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August/September 2019

The President Slept Here: Theodore Roosevelt’s 1913 Visit to Kayenta and Beyond… by Harvey Leake (With assistance from Natalie Cunningham)

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 3 Comments

How would you feel if you learned that a former president was coming to stay at your home? In 1913, fifteen-year-old Sister Wetherill was both excited and worried when she heard that Theodore Roosevelt would be spending some time at…

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August/September 2019

HOW TO GET LOST ON A 10′ WIDE TRAIL AT ARCHES NATIONAL PARK. (Ranger Stiles #5 1975-1986) …by Jim Stiles

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 6 Comments

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…

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August/September 2019

Pointblank: Does Supreme Court decision have local implications?… by Bill Boyle

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 0 Comments

NOTE: This article first appeared in the July 7 edition of the San Juan Record. Bill Boyle is its publisher and editor. — The United States Supreme Court issued a ruling in the past week regarding political gerrymandering. In brief,…

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August/September 2019

Herb Ringer’s American West: Marble Canyon & House Rock Valley, Arizona. 1946-1954

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 0 Comments

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…

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August/September 2019

(From the 2009 Zephyr Archives) THE BLANDING RAIDS: Shame and Hypocrisy All Around… by Jim Stiles

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 1 Comment

NOTE: This is the story I wrote for the August/September 2009 issue of The Zephyr, following the raid on Blanding homes by BLM law enforcement the previous June…JS   It’s an early morning in June 2009….Blanding, Utah.  Suddenly, more than a…

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August/September 2019

The BLM/FOIA Recapture Documents, part 1: March 21 to April 28, 2014.

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 0 Comments

When the BLM sent me the compact disk containing some of the documents I requested, I opened up the files and learned that the agency had divided the documents into four folders. They were labeled: 1. Employee1_DH 2. LE (law…

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August/September 2019

The BLM/FOIA Recapture Documents, part 1: May 2 to May 8, 2014

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 0 Comments

CLICK HERE TO READ DOCUMENTS FROM MARCH 21 to APRIL 28, 2014. CLICK HERE TO READ DOCUMENTS FROM MAY 8 to MAY 14, 2014. To comment, scroll to the bottom of the page. Don’t forget about the Zephyr ads! All…

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August/September 2019

The BLM/FOIA Recapture Documents, part 1: May 8 to May 14, 2014

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 0 Comments

CLICK HERE TO READ DOCUMENTS FROM MARCH 21 to APRIL 28, 2014. CLICK HERE TO READ DOCUMENTS FROM MAY 2 to MAY 8, 2014. To comment, scroll to the bottom of the page. Don’t forget about the Zephyr ads! All…

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August/September 2019

A Full Year of Backbone Supporters! Please Join!

by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 0 Comments

The Zephyr Backbone is what keeps us alive! Click Here to Join! *Note: The Cartoonist screwed up in Feb/March. In a subconscious attempt to escape the world’s news, he changed one of our Backbone Member’s names from “Michael” to “Richard”…

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June/July 2019

The June/July Issue of the Zephyr!

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 0 Comments

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June/July 2019

Take it or Leave it: MOAB: “STILL DOING SOMETHING PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE (to itself)” Volume 1… by Jim Stiles

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 9 Comments

NOTE: This is the first in a series. What has changed in Moab & Vicinity in the last couple of decades? These are my own remembrances going back to the late 70s. What was here…what’s gone…what’s lost forever? And…what’s new?…

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June/July 2019

Sowing Clover: What Else Can You Do?…Surviving America’s Latest Malaise–by Tonya Stiles

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 1 Comment

It was early afternoon and the grocery store was bustling. The cashier’s name was Candy. Candy had her long white hair smoothed back into a low ponytail. Thin and agile, she wore blue jeans and her regulation-red vest. She cast…

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June/July 2019

ZEPHYR EXTRA: MY EXCELLENT ADVENTURE DEEP INTO THE HEART OF GRAMALAND… by Bill Keshlear

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 1 Comment

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” Gloria Steinem San Juan County comprises a splendor of canyons, cliffs and castles of sandstone. Anyone who has made a random discovery of 1,000-year-old artifacts of human…

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June/July 2019

BE IT RESOLVED: FIVE MONTHS IN, A ROUGH TRANSFER OF POWER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY …by Bill Keshlear

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 13 Comments

Cultural and political rifts widen as newly elected Navajo commissioners of San Juan County, Utah, govern by resolutions approved without advice or informed consent of those governed. Critics say the commissioners’ private attorneys writing those resolutions and offering legal advice…

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June/July 2019

The 1891 Gustaf Nordenskiöld Explorations: Part II—Grand Canyon… by Harvey Leake

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 2 Comments

One of the most interesting lessons of history is how ideas, skills, and character traits are passed on from person to person. This is a story of a twenty-three-year-old Swedish explorer and scientist, Gustaf Nordenskiöld, who brought some remarkable influence…

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June/July 2019

Back to Fishing…by Damon Falke

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 0 Comments

Under the sun without summer and in landscapes familiar to me, and still I wonder what the hell am I doing here. A couple of weeks ago, I went for a walk not far from the house I’m renting and…

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June/July 2019

MOAB GREENS CONFESS: “INDUSTRIAL TOURISM” EXISTS. (And now…their ‘solutions’)…by Jim Stiles

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 16 Comments

“The problem with the conservation movement is that it has clear conscience.” — Wendell Berry. DISCLAIMER: This story makes no attempt to offer ‘solutions’, nor do I have any illusions, when considering the Future of Moab, Utah. I am simply…

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June/July 2019

The Open Road: SILENCE AND SOLITUDE… Words and Photos by Paul Vlachos

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 1 Comment

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… I was going to write about “quiet.” It’s a subject close to…

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June/July 2019

Confessions of a River Outlaw…by Herm Hoops

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 3 Comments

I was raised on a dairy farm, and grew up with the strength that long hours, hard work and responsibility gives a farm kid. When I wasn’t doing chores, I wandered and explored the fields, woodlands and swamps. I didn’t…

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June/July 2019

“RESCUE? JUST JUMP!” Ranger Stiles #4 (Arches NP 1975-86)… by Jim Stiles

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 1 Comment

The kid — male, age 16-25, stupid — was about nine feet up a sandstone fin, within sight of his campsite at the Devils Garden. He (I’ll call him Bobby) had been showing off for his girlfriend, eager to thrill…

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June/July 2019

Of Place…by Brandon Hill

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 1 Comment

In my limited understanding, in many Native American cultures, sense of place, and ones relation to the land they have been raised on, is considered down right spiritual. And while it is a subject I’m keen to learn more about,…

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June/July 2019

HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, June 1940

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 0 Comments

Hank Schmidt on horse

This is Hank Schmidt’s Monthly Report from June of 1940. He’d been the park custodian at Arches National Monument since the Fall of 1939. What a difference between 1940 and now… Click Here to Read HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches…

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June/July 2019

Herb Ringer’s American West: Zion & Bryce Canyon National Parks

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 1 Comment

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…

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June/July 2019

What Does (Did) Moab Want?…By Jim Stiles

by stiles • June 2, 2019 • 2 Comments

NOTE:  In the early years of The Zephyr, Moab was transforming itself, though not everyone was sure just who the ‘transformers’ were. We set out to ask the citizens of Moab and Grand County what they saw coming. Here is…

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