Herb’s parents, Joseph and Sadie Ringer, Mojave Desert. 1944 Herb in the Snow A prospector near Death Valley, California and his burro. Early 50s Shorty Yarberry at the South Rim. (Read more about Shorty HERE.) 1950 Herb, Playing Cowboy. Sherm…
Editor’s 1993 Note: Mr Flocko, at last report, was vacationing in Scotland, and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This office received a scratchy trans-Atlantic phone call from our hapless food editor, who was having a difficult time of…
Drought Drains Lake Mead to Lowest Level as Nevada Senator Calls for Government Audit As the largest reservoir in the U.S. falls to its lowest water level in history, Nevada State Sen. Tick Segerblom introduced a bill title and issued a press…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles “In Defense of Ravens (and Crows)” “I Still Miss Gene Schafer” SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Audyn Stiles ‘Does My Soul Look Good in These Jeans?” from the May 1995 Zephyr Archives ‘ABOUT PRICKLY PEAR & POVERTY’…
Recently, the Utah Wildlife Board proposed a hunting season for crows. While they are not particularly tasty and are known for their intelligence, crows have often been blamed by farmers for agricultural losses via crop damage—crows have to eat, after…
It should shock no one that, when I was in school, I often fought with my professors. I was raised by parents who taught me to trust my internal logic, and so when anyone, even authority figures, told me something…
I’d been away from Monticello for a couple months, but one evening last week, after a long, hard drive, I pulled into the old elm-shaded driveway and started to unload my bags. Just then, the siren went off. For Monticello-ites,…
By the mid-1990s, Moab and Grand County citizens—especially voters—were worn out. So was I. Beginning in 1987, with Moab’s economy in tatters and its elected officials proposing a toxic waste incinerator at Cisco to boost property taxes, it was one…
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re pleased and honored to offer an excerpt from author Katie Lee’s new book, ‘Ghosts of Dandy Crossing.’ Dandy Crossing, September 1962 They clattered up Farley Creek a half mile, slid to park and went into the store.…
The golden light of October cottonwoods in the canyons was as I remembered. The year was 2002, and I had returned to the Utah canyon country for a rendezvous with a crowd of friends. We had been rangers together during…
“do,do,do, lookin’ out my back door” Anti-crepuscular rays over the La Sals Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud Moab monsoon clouds Color wedge on Slickrock Rainbow Rim Sunset from La Sal view Front-door sunset First light on Poison Spider Rim Mysterious v-shaped cloud,…
“I tossed my empty out the window and popped the top from another can of Schlitz. Littering the public highway? Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it’s not the beer cans that are…
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… 1. Hattiesburg, Mississippi, just as dawn is breaking and I’m starting the…
For more on Daniel Shellabarger (Suelo) today, almost 20 years after he penned this ‘Letter of the Month’ to The Zephyr, see the update at the end of his essay… From the May 1995 Zephyr This…is about prickly pear and…
EDITOR’S NOTE: A Physician, a physicist, a devout Mormon, and an unbridled optimist, Dr.Richard Ingebretsen also wants to drain Lake Powell. In this July 2000 interview, he explains why…JS Zephyr: Rich you’re a very enthusiastic and passionate environmentalist and a…
How does a small, scrappy desert conservation organization, unheard of by most westerners, funded mainly by membership dues and run by volunteers for most of its 60 years, continue to make its voice heard on proposals for large energy development…
The Lake Powell Disaster Congressional Commission was authorized by Congress on November 15, 1992 to investigate the causes and effects of the Lake Powell disaster of July 4, 1992. Approximately 200,000 investigative man-hours have been expended, involving twenty-three different government…
Lee’s Ferry Summer 1968 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…
FROM THE NYTIMES: Movements like Bill McKibben’s 350.org, for instance, might engage people, [Paul] Kingsnorth told me, but they have no chance of stopping climate change. “I just wish there was a way to be more honest about that,”…
All photos by author unless otherwise noted. I moved to Dead Cat, Arizona, in the spring of 1995. Dead Cat occupies about one square mile of land completely enclosed by the Coconino National Forest at an altitude of 7000 feet. …
The Zephyr is honored to present selected images from TOM TILL’s remarkable book, “Then & Now.” GLEN CANYON THE COLORADO RIVER Visit Tom Till’s Website. To see the PDF version of this page, click here. To…