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Show STOP...THIS IS NOT A TRAIL When you walk off trail, you cause extensive damage to Arches’ vegetation and cryptobiotic crust. Please do your part by staying on designated trails HGH THIS you couse extensive damage to Arches and cepinttnncs const. do your part by staring os designated trails. I've put on my suit coat and my lucky iridescent cartoon tie because on November 5, I'm headed to the polls and exercizing, my * vegetation OUTSIDE MAGAZINE HITS NEW LOW I gave up on Outside Magazine about 20 years ago as anything but a shamelessly exploitative rip-off of the natural world. For decades this glossy rag has trumpeted an endless list of "Last Best Kept Secrets." Its apparent soul purpose is to find forgotten or unknown remnants of America that still retain a touch of honest and untrammeled beauty and then broadcast its discovery to the mindless masses of recreationalists, who arrive in numbers far beyond the land’s capacity to absorb the shock. And ruin it. Physically and metaphysically. It’s what Outside does. Now Outside has even out-done itself. A feature story in the August issue called "Go Stake Your Claim,” moves the mag into the arena of real estate. "(Here) are six elemental landscapes," it proclaims, "forest, desert, inland waterfront, prairie, mountain, and coast— featuring 18 blissfully unsullied locales...Our survey largely showcases undeveloped private land, which remains plentiful and cheap." Included, of course, are even some “unsullied locales" in southern Utah. It does warn that potential buyers may be put off by the remoteness ("Forget it if yeu can’t live without Macy’s."). I think I can live without Outside. right to VOTE THE DECEMBER-JANUARY LSUE THE ZEPHYR WILL BE ON NEWSSTANDS: NOVEMBER 22, 2002 _ OF i ea) alge Os | = alll = 1 Peas 4 Hi cl e AE | en Das —— a = ” N. ot J just : one of the guys” Vote BILL SCHULTZ Grand County Attorney — November 5 PAID FOR BY COMMITTEE TO ELECT BILL SCHULTZ a A Se a a RE a a a a a a la a SA a a ee a a a a 259.1001 Full Line of Caretaker Services Independent Home Inspection Services IS NOT A TRAIL you walk off Gil. tease Moab, UT 84532 JOHN HARTLEY Beside the text (see photo) is a traditional circle with a slash across the symbol, in this case, a footprint, which to almost any park visitor, suggests it is illegal to walk anywhere in the park except on designated trails. But that’s not true, and at the August 26 meeting, NPS administrators made it clear that the signs are intended to discourage but not ban backcountry hiking by individuals. Still, whether by accident or design, two of the only pullouts that do not have one of these signs are the two "trailheads” that the commercial canyoneering company uses to access the backcountry. Why would the NPS not discourage off trail use at these locations? Nowhere else are the impacts more severe. Some consistency from Arches National Park in the | application of its own rules would improve its credibility right now. When Property Services 23 South 100 West a |