Author: stiles

The View From Above

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 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…

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…

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…

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.…