“The government is not in the business of taking care of the people or the land, the government is in the business of taking care of the government.” I read this comment on The Friends of Canyon Country Zephyr page…
Albert Christensen loved stone, Jesus and Franklin Roosevelt. He was an artist from the time of his birth and was driven by an almost primal need to express himself. He created his own kingdom at “Hole n’ the Rock, a…
In The Zephyr’s first year of publication, Canyonlands National Park celebrated its 25th anniversary. I interviewed then-Superintendent Harvey Wickware, who gave his assessment of Canyonlands National Park’s first quarter century, and offered his vision of the Park at 50…Last month…
FIRST…SOME BATES WILSON STORIES… I came to Moab and became a seasonal ranger at Arches just a couple of years after Bates Wilson retired from the National Park Service, so I never had the chance to work for him. But…
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…
‘THE BIGGEST PUBLIC LAND GRAB’ The ‘Green Energy Boom’ & Mainstream Environmentalism Sometimes the endless open spaces of the West impress me most when I can’t see them at all. One night when I was a ranger at the…
