August/September 2011

The August/September 2011 Issue of the Zephyr!

July 28, 2011
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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...

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Take it or Leave it…by Jim Stiles

July 28, 2011
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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...

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Dog of the Month

July 28, 2011
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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...

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What We Found, Searching for ‘The Way Life Should Be’…by Tonya Morton

July 28, 2011
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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...

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Instant Moab…by Terry Knouff

July 28, 2011
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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...

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Gene Schafer: 1931-2011…by Jim Stiles

July 28, 2011
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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...

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Copenhagen and Terminal Pragmatism: Dimensions of a Four Star FUBAR …by Scott Thompson

July 28, 2011
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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...

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THE WILDER WEST…by Dave Wilder

July 28, 2011
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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...

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Drought, Climate Change & Sick Forests Fuel Super Fires …by Kathleene Parker

July 28, 2011
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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...

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The Speech President Obama Should Give…(but never will) #1

July 28, 2011
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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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‘THE VORTEX of CIVILITY’ (The 4-Way Stop) —Stiles

(From the 2003 archives) With most of the peoples of the world angry at each other, and as we sit on the brink of yet another war, is it any wonder that a sense of hopelessness and despair permeates the battered spirit of any human who takes the time to actually think about our dilemma? [...]

LOST: A History of Lost Hikers at Arches NP & the Reluctant Rangers Who Found Them —Stiles (from the archives)

Arches National Park is often called a frontcountry park, because many of its most celebrated natural features are within sight of the paved park road. The Arches highway winds its way from Moab Canyon and US 191 to its terminus at the Devils Garden. As a seasonal ranger, it was always my pleasure to tell [...]

(AP) MORE DEAD GOLDEN EAGLES at CALIFORNIA WIND FARM

CLICK THE IMAGE TO READ THE STORY IN FULL (02-16) 05:59 PST MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) – Two more dead golden eagles have been found dead at a California wind farm, bringing the eagle death count to eight at the Tehachapi Mountains site. Federal wildlife officials are investigating the golden eagle deaths at the Department of [...]

‘I’VE HEARD ABOUT YOU, SHANE #2′— “One-Eyed Jacks” with Marlon Brando (1961)

I was raised on matinees, on Saturday afternoons. Lookin’ up at Hoppy, Gene and Roy…oh boy! And I was raised believin’, the best a man can do Is a be rootin’-tootin’, straight shootin’ cowboy buckaroo —–Mason Williams & the Sons of the Pioneers That’s how it was for me. As a little kid, I grew [...]

‘WESTWARD HO, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS’ 1848-1890 —Jim Stiles

HOW CHRISTIANITY ‘WON THE WEST’ & DESTROYED A CULTURE  (from the 2006 Zephyr archives) When the world watched in collective horror on September 11, 2001, as jet liners piloted by Islamic terrorists slammed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, viewers could scarcely comprehend the human disaster unfolding ‘live’ before them. In [...]

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