In 2013 I attended a San Juan County Commission meeting to talk with the commissioners about how the proposed public lands bill being considered by Congressman Bishop would affect the recreation economy of the region. I am an outfitter…
This is the second in a series of Zephyr Interviews, that we have pulled from our archives and re-posted. We offer these interviews as a way of measuring the changes that Moab and Southeast Utah have experienced in the 25…
In October 1991, I received a manila envelope from somebody named Dan O’Connor, up in Leavenworth, Washington. Somehow Dan had become a regular reader and a subscriber and was troubled by my obvious lack of graphic technical skills. I was,…
MOAB June 1950 CORONA ARCH Summer 1960 “They will never be able to see what we saw. They will never feel what we felt. They will never learn what we know.” Edward Abbey To see the PDF version of this…
COMING SOONER OR LATER… No one knows for sure when it happened…when the forces of nature, wind and water and gravity, scoured a lone Entrada Sandstone outcropping of rock until they finally punched a small opening in the rock fin.…
In the first few years of the Zephyr, I drew a new cartoon to grace the front page of each issue. Here is a small sampling of those covers…JS Jim Stiles is the Founder and Co-Publisher of the Canyon Country…
Over the years, the Zephyr has published innumerable articles on Edward Abbey. Below, we’ve assembled links to as many as we could find… Quiet Times at Arches National Monument: Lloyd Pierson and Lyle Jameson remember Arches in the 1950s…by Jim…
The Zephyr is honored to present selected images from TOM TILL’s remarkable book, “Then & Now.” Mt. Olympus 1930’s Mt. Olympus 60 Years Later, Viewed from Murray, Utah. To read the PDF version of this article, click here.…
The Zephyr has always been noted for its ’cartoon ads,’which Stiles initiated with the first issue. We believe we may be the only publication in America where readers consistently looked at the ads first, before they read the articles. Here…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Recently the threat (or promise, depending on your point of view) of new oil and gas development in the area of Big Flat in Grand County has once again aroused local passions, for and against this renewed effort…