An excerpt:
Recently, the Utah Wildlife Board proposed a hunting season for crows. While they are not particularly tasty and are known for their intelligence, crows have often been blamed by farmers for agricultural losses via crop damage—crows have to eat, after all—and so, next September, crows may be fair game for anyone itchy to shoot something.
Critics argue that the crows do not constitute a significant threat to agriculture and, in Utah, are not as prolific as they are back east. And some are concerned that most people can’t differentiate between crows and their larger cousins, the raven. It worries me too.
Click the image to read more of Jim’s story:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2014/06/02/take-it-or-leave-it-in-defense-of-ravens-and-crows-by-jim-stiles/
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Dear Readers…
We don’t ask for your help often—only three times a year now—but we need to know The Zephyr still has your support and that you want us to continue. We recently marked our 25th anniversary and we’d like to keep the Zephyr flame alive for as long as you want us to.
The Zephyr is supported mainly by the small individual contributions of our readers. YOU and a relative handful of loyal advertisers keep this publication alive.
We hope that as we move into the second quarter century of existence, you will continue to support us.
We have endured all these years on a shoe-string budget, and have tried to be honest and candid, wherever the road took us. We have often paid a price for that candor, but we have no regrets. We think that is what true journalism is all about.
So PLEASE…We cannot survive without you…your Backbone contributions make a great difference. With your help, who knows…we might even make it to 50.
Thanks,
Jim & Tonya
Here are some of the ways you can support The Zephyr…at whatever level works for you:
THE BACKBONE…..
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New & Renewing Backbone Members at the $100 level (or higher) receive a signed copy of Stiles’ “Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed.”
If you already have the book, let us know and we can send you a DVD of the documentary film, also called ‘Brave New West,’ about The Zephyr. It aired on public television and was produced by ‘High Plains Films’ in Montana.
(And the cartoon of course…for the strong & the brave)
We are also looking for A FEW GOOD ADVERTISERS! with new very low rates. As low as $150 a YEAR.
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