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AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2011 <THE ZEPHYR> DOG of the MONTH: Meet the ‘White Dog’ of Bueyeros WHAT WE FOUND, SEARCHING for ‘THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE’ –Tonya Morton GENE SCHAFER (1931-2011) End of an Era for Monticello, Utah –Jim Stiles INSTANT MOAB: “Then & Now’…what hasn’t changed –Terry Knouff COPENHAGEN & TERMINAL PRAGMATISM: Dimensions of a...
TAKE IT or LEAVE IT Jim Stiles HARD TIMES? A STORY OF TWO PRAIRIE GRAVES One frenzied afternoon in Moab, more than 20 years ago, the crush of tourists, the asphalt-enhanced desert heat, and the already disturbing first hints of a “New West” future driven by an ‘amenities economy” got the...
Dog of the Month: The White Dog of Bueyeros, New Mexico We were wandering in that hot, dry country east of the Rockies in northeast New Mexico, where the land can’t quite decide if it wants to be desert or prairie. It felt like a bit of both, Out on that...
What We Found, Searching for ‘The Way Life Should Be’ By Tonya Morton This was the week of the County Fair—big news in our tiny town of under a thousand people. People arrived at the high school, braving heat of over a hundred degrees, to compare bushels of wheat, cut flowers, artwork and...
I n s t a n t M o a b…. T e r r y k n o u f f Then And Now… I know, “Then And Now” , It’s not an original idea of mine. But I love how photography can enhance our “temporal perspective” And Moab has seen a lot...
Gene Schafer: 1931-2011 End of an Era for Monticello, Utah Gene Schafer was not like anybody else you ever met; he contained multitudes. He was born in Texas in 1931, but soon moved to southern Utah when his dad saw an ad for free homestead land near Monticello. He knew practically nothing but hard...
Copenhagen and Terminal Pragmatism: Dimensions of a Four Star FUBAR By Scott Thompson “The Copenhagen Conference in December, 2009, was the last hope for humanity to pull back from the abyss.” – Clive Hamilton On a sunny afternoon on May 7, 2010, I nearly got myself killed. I was driving east on a near-empty...
The WILDER WEST… the Art & Wit of DAVE WILDER Boot Shopping My old hiking boots were shot, that’s what started the trouble. I needed a new pair and, since I was in the neighborhood, decided to give this new mountaineering shop in Sedona a try. There was a dazzling array on the wall...
Drought, Climate Change & Sick Forests Fuel Super Fires The Summer of 2011 in the American Southwest…..Surrealistic & Devastating By Kathleene Parker EDITOR’S NOTE: Kathleene Parker’s story reflects burn damage as of July 8. Subsequent fire damage will no doubt boost the amount of acreage affected. This summer has been surrealistic and traumatic...
The Speech President Obama Should Give… (but never will…..#1) —channeled by Jim Stiles–- Good evening, It’s been more than two years since that remarkable frosty evening in November 2008 when you bestowed upon me the great honor and responsibility of becoming the 44th President of the United States. Throughout the weeks and...
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