A look at his original manuscript–the Introduction EDWARD ABBEY’S collection of essays was originally to be called “Desert Music.” Ed was always trying to help out young artists and writers and based on a single cartoon I’d given him the…
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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…JIm Stiles Where to Frack…My Favorite Tourists: Charles Pipes KingWorld & Albert Christensen…? SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles The President of Uruguay…A Role Model for America? Digging Out from Global Warming The WILDER WEST… the Art & Wit…
In February, despite citizens’ objections and a petition that contained 75,000 signatures, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved the lease of 26 parcels of public land for possible oil and gas development south of Moab. All the parcels were…
When I was a seasonal ranger, I lived at the Devils Garden Campground at Arches National Park for a full decade. Some people thought I’d never leave; even I wondered if I’d ever get out of there alive. I worried…
Little did I know, as I wrote my article in January about the desire for snow, that winter hadn’t truly passed us over this year. It was just delayed. And, two weeks after the last Zephyr went up, down…
NOTE: In the early years of The Zephyr, Moab was transforming itself, though not everyone was sure just who the ‘transformers’ were. We set out to ask the citizens of Moab and Grand County what they saw coming. Here is…
2013 PROLOGUE: As Moab began to ‘take off’ in the late 80s, we all wondered who would try to bring some order out of the brewing chaos. Via a grant from the City of Moab, formr Park City resident Tom…
Kevin Anderson, a climate scientist at the University of Manchester in the U.K., is one of those humans who somehow never learned to be a proper, timid professional, and is therefore honest to a fault. One of our species’ success…
Washington, D.C. March 16, 1968 I am today announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the United States. I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man but to propose new policies. I run because I am…
Funny how we humans all crave paradise. I’m not talking about any hypothetical paradise beyond the grave either, that always just sounded like a bore to me. No, I’m talking about real, flower scented, bare breasted, warm and sandy, sin-filled,…
AN INTERVIEW WITH EDWARD ABBEY… What follows is the transcript of an interview conducted by Eric Temple with Ed Abbey in December 1982. The interview took place in the cabin behind Abbey’s Tucson home and was videotaped for a program…
How Silence & Tranquility Became Antiquated Notions in the Brave New West… I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau When Thomas Jefferson…
The numbers are in. Moab is growing. Judging by the sound of circular saws and hammers echoing around town these days commercial and residential construction projects valued at over $19 million are underway. Moab will add 300 hotel rooms…
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… Rock Springs, Wyoming – 2006. This was the first place I ever…
A new and controversial frontier in mining is opening up as a British firm joins a growing rush to exploit minerals in the depths of the oceans…UK Seabed Resources is a subsidiary of the British arm of Lockheed Martin. It…
Just as the Boom was Beginning… ABOVE: This is an image of the southeastern part of Moab. The curving highway that crosses the top part of the photo is US 191.. Visible is the just built City Market and McDonald’s…
NOTE: The Zephyr recently received a DVD of a 1949 documentary film by Ray Garner. The film is silent; Mr. Garner exhibited this film to audiences around the country and provided ‘live’ narration. The film is now in the public…
RENO, NEVADA THEN (1944) & NOW (via Google Maps) 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…
This article was originally published in 2004… When Aldo Leopold saw fierce green fire in the eyes of the dying wolf his life was changing; years of living in wolf country were driving those moments, years of paying attention,…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…JIm Stiles ‘OLD MOAB’ vs ‘NEW MOAB— Ed Abbey, Chilled Red Wine & When to Clap at the Symphony. SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles “Memories of Snow’ The WILDER WEST… the Art & Wit of DAVE WILDER “Theodore…