{"id":9080,"date":"2013-06-07T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9080"},"modified":"2013-06-07T06:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:01:19","slug":"junejuly-2013-take-it-or-leave-it-15-years-laterthoughts-on-the-wilderness-mentoring-conference-of-1998by-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/junejuly-2013-take-it-or-leave-it-15-years-laterthoughts-on-the-wilderness-mentoring-conference-of-1998by-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(June\/July 2013) Take it or Leave it: 15 YEARS LATER\u2026THOUGHTS ON \u2018THE WILDERNESS MENTORING CONFERENCE OF 1998\u2019\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

“But in the late \u201890s, something was different and I could never pinpoint the cause\u2014if there was one.\u00a0 But from where I stood, the \u201ccrusade\u201d to save wilderness had gradually become a sales pitch. In Utah, the economic component of wilderness became a prominent, if not the defining reason for passing a wilderness bill. Suddenly, the idea of wilderness and the legislative process to create wilderness diverged. I found myself on the outside, looking into a \u201cmovement\u201d that I no longer recognized.\u00a0 It was never the same for me again and I couldn\u2019t\u00a0 understand where they (or I) had gone astray.
\nJump ahead 15 years and the Miracle of the World Wide Web.”<\/p>\n

To read more of Jim’s story, click the image below:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Also, check out the companion to this piece, with excerpts from the Wilderness Mentoring Conference here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/06\/02\/when-everything-changed-the-wilderness-mentoring-conference-1998\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“But in the late \u201890s, something was different and I could never pinpoint the cause\u2014if there was one.\u00a0 But from where I stood, the \u201ccrusade\u201d to save wilderness had gradually become a sales pitch. In Utah, the economic component of wilderness became a prominent, if not the defining reason for passing a wilderness bill. Suddenly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9080"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9157,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080\/revisions\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}