The View From Above A 1957 aerial photograph of Arches National Monument, including Abbey’s trailer. U95 bridge at Hite in Glen Canyon A new million dollar home, built on SITLA lands near Moab. Tarantula Mesa, just east of the…
The View From Above
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The Wilder West: Occupy Christmas…by Dave Wilder
The Wilder West: The Art and Wit of Dave Wilder Occupy Christmas Occupy Christmas ‘Twas some months before Christmas when all through the Land People took to the streets with signs in their hands. They…
The Zephyr Gets Married!
The Zephyr Gets Married! Though many people thought that pigs would fly before my husband married, Jim and I tied the knot on October 1st, surrounded by our nearest and dearest friends and family. It was a warm and breezy…
The October/November Issue of the Zephyr!
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT: UTAH WILDERNESS DEBATE…part 1 “Does Anybody Still Care?” –By Jim Stiles The Utah Wilderness Debate reminds me of the Vietnam War. For those of us who lived through that strange time, it was one of…
Take it or Leave it…by Jim Stiles
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please be sure to read Lynn Jackson’s “Wilderness Quandary: Does ‘Pretty’ Make Wilderness?” elsewhere in this issue. The retired Utah BLM staffer offers his views on another aspect of the wilderness debate–the nuts and bolts of the…
The Wilder West…by Dave Wilder
The Wilder West …the Art & Wit of Dave Wilder “Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower “The future ain’t what it used to be.” – Yogi Berra When I was…
Day of Seven Billion…by Kathleene Parker
DAY of SEVEN BILLION by Kathleene Parker The United Nation’s choice of October 31, 2011, as the “Day of Seven Billion”—the day when Earth will attain a population of 7 billion—is spooky beyond just its falling on Halloween.…
The Bulletin Board of Doom
“Offshore wind is one of the very few things that makes nuclear power look cheap.” Professor Dieter Helm, an economist from the University of Oxford. BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14412189 In 1995, no state had an obesity rate…
Clinging Hopelessly to the Maps…Shell Highway Map 1934
SHELL HIGHWAY MAP…1934 Before there were iPods or WiFi or cell phones or Sirius… or even FM, there were AM radio stations scattered across the country… Shell Oil compiled a list of stations for interstate travelers… (Click the photos…
Instant Moab…by Terry Knouff
I n s t a n t M o a b …the Polaroid Wizardry of Terry Knouff Terry Knouff has been loving the Canyonlands country since 1979, and living in it since 1987. But his first love ) is photography.…