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Show FEEDBACK do not pretend to know all of the answers and if some one said that they do, I’m sure there are a lot of people who will want to meet this person. If you pay your tax dollars, no matter where you live you are entitled to speak your peace BUT what about the people who live here, what say do they have. I can show you building material piles dumped into gullies, I can show you shot-up 5 gallon gas cans in the woods, I can show you containers of oil cans in the woods. NO ONE can say that they REALLY take care of the land. (Continued) Kudos to Dirk’s Platform Shoes Editor, : There are those that do a better job than other so there is enough blame to go around but WHO will be the first to step up to the plate and begin the process. If you find that person THEY will be the true Environmentalist and-or Rancher. Thanks for your time. We here in the tiny hamlet don’t get you paper very often but it is informative. : Just read Dirk Vaughan’s piece on pimps that don’t wear platform shoes. Having lived in a small mountain town in western Colo for three years, MAN did it ring true. We're all pimps to a degree, selling the place we live, one experience at a time, to the highest bidder. It’s not as obvious as the real estate agent or the land developer or the ski area operator, Tom Mansell Escalante, Utah but it is the same. How will we find a balance between our need for the solace of the outdoors and wilderness and the cumulative impacts over time? Wilderness as a "fundraising machine?" With great difficulty if at all. Very nice piece, Dirk. im- : Neal Graham Austin, Texas Liz Thomas wants us to wait out the Bush administration, and then (maybe, no promises) we’ll get some significant BLM wilderness designated in Utah. She’s getting paid to wait, but for most of us the only reward is when the land is protected. What if Grand Gulch, for example, had received wilderness designation when there were 7,000 visitors a year instead of upwards of 70,000? The BLM might have gotten an ‘adequate budget to manage the area and initiate a permit system before it was too late. Frustrated in Escalante Jim Stiles, In response to your "editorial/story” in the April-May 2001 edition of the Zephyr, well Waiting has gotten us nowhere for 16 years. The national environmental groups have turned the Utah wilderness issue into a fundraising machine that is fueled by legislative gridlock. I don’t know what to say. First of all I hail from that little hamlet that you so fondly speak about called Escalante. Patrick Diehl and Torrey Woodard live about two blocks from me and I am never afraid to talk to them when ever they stop by. I have had people tell me if I talk to them they won’t talk to me...oh well. This is where I get into the sixth grade Richard M. Warnick Salt Lake City mentality. We (my wife and I) started a business here and I'll bet you next question is, were we accepted. My answer is, it depends on who you talk to. ; I really want to congratulate you on your article. I know you have heard it before that "everyone" wants to protect the land for all but...My main question is WHO will be the first Making the Ultimate Sacrifice? Dear Mr. Stiles, to make that move to bring both sides together to come to a common ground? Your My family and I have just finished reading your recent issue of the ZEPHYR. Congratulations of effectively tackling the difficult, unpopular, and pressing issues comment of the chaining and the farmer stating that he did not want to talk to you because he did not want to be called that "E" word. Let’s look at what’s happening in this hamlet. We have street lights about to be installed, we have trees lining Main Street (Hwy.12) with a drip irrigation system and hopefully we are about to get a new reservoir. The High School is about to get a 2+ million dollar addition (auditorium), the BLM is going to build a new (I believe) 12,000 sq. ft. Visitor Center. Now let’s talk about what is happening. Roads are closing because of the new Monument Plan. Tour permits are due out any time. People do not want the Monument in "this" town BUT when they sell their land /houses in town they want monument prices. It’s the old "get out of here” with their hands out to the government and I can give you example after example of this happening. revolving around the informed and moving, Manti-LaSal National (where we most often. impacts that recreationists have on public lands. The articles were and forced us to look hard and in new ways at our own use of the Forest and the BLM’s San Juan Resource Area in San Juan County recreate). Your articles have helped reveal our misuse of the area. Like Sue Tixier’s parents, we had little idea how we were impacting the land. And like Anne Wilson, we have much work to do to achieve a greater harmony with our outdoor playgrounds. As a result of your fine issue, and the points so cogently made by the authors, my following changes to our recreational patterns. family has made the I do believe that the beauty of this town/area will be its down fall. As you stated, you get the weekend warriors coming in here in their Land Rovers and SUVs, trying to protect something that they see only once in as while. Try living here. I take neither side because I can see both sides points. When I start to go one way they do some thing completely irrational so I’ll go the other way then they do something completely irrational. WHO will give in first? WHO will give that first gesture that will start the ball rolling?? The other side, instead of saying "Thanks" or "Let’s make this work,” will come back and say, "We wore them out, ha, ha, ha, we won. j Maybe it is time for every one to stop and take a look in the mirror to see who is calling - * * * * * * Our ATVs and trailer are now for sale I am looking for articles that explain why we need to stay on established trails I have cancelled my subscriptions to OUTDOOR and ADVENTURE magazines My son’s rock climbing gear is for sale < My daughter has decided she will not work this summer for the river company We will not make another donation to the environmental organization we've supported who, what. Unless that happens, no matter what side you are on, everyone will lose. The This may not be much, when viewed from the Colorado Plateau perspective, but we feel that it is an important beginning for us. I hope others will examine their own land use popularity of every place in Southern Utah is growing greatly. WHY, ethics and take the small personal steps that will lead to protecting our public lands from because everyone ‘wants to get out of where they are, so they come down here for a weekend, then go home further degradation. and they now want to "preserve" this place for themselves to come back to in the future. I have a great idea--lets go to the big city and take away the cars and pollution and ram Sincerely, it down their throats and see how they like it. I’ll bet they will not. Will we be called CT. Lyman and Family environmentalists?? I’ll bet we won’t. I’ll bet we'll be told to mind our own business, don’t butt in and go home to our clean air, clear starry nights and we'll see you next year to tell you what to do with YOUR land. Whenever we used to get into trouble we'd say, "Sit down, take a deep breath count to ten and think it out.” WHO has done that lately?? There is no trust and we all know it. 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