in the monument.
Click the image below to read more about Bates Wilson:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2014/10/01/bates-wilson-the-father-of-canyonlands-np-in-his-own-words/
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Gail and I found the hamlet of Ruth, Nevada, on U.S. 50, 82 miles west of the Utah border. This tiny village is dwarfed by the massive outer shoulders of the Robinson open pit copper mine, just as mining towns everywhere seem to exist within the maw of the mines they serve. Yet Ruth also lies on the visible edge of 250 miles of the widest open of our wide open desert landscapes, heading crazily west through remotest central Nevada.
Click the image below to read more of Scott’s article:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2014/10/01/on-the-visible-edge-at-an-open-pit-copper-mine-by-scott-thompson/
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We didn’t enter this world voluntarily; we each entered it guiltlessly alone. New and fresh beginnings now await us in our new millennium, and a brief historical reflection might be in order before we begin that journey. And so I pause to celebrate and share my own rustic beginnings with you knowing that we each have a most unique connection to our blessed earth, ourselves, our family, and our community.
My reflection begins with Thomas Sleight, a low-land swamp farmer from Lincolnshire, England, who converted to the Mormon Church and sailed to the states in 1854. He settled Genoa on the old Mormon Trail in Nebraska in 1857 until burned out by the Sioux; traveled by wagon train to Utah in 1860; helped colonize Cache Valley; and in 1863, after the Bear River Massacre had lessened the Indian threat, he uprooted again at the direction of Brigham Young, to help settle Bear Lake Valley.
Click the image below to read more of Ken’s story:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2014/10/01/ken-sleight-remembers-part-1-the-adventure-of-new-beginnings-1930s/
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