October/November 2011

The October/November Issue of the Zephyr!

October 2, 2011
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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...

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Take it or Leave it…by Jim Stiles

October 2, 2011
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  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...

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Sowing Clover…by Tonya Stiles

October 2, 2011
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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...

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The Wilder West…by Dave Wilder

October 2, 2011
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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...

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Day of Seven Billion…by Kathleene Parker

October 2, 2011
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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...

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Clinging Hopelessly to the Maps…Shell Highway Map 1934

October 2, 2011
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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...

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The Bulletin Board of Doom

October 2, 2011
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  “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...

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Instant Moab…by Terry Knouff

October 2, 2011
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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  prodigious sedimentary peak.

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...

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Losing Solitude: State of Nature, II…by Martin Murie

October 2, 2011
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  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...

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On the Consistency of Bullshit: an Ever-Swirling Tale…by Scott Thompson

October 2, 2011
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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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‘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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