An excerpt:
In the very first Zephyr, I wrote a long article about a road building proposal that would be debated for years. In late 1989, the lame duck Grand County Commissioners created a self-funded, autonomous special service road district, with the specific goal of building a multi-million dollar, modern, paved highway that would connect Grand County and Moab in the south with Uintah County and Vernal to the north. They called it the ‘Book Cliffs Highway.’ Its purpose was to provide better access for oil and gas development, but the highway was also pitched as a tourist road that would increase recreational traffic and shorten the travel distances.
Elsewhere in this issue you can read a narrative of the battle to stop the road. Opposition was light in the beginning, but by 1992, those of us who opposed the road began to gain some traction. Eventually, a change of government in Grand County and a negative environmental impact statement by the BLM killed the idea. We thought it was dead for good.
To read more of Jim’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2014/04/01/take-it-or-leave-it-the-book-cliffs-zombie-highway-a-bad-idea-rises-from-the-dead-by-jim-stiles/
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‘This extraordinary finding either indicates an as yet unknown or unusual astronomical phenomenon, or it could indicate that this is a vast alien communication network, and the universe is teeming with intelligent life forms,’ says Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual.
Click the photo to read the full article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2630615/Are-mystery-radio-bursts-messages-ALIENS-Freak-frequency-outside-Milky-Way-baffles-astronomers.html
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An excerpt:
“It’s quite a coup, really, that I ended up Co-Publisher of a paper born in Moab, Utah and primarily concerned with the history and the environmentalist movement of the Desert Southwest. You, dear reader, could quite understandably believe that I have no right to have taken this role, running the paper alongside Jim, with so few relevant qualifications. I wouldn’t argue with you. So perhaps the only subject for me to speak on authoritatively, on this 25th anniversary, is the subject I know best—my husband, Jim, and the reasons why I jumped ship on my old life in order to join with him and his paper.”
To read more of Tonya’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2014/04/01/sowing-clover-what-you-dont-know-about-mr-zephyr-by-tonya-stiles/
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“For a guy who lived in the middle of nowhere, Cecil Garland had a way of being in the thick of things.
The rancher from outside of the west-desert hamlet of Callao was a leader in the 1979-1981 fight against the U.S. Air Force proposal to build the MX Missile System in the Great Basin valleys of eastern Nevada and western Utah. He also proved an intractable foe of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s efforts to take groundwater from beneath northeastern Nevada valleys and pipe it to Las Vegas.
Garland died Sunday at age 88 after a short bout with pneumonia.”
To read more of the article, click the image below:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57948842-78/garland-fight-cecil-com.html.csp
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