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Show THE ZEPHYR/ APRIL-MAY 2005 commitment. It gets more difficult each year to embrace a ‘lost cause’ that I can still feel good about. But Glen Canyon is still one of them. And who knows...as we motored out of the Cathedral, we were already aware that this year’s Spring Runoff will be -massive and that the reservoir will rise at least 30 feet, perhaps 50, maybe more. If the scientists are wrong, believe that’s happened before, this may be Cathedral Desert’s one brief moment to see the light of day. ' ButI will take comfort in knowing that she really is there, “in liquid storage,” waiting for an enlightened to let her shine again. and I in the down future THE BATTLE OVER UTAH WILDERNESS CONTINUES....April 2025 It’s difficult to believe but both opponents and proponents of a Utah BLM Wilderness bill have been fighting over legislation for more than 40 years, and some wonder if this impasse will ever be overcome. IN THIS ISSUE OF ‘THE ZEPHYR VOLUME 17 NUMBER1 But Scott Groene, longtime director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) said today at a sparsely attended press conference, that SUWA and the Utah Wilderness Coalition were on the verge of a major breakthrough by finally offering a wilderness bill acceptable to Congress. “We believe that after our latest citizens’ inventory, we have a real handle on the wilderness that’s still out there.” Groene told a stunned audience that the inventory reveals more than 46 million acres of available wilderness in Utah. 5...REPORTING from the CRAWL SPACE of HISTORY notes from the desk of Ned Mudd "The DiIMformation Age" 6...THE ZEPHYR SALES PITCH & 2005 BACKBONE REPERTORY Co. “Yes,” Groene replied to questions, “ 1 am well aware that _the number entire state, impediment other states is more but we to this that are than the total amount of acreage in the really don’t believe that should be an bill. We simply included properties in owned by Utah residents.” Rod Decker, the senior correspondent for KUTV 8...LOSING SOLITUDE "Shrew's by MARTIN MURIE World" in Salt Lake City asked if it was true that SUWA includes Temple Square in its wilderness inventory. “That is mostly true,” Groene said guardedly, “but we are going to allow some cherry stemming of Temple Square sidewalks and we are fairly certain the Temple itself does not have all the components for wilderness....we just don’t think there’s enough solitude in the Celestial Room.” ey = TaN MARGLE GORGE Meanwhile, anti-wilderness advocate Brian Hawthorne, former director of AccessUSA and the leader of the Blue Ribbon Panel for Open Access offered his organization’s own proposal at a similarly near-empty press conference in Cedar City. “Our people have been out there on their ATVs and we've gone up one side of the state and down the other, and we’ve been able to identify 317 acres of real wilderness. That’s what our inventory says.” Hawthorne identified the inaccessible pinnacles of numerous rock spires and monuments throughout the state, including several well-known NEWS FROM THE FUTURE! No one can accurately predict the future, whether it’s the river flow of the Colorado River or the future of Moab...but it’s fun tospeculate. Reviewing the current news of the day, several ‘visions of the future’ come to mind. I can almost see climbing rocks near Moab, Utah as “possibly having wilderness characteristics ...we couldn’t get our ATVs up them, so they must be wilderness. Otherwise we stand by our count.” In the early 1990s, pro- and anti-wilderness forces lined up along respective acreages of 5.4 million acres versus 1.3 million acres. Today that gap has grown significantly. Has this gap inflamed the public? A Dan Jones poll in the Deseret News says not. Of the 1345 Utah citizens polled over the wilderness issue, 76% replied, “Don’t care” or “Don’t know enough to answer.” the headlines---20 years from now... “STILES ROAD?” TALK ABOUT BAD KARMA resident of Laughlin, picture. I’d put together enough frequent flyer miles for another free ticket to Australia and I spent a lot of time this winter wandering the back roads of WA. I love exploring maps almost as much as the ride itself and I spotted a ‘familiar’ dirt road near the peaceful coastal Nevada, was ordered by a Nevada intense. Tanner, known for his spirited, ‘tell-it-like-it-is-and-tohell-with-everybody-who-disagrees-with-me’ approach to politics won both enemies and admirers during his brief reign as an elected representative in Grand County. “Well,” recalls former councilperson Langianese, “you always knew where you stood with Rex and he always knew where he stood with me...of course, sometimes he stood right over me and when the yelling got too up close and personal, I just wish someone would have offered him a set of ear plugs.” an excited coming years. Once again...God is screwing with me. 14...LAKE POWELL: 'ONE TRICK PONY' By Dr. Richard Ingebretsen The latest update from the Glen Canyon Institute 16...0UT OF THE BLUE: The Return of CATHEDRAL IN THE DESERT An icon of Glen Canyon emerges from the shrinking reservoir....PLUS "How the Cathedral got its name" 18...WHITE CANYON: By Tom McCourt 1959 20...1T COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE? What the Bureau of Reclamation had planned for the Colorado River. 25...REEL WORDS...for the Reel World like a rented mule!” The best lines from the greatest Westerns. Now a Regular Feature... LITTLE BIG MAN A brief scuffle ensued which was subsequently stopped by two casino security guards. Both Tanner and the unidentified twerp were charged with creating a public disturbance. Tanner was required to pay a fine and undergo mandatory management therapy. However, the judge warned Tanner that further outbursts would not be tolerated. The judge hinted that new anger management 27...DEPUY! John's a DAD at 75! Our congratulations to John & Isabelle. medications, recently made available, would be the next step PAGE3 DESERT...1964 BuRec/NPS 1946 map of plans for the Grand Canyon. spilled a pale ale on Tanner’s keno apron. Tanner was heard to shout, “Do that again, you little twerp and Ill drop you are, but what am 1?” ATHONALTS| 21...CLINGING HOPELESSLY to the MAPS... customer in correcting Mr. Tanner’s emotional problems. “The Court believes you are a menace to society,” said the Judge, to which Tanner replied angrily, “That’s what YOU fale Wai. town of Kalbarri, north of Perth...it had my name on it. Perfect, I thought. So I traveled up to Kalbarri, careful to . stay off the main highways and away from the road trains, looking forward to the peace and quiet of the tiny town at the mouth of the Murchison River. There, just a few miles down the coast from Kalbarri was ‘Stiles Road’...it’s the gateway to the biggest housing development to hit the north coast in years. And just across from Stiles Road? Coming soon, the _ Kalbarri ECO-LODGE....they expect tourist visitation and second-home construction to increase exponentially in the Tanner, now a keno dealer at Bob’s Casino in Laughlin, 26, 2024, when 2 By Philip Hyde Just a short note about this issue’s “Take it or Leave it” faced numerous anger management problems over the years. His latest outburst stems from an incident at the casino on December WM . 13...CATHEDRAL in the an excerpt from Tom's excellent history of a lost time. FORMER MOABITE ORDERED TO SEEK ‘ANGER MANAGEMENT THERAPY FOR RECORD 27™ TIME Former Grand County Councilman Rex Tanner, now a Circuit Court judge to seek ‘anger management therapy’ for a record 27" time, according to the “Laughlin Daily Herald.” Moab residents may recall Tanner’s first publicly recorded angry outburst and abusive comments, aimed at fellow Councilperson Joette Langianese, during a regularly scheduled Council meeting in 2005. Council chairman Jerry McNeely canceled the meeting when the vitriol became too = 28...SILVER BULLETS with SCOTT SILVER This issue is for Bailey... Mountain Bike leaders show their true colors on wilderness. 30...FEEDBACK: The Readers Respond |