Last summer Jim Stiles and Bob Greenspan and I met in Jackson, Wyoming. Bob and I favored crossing the street to a cafe for coffee, but Jim led us to a shady outside bench and we sat there quite a…
Losing Solitude: Let’s Talk…by Martin Murie
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VLACHOS’ VIEWS…Photos and Captions by Paul Vlachos
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… 1. Fort Stockton, Texas. Out back of a radiator shop in a…
Tread Softly, Because You Tread on Our Dreams…by Jim Stiles
NOTE: This short essay appeared in the second issue of The Zephyr, in May 1989. From the beginning, this publication always believed that ‘wilderness’ was more than a piece of legislation or a product to be marketed. Almost 25 years…
The ‘GREEN’ Circle that Eats Its Own…by Jim Stiles
What do oil companies & environmentalists have in common? Sometimes their money comes from the same ‘donor.’ A few years ago, High Country News and Writers on the Range published an essay by Gary Wockner called, “Can Billionaire Philanthropy Save…
THE BULLETIN BOARD OF DOOM!
“As is everything in Vegas, the FleurBurger 5000 is over the top with a hefty price tag of $5,000.00…… It is a Kobe burger containing foie gras, a special truffle sauce, and is served on a brioche truffle bun…
The June/July Issue of the Zephyr!
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles Glen Canyon, 50 years after the Dam About the Grand Canyon Trust, ‘A Just & Healthy Future,’ & Doug Meyer’s Honest Response The Rise and Fall of Hair…A History SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles The Trouble…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT: Glen Canyon +50, Doug Meyer responds to Hedden and the GCT, and The Rise and Fall of Hair…by Jim Stiles
GLEN CANYON, A HALF CENTURY AFTER THE DAM… In all the years and centuries and eons before it was flooded, only a relative handful of people saw the untamed, free and flowing Colorado River in Glen Canyon. When the gates…
SOWING CLOVER: The Trouble with ‘Women’s Issues’ …by Tonya Morton
I’ve read quite a few articles over the years–and it seems like a slew lately–telling me what “women” are saying, thinking and wanting. All are about as predictable as you’d expect. Usually they refer to some small subset of women…
At Acoma: Pueblo Sacred Humor & Dominant Hierarchies…by Scott Thompson
“Evidence of the power and effect of jokes can be seen in the fact that dictators and totalitarian regimes – and occasionally also thin-skinned politicians in democracies – fear them like the plague.” – Paul Watzlawick As is so often…
An Honest Response to Bill Hedden, the Grand Canyon Trust & ‘A Just and Healthy Future for the 100%’…by Doug Meyer
“In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.” — Derrick Jensen, Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization Formed in the mid 1980s in order to dispel the…