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Show LOVES/MISSES ANNE WILSON” El jim = I picked up the recent issue of Zephyr and flapped through the pages in search of my favorite columnist, Anne Wilson. I love her insightful, upbeat, erudite sole (sic) searches. She adds class to your rag, ole buddy! But of course I can’t find her column and I figure you've crossed swords with her. Then I see the photo of Anne and little BQ and am greatly relieved to see that her departure from your pages is not due to your persnickety notions. I hope Anne learns how to type with one hand so she can return to the Zephyr soon, and rekindle our sense of responsibility! = RETURN OF THE "EARTH RAPER" Well JS, As usual you are articulate, well versed and full of crap. Your article "Standing Room Only" left me in a state of disbelief, so I went back and read it a second time. First off, you have aligned yourself with the Sierra Club’s (and China’s) selfish agenda of population control. Without coming out and actually saying that people should not be allowed to reproduce as they see fit, you did manage to very effectively imply just that. So why not just say it Jim? Why didn’t you set the limit? Say, what, maybe two kids each? 1 also love to continually hear you moan about all the people that expand Grand County’s population, move to Moab, and generally degrade YOUR quality of life. Is everyone that moved there after you did in the wrong? Maybe they like it there for the same reasons you chose to move there. I do not necessarily like all the people that move to Richfield. Things here are not the same as when I was a kid, simply because of the increase in population and a lot of the "trash" that comes with it. But I do not get up on my soapbox and whine about it. If Richfield ever reaches the sorry state that your flaming liberal island community has, I will gladly pack my stuff and be gone. Then there is the issue of private property:(materialism) and how it affects the state of our planet and our natural resources. Between your desire to have the government control all lands, your problems with population expansion, and now your dislike of private property, | would have to conclude that yeu. advocate communism. I don’t give a damn if you, or your 30 year veteran friend of Arches, can find any place away from the crowds. You are living in a place of your own design. You fight and fight to get land set aside as wilderness, parks and monuments. Then you cry because people come to visit them in ever increasing numbers. Kind of ironic, isn’t it? GSEMN (Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument) has seen almost a hundredfold increase in human intrusion since being designated as a monument. YOU destroy the very places you supposedly wish to protect. Explain that. You stated that the current events have made your local issues appear almost trivial. If there is any positive effect of those attacks, it is that is-hhas revealed most of JD Phlippemhoff from a computer at the Monticello Library Editor’s Note: Me? "Cross Mr./Ms...Phlippemhoff? Hmmm. Anne’s poignant observations on future. Once she gets little Bates swords? Persnickety?" You cut me to the quick, However, I must admit, I never completely appreciated the bottoms of people's feet. I will pay closer attention in the Quinnie under control, I feel cues the Blonde Bomber will be back...JS E Mail Your Feedback Comments: We prefer email comments to Feedback because we don't have to re-type them. So EMAIL your letters and save someone from developing carpal tunnel syndrome. zephyr@moci.net STILL LOOKING AT THAT MIRROR Dear Jim, It has been three fourths of a year since you published the "It’s Time to Look in the Mirror" issue of the Zephyr. The "Feedback" issue showed an overwhelmingly postitive response. Nine months later I still hear people talk about that "Mirror" issue. I thought the issue was an incredible look at the conscience of us all, including me, my friends, fellow envirortmentalists as well as yourself and the Zephyr. You posed a peculiar dilemma for the environmental community. This dilemma is difficult to describe. When I look in the mirror, | can’t reach through, grab what I see and pull it out to look at it closer. I have to study theimage carefully from out here and that is not easy. In looking in the mirror | think you found a generalized and subtle criticism of environmental movement tenets. You can correct me if 1 am wrong. the liberal agenda, environmentalism included, for what it is. Trivial. But I understood what you wrote was not meant as criticisms of specific organizations Have a nice day. but of a cluster of attitudes which pervade preservation literature. Your criticisms tend to come from a web of connections between communities and the surrounding public (Name withheld by request but aka) earth_raper@hotmail.com I truly believe that beneath this surly exterior beats a heart of gold...JS lands. Environmentalists tend to emphasize a few portions of this intricate web and _obscure the changes in the web from environmental policies. People sometimes cite the statistic about counties with the fastest growing economies having large areas protected as wilderness. The kind of county this refers to is Pitkin County, CO, home of Aspen. There is a contradiction here because J, like other environmentalists, also complain about the "Aspenization” of the west. In this sense wilderness corrupts and alters the rural world we hold dear. Perhaps it is not wilderness that corrupts but people like me who rush into the rural west to live near the lands we love. Since my wife and I moved here I guess you could say we moved Moab two people closer to Aspen. Environmentalists appear to have a hands off approach to managing rural growth in the face of the public lands management that we advocate. There are trade-offs. Some local communities push activities which are far more harmful than wilderness. In Moab we have mountain bikers, dirt bikers, ATVs, 4x4s GLEN CANYON INSTITUTE P.O. Box 1925 Flagstaff, AZ 86002 520.556.9311 www.glencanyon.org _ HELP US RESTORE-A MASTERPIECE Richard Ingebretsen, President of GCI says: “JUST FLUSH IT!’ Give a loved one a gift with meaning. Give them a YGP membership. Or donate by shopping on-line at igive.com For more info call: 435.259.2326 Or visit us at: 350 South 400 East in Moab THE YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT |
