I woke up early this morning. Early is 3:30 am, this after an 11:30 bedtime. I sometimes hear people talk about how they can’t sleep. I wonder if they mean what I mean when I say that I can’t sleep.…
Real Silence… by Damon Falke
Category: October/November 2019
THE BLM, DEVILS CANYON & “IMPROVING NATURE” … by Jim Stiles
Almost 40 years ago, I bought some land in San Juan County. The property was part of what had once been an 800 acre ranch. Not long after, I went on a reconnoitering hike and discovered a small wooded side…
A TAKE-NO-PRISONERS STYLE OF POLITICS IN SAN JUAN COUNTY… by Bill Keshlear
First of all, there’s no such thing as objectivity. How you see the world depends on where you stand and who you are. There’s nothing anybody can do about that. So my solution is to tell readers where I stand.…
San Juan County: The Mexican Water Town Meeting, Featuring Mark Maryboy and Grandma Betty
On August 22, 2019, a town hall-style meeting was held in Mexican Water, Utah. The gathering was open to all citizens of San Juan County and it was attended by the county’s three commissioners, Kenneth Maryboy, Willie Grayeyes and Bruce Adams.…
RETRO ZEPHYR…30…20…10 years ago.
THIRTY YEARS AGO… These were our fourth and fifth issues of the then-monthly Zephyr and our first election issue. I interviewed both mayoral candidates for the November issue, Bill Meador and the incumbent, Tom Stocks. Even then, the issue of…
(POINTBLANK) Environmental Controversies: Avoid Group Think & Herd Mentality like the Plague… by Kevin Franck
I’ve pulled away from following almost all of the non-profit environmental groups and organizations because they have become consumed more about politics and power, rather than actually caring about what happens to Nature. Nature is used these days as a…
HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, October 1940
This is Hank Schmidt’s Monthly Report from October of 1940. He’d been the park custodian at Arches National Monument for roughly a year. Click Here to Read HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, June 1940 Click Here to Read…
Herb Ringer’s American West: CAMERON, ARIZONA
HERB RINGER and his parents, Sadie and Joseph, traveled across the American West and into the Canadian Rockies on numerous trips, from 1941 to 1973. We are in the process of scanning hundreds of Herb’s Kodachrome transparencies that have never…
The BLM/FOIA Recapture Documents, part 2: May 13-19, 2014
This is the second batch of documents from The Zephyr’s 2018 FOIA request to the Bureau of Land Management. The request for documents related to the May 10, 2014 “Recapture Canyon “Protest” that led eventually to the indictment and conviction…
The BLM/FOIA Recapture Documents, part 2: May 19-29, 2014
This is the second batch of documents from The Zephyr’s 2018 FOIA request to the Bureau of Land Management. The request for documents related to the May 10, 2014 “Recapture Canyon “Protest” that led eventually to the indictment and conviction…