In the Spring of 1964 I traveled into Arches National Monument with my family. We entered the park over the Willow Flats Road, seven or eight miles of rough, one lane, sand and dirt in the family station wagon and…
Click Here to Visit John’s Website In 2001, the Zephyr interviewed John Depuy. Here’s how that interview began… John DePuy: Let me read you something. It says it all. It’s all I have to say. “Madman and seer–– Painter…
DATELINE: MOAB, UTAH—APRIL 4, 1956 It seems like only yesterday when our little hamlet of Moab slumbered peacefully, like a throwback to the 19th Century. Quiet lazy mornings. Peaceful green evenings. My serenity was only disturbed by the rumble of…
I must confess, I’m hesitant to label myself an environmentalist. Environmentalism, for the past 20-odd years at least, seems to me to have been an ideology of removal: remove the steel mills; remove the coal mines, remove the textile factories,…
From a 1988 ‘debate’ in the EARTH FIRST! JOURNAL… INTRODUCTION by DOUG MEYER What does this quarter-century old debate from US environmental history tell us? Very simply, honest environmentalism would have played only one role: that of counter-cultural force to…
Would 2016’s “New West” Even ‘Get” Ed Abbey’s Classic 1975 Novel? There’s a new “Monkey Wrench Gang” MOVIE rumor circulating on the internet. A web site called “New WorldOdor.com” reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is secretly producing the film version of…
Don’t miss this rare opportunity. The Life Work of JOHN DEPUY is at the HARWOOD MUSEUM TAOS, NEW MEXICO through MAY 1, 2016 CLICK HERE for More Information The Harwood Museum of Art is honored to present the expressionist paintings…
“….there have been some, even in the Park Service, who advocate spraying Delicate Arch with a fixative of some sort — Elmer’s Glue perhaps or Lady Clairol Spray-Net.” -E. Abbey Desert Solitaire When I first read that passage by Abbey,…
There was a time in the not too distant past, when the vast tracts of public land in Southeast Utah seemed more than adequate to lose oneself in. If I wanted to climb out of the old truck and wander…
