PAGE 2: TAKE IT OR LEAVE
IT: Editorial by Jim Stiles
PAGE 4: THE NUTSHELL With Steve Russel & Jim Stiles
Russell adds his voice to the chorus with opinions on the Atlas pile, law enforcement consolidation, the hospital.
PAGE 6: POINTBLANK: "...dishonest, inaccurate,
and downright shameful."
By Gordon Swenson, Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club
and...NEW WEST BLUES:
By Jim Stiles
PAGE 9: THE NUTSHELL Photographic Evidence
Stay to the RIGHT of the yellow line? Here comes Burger King...
PAGE 10: THE CANYON COUNTRY WATCHDOG
By Liz Thomas & Herb McHarg of S.U.W.A.
Out-of-control ORV's, Monument plan update, More.
PAGE 15: -SPECIAL SECTION-
Does ANYBODY like the Feds?
PAGE 16: A MONUMENTAL IDEA? By
Susan Tixier
Almost four years after Clinton's proclamation, an update on Grand Staircase/Escalante N.M.
PAGE 18: THE PRICE IS NOT RIGHT
By Alexandra L. Woodruff
Has the government's Fee Demonstration Program priced most Americans out of their own public lands?
PAGE 20: LOGGING, DOLLARS, & SENSE By John Talberth & Karyn Moskowitz
The economic case against National Forest logging.
PAGE 23: Dan O'Connor's TWISTED
TABLOID
"Incredible Mountain Poodles of Moab!"
PAGE 24: SEASONS OF DISCONTENT By Cort Felts
In the National Park Service, not all employees are created equal.
PAGE 26: AN INTERVIEW WITH JERRY BANTA
The new NPS superintendent speaks candidly about the national parks in SE Utah.
PAGE 30: AROUND THE BEND
By Ken Sleight
What is nuclear waste doing to the health of San Juan County?
PAGE 30: STREAMOFCONCIOUSNESS
By Anne Wilson
Anne's "Wil" versus Peter's "Law."
PAGE 36: FEEDBACK:
An extraordinary selection of letters and comments on a variety of issues. From racism to Funafuti, from intolerance to light whining...