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Show not "Styles." Anyway, nice try, kids. I’m flattered that you took THE ZEPHYR so much time and effort to be so small-minded. Anyway, thanks to the miracle of the internet and email, I was able to write a response to the ‘Letter’ almost immediately and thanks to Zephyr staffer Sasa Woodruff, who was in Moab to print copies of the reply and mail them, everyone who had received the boneheaded junk mail received my reply. within 72 hours. Now, all these months later, it still amazes me that some Volume 13 Number| see people in this town can be so petty—-and by the way, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE---despite your efforts, Moab is still a small town he THE NUTSHELL With See Russell aa on the ‘Vagina Monologues, Cloudrock, and as they used to say in the Big War, "Loose lips sink ships." Land use code reform...And Stiles on Cloudrock The truth is, I always appreciate and even enjoy a frankexchange of ideas and have no problem including opinions that are at odds with my own, just as long as you sign the damn letter. But I think it might be worth it to track the history of this publication’s opinions on the issue of growth and development and its effects on the well-being of our community. I’ve been writing about this subject for 12 years now and it is interesting, if nothing else, to go back through the files and follow the changes in Moab as they happened. Of course, it’s impossible to re-print all those back issues and editorials. But, once again, there is the internet. So we've set up a new web site, not only to include a chronology of this town’s | recent history as seen through The Zephyr, but to also make it very clear that The Zephyr supports Progress for Moab. Progress means finding a better life and trying to understand Life and all its variables. Progress. So the new web site is: www.promoab.com ee 6..POINTBLANK: It’s All in the Planning By John Kovash and NEW WEST BLUES by Jim Stiles 9... THE NUTSHELL: Photographic Evidence Dog of the Month has gone to the birds....Pruning the Trees: Moab City-style...How to improve rocks... 13..ITS TIME TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR When will environmentalists acknowledge their own contribution to the destruction of the wilderness they claim to love and want to protect? By Jim Stiles . The integrity of the fond must come S ftibclae cows or sheep or hikers or bikers. That’s ‘pro’ for Progress We hope to have the site up very soon. You will be able to go directly to the site or link to it through The Zephyr’s web site. HOW ABOUT A LITTLE TUNE? So I was 12,000 miles away, sitting in a paddock listening to kookaburras while hundreds of ants swarmed all over my feet, and I was feeling a bit annoyed by all this ‘Friends of the Zephyr’ crap. I come all the way out here to Boyup Brook, a damn sheep town, I complained to myself, a hemisphere away from home and I still can’t get clear of the bullshit. Even the radio antics of Ted Bull on the ABC couldn’t brighten my day. But then I went into 18..J7S THE NUMBERS, STUPID! By Jim Stiles As the U.S. population approaches 300,000,000, guidebooks G tour guides have the potential to turn the backcountry into a nightmare. And it’s only the beginning... 20....NOT ALE PIMPS WEAR PLATFORM ee By Dirk Vaughan How does a recreation-based company honor its commitment to environmental values? town fora Frosty Fruit and a look around and a chance stroll into a second hand store changed my life. I bought a harmonica. "Is it used?” I asked. "This is a second hand store, mate...what do you think?" I examined the instrument carefully. "So I guess there could be years and years of dried spit in this thing, huh," I worried. The man shrugged, "What's a bit of spit between oe mates, eh?” How true. A bit of spit might bejust what the doctor ordered. So I laid out my multi-colored Aussie cash on the counter and 22... TWO VIEWS ON WILDERNESS By Liz Thomas & Dick Carter A generation after the debate on wilderness began, opinions on the meaning of wilderness still differ... 26... AROUND THE BEND AGAIN _ The Fight to Save Grazing... By Ken Sleight 30...STREAMOFCONSCIOUSNESS ‘How is my own Reflection?” By Anne Wilson walked away with my previously-owned Hohner chrome-plated deluxe harmonica and at least several decades of accumulated saliva. Well, as it turns out, I’m a damn harmonica prodigy...a natural. I have the Gift. From the moment I put my Hohner to my lips, I knew we had always been destined to meet. Without even trying, I was playing "Camptown Races" and "Shenandoa" and "The Red River Valley" and, of course, "My Old Kentucky Home" as ifI wrote the tunes myself. Soon I was tapping my feet and it was only the harmonica itself that kept me from grinning ear-to-ear. My cares fell away like mulberry leaves in the autumn. Nasty letters? Who cares? George Duh Bush is President of the United States? Oh well. Shucks...he means well. I felt, for the first time in years, true peace. Now, wherever I go, I carry my Hohner in a pocketknife case on my belt, and when trouble brews, I just play a tune. You should hear me do Beethoven; my rendition of "The Ode to Joy" has been known to make people cry. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS If your mailing label indicates a: 4/01 OR 5/01 your subscription is ABOUT TO EXPIRE! You should have received or you should soon receive a renewal notice. In order to avoid an interruption in your subscription we must receive your renewal before May 15, 2001We cannot include a issues with a bulk mailing. EMAIL THE ZEPHYR: ZEPHYR@MOCI.NET AND THE WEB SITE WWW. CANYONCOUNTRYZEPHYR.COM 33... TWISTED TABLOID By Dan O'Connor Earthquake hits Delicate Arch 34... 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