Tag: Rangers

“When ‘Bears Ears’ had TOO MUCH protection?” A Personal Recollection…by Jim Stiles

by stiles • December 5, 2017 • 5 Comments

NOTE: For the purposes of this story I refer to the area of Grand Gulch and Cedar Mesa as “Bears Ears.” But please note that in the forty-seven years I’ve known and wandered southeast Utah, literally NOBODY ever referred to…

Take it or Leave it: MY ‘ALMOST-FERGUSON’ MOMENT: Rangers Should ‘Range’ But Fear & Adrenalin Can Be Deadly…by Jim Stiles

by stiles • December 2, 2014 • 3 Comments

PREFACE: The events in Ferguson, Missouri remind me of a moment in my own brief career in law enforcement, as a ranger with the National Park Service at Arches NP. I wrote this account in 2005, years after the confrontation…