MOAB NEEDS A TRUCK STOP Winter is usually a quiet time in Moab. Most of downtown is closed and won’t reopen until February. It’s cold, of course, and few visitors are interested in hiking or biking in the winter time…
THANKS to Tom McCourt & the Tibbetts Family. For years, I have been watching Moab move farther and farther away from its roots, to the point where it seems few people even know the history of the place anymore. Some…
Before my move to Moab, in the mid 1980’s, winter here wasn’t a factor for me. Like many visitors, my time in Moab had been limited to the spring or fall, I didn’t even imagine what a Moab winter would…
EDITORS NOTE: Last year, the enormous Memorial Day crowds trying to visit Arches National Park finally ovewrwhelmed the place. Parking at the Devils Garden and at Delicate Arch overflowed—there was literally no place to park. Lines of vehicles outside the…
“What are we going to do with this planet? It’s a problem of love; not the humanistic love of the West – but a love that extends to animals, rocks, dirt, all of it. Without this love, we can end,…
HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border to the Rio Grande and from the Big Sur coast to the High Plains. We…
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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘SUSTAINABLE’ MOAB— A Reality Check SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles WHO CAN KEEP YOUR SECRETS?BEFORE & AFTER Southeast Utah…Then & Now THE DEVILS CANYON/US 191 ROAD PROJECT… 2004-05 MOAB ‘GROUND ZERO’…Kara Dohrenwend NOVEMBER: IT’S ALL…
Among many Moabites who instinctively label themselves “progressive environmentalists,” the collective vision for a better future in Southeast Utah is frequently and inextricably linked to one word— it’s almost a rallying point: ‘Sustainability.’ I see the word enthusiastically bandied about…
Jerome Arkansas Mom, her mother and father, two sisters and six brothers, and the other Fresno Fairground horse stable inmates left Fresno on October 20, 1942. My uncle Ken, then 16, recalls the very long train that carried them from…