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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT: UTAH WILDERNESS DEBATE…part 1 “Does Anybody Still Care?” –By Jim Stiles The Utah Wilderness Debate reminds me of the Vietnam War. For those of us who lived through that strange time, it was one of those stories that was always there. Every day for 20 years. We grew up...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please be sure to read Lynn Jackson’s “Wilderness Quandary: Does ‘Pretty’ Make Wilderness?” elsewhere in this issue. The retired Utah BLM staffer offers his views on another aspect of the wilderness debate–the nuts and bolts of the law and the process and its various interpretations…JS UTAH WILDERNESS. DEBATE…part 1 Does Anybody...
February 2, 1968 In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover. -Wendell Berry I can’t help but feel we should be in mourning. It seems the world is ending. For all...
The Wilder West …the Art & Wit of Dave Wilder “Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower “The future ain’t what it used to be.” - Yogi Berra When I was a kid, I loved thinking about the future. In the 1960s we were doing...
DAY of SEVEN BILLION by Kathleene Parker The United Nation’s choice of October 31, 2011, as the “Day of Seven Billion”—the day when Earth will attain a population of 7 billion—is spooky beyond just its falling on Halloween. But the hallmark—on a planet with fewer than 2.5 billion when this baby boomer...
SHELL HIGHWAY MAP…1934 Before there were iPods or WiFi or cell phones or Sirius… or even FM, there were AM radio stations scattered across the country… Shell Oil compiled a list of stations for interstate travelers… (Click the photos for larger view) To read...
“Offshore wind is one of the very few things that makes nuclear power look cheap.” Professor Dieter Helm, an economist from the University of Oxford. BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14412189 In 1995, no state had an obesity rate above 20 percent. Now, all but one does. The number of obese U.S. adults...
I n s t a n t M o a b …the Polaroid Wizardry of Terry Knouff Dugout Ranch – As I was walking through the luscious brush, I came upon a magnificent rock-mass. It was as if it was dug out from an old ranch. I was awestruck by it’s bodacious and...
State Of Nature, II A few years ago Bruce Anderson printed a piece of mine, “State Of Nature,” in his fine paper, the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Well, the situation has gotten worse, much worse. The state of nature is that it is being very rapidly disappeared. Alienation mounts, full bore, as we...
On the Consistency of Bullshit: an Ever-Swirling Tale By Scott Thompson I think that at least 90% of what the public sees about climate change on television or reads in right-leaning books and publications is bullshit. And by that I mean bullshit proper or a derivation thereof. Those few mainstream news stories that...
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