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Show THE ZEPHYR/ APRIL-MAY 2008 connotes the natural dignity of an individual who bows before no man, the kind that can be found in wild places, is what the deep ecologists are really talking about when they start muttering about “soul.” For most of us, a few days a year spent flatulating with impunity; free from the suffocating influence of a pettifogging, dictatorial office manager is enough to cleanse what Reese se remains of our shrunken, domesticated little souls. I am sure that, for such a purpose, America possesses enough of what passes for wilderness. Yet, I wonder, what about the 10 MINUTE OIL CHANGE CENTER feral kind of wilderness, the savage kind? Any place that abides under the rule of law and the power of an appointed magistrate is not a wild place, not in the truest sense of the word. Are you floating the Grand Canyon, after waiting two years for your permit application to be approved? You aren’t anywhere close to the wilderness. Do you have a shotgun pointed at your head, and is someone asking you to squeal like a pig? Well ....... now you're in the wilderness! Home of the often imitated but never duplicated FULL SERVICE OIL CHANGE Lawlessness makes most of us uncomfortable, but it is the very essence of wilderness. A wilderness is nothing if it is not Anarchy diffused across an expanse of territory. A Fast Friendly Service is GUARANTEED and NO appointment necessary lifeline, no matter how tenuous, either electronic, or legal, or one merely of confident as- sumption that one has the protection and blessing of a higher human (or divine) authority, is enough to place us in our own neighborhood, nestled safely in our comfort zone. But if we cross a line where help cannot be expected or summoned, where familiar laws and social standards no longer apply, where the only law is that of one’s own wits, that is the line of demarcation between the civilized world and the wilderness. Of course, that line exists nowhere on a map. One cannot enter the wilderness by the mere passage of a signpost. The frontier between the wilderness and something infinitely more civilized lies within us, at the crossroads of fear and courage, at the place where our desire for the safe and familiar parts ways with our ache for freedom and discovery. All Major Oil Brands * Trangmission Flush Radiator Power Flush * 16 Point Check Fuel Injector Cleaning * Gear Oils * Fuel Filters AND MUCH MORE! Locally Owned and Operated for 13 years 655 S. MAIN 259.6435 8AM-5PM M-F 8AM-4PM SAT Carwash Open 24/7 I sit on my front-end loader, and it sits on the nation’s largest deposit of clean-burning, low-sulfur coal. Had I the ability and inclination, I could scrape a bit deeper, and I’d be in pay dirt, some 62 billion tons of the stuff. The Kaiparowits Plateau is protected though. It lies squarely within the Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument, a vast reserve created by Presidential fiat. Thus, the Kaiparowits is legally preserved from economic development in perpetuity- that is, “as long as the rivers run and the grass grows.” Anyone who thinks that legal words on paper is a form of wilderness protection has a lot more faith in human nature than I do. If anything, that legal protection makes the If we say no to real wilderness on the Kaiparowits, we'll have to deal with it in Camden, in the windswept shacks ~ north of Chadron, in the barrios of Culiacan and among _ the concrete warrens of the Gaza Strip--in all of the places “ where forgotten and discarded people sharpen their cunning in the freedom bestowed by poverty and neglect. Wilderness Medicine of Utah was established in 1993 to teach medical principles for a backcountry environment where there is no medical help available. _ Certain injuries and illnesses are common to backcountry sports and activities. Many of these popular activities include hiking, skiing, rock climbing, mountain biking, and whitewater river running. ane “Wilderness Medicine of Utah offers programs to train and prepare you in_ ' prevention, management, and evacuation techniques for medical problems in the backcountry. These courses are certification programs to foster continued Kaiparowits all the more vulnerable, since the only obstacle to un-protecting it is to mark another piece of paper with different words. As long as this is the only protection for the Kaiparowits, it is only a matter of time before machines.much, much larger than the one l operate are busy tearing the guts out of this place. The harsh realities of economics and overpopulation and political venality have already decreed the future destruction of the Plateau. The reason? It isn’t really wild. But if it were...... This is my modest proposal to save the Kaiparowits. The Kaiporowits Plateau should be designated a free territory, open to anyone as long as they live only by subsistence. No corporate or commercial activity allowed. In return, anyone living there is free from taxes, laws, regulations, or any other civilizing activity. The land and the living belong to anyone with the strength, cunning and will to hold it. Tam sure that in such a case, the Kaiparowits would immediately be populated by the wildest and woolliest of people, characterized by a surly defensiveness of their personal freedom and the tendency to be heavily armed. Within two generations, native biota would flourish along with the new indigenous human populace, and the depredations of city-bred tourists would subside to a trickle of only the most hardy and courageous souls. ~ Why? The inhabitants would be a clannish, backwards, and xenophobic tribe, prone to automatic weapons, the operation of illegal distilleries, and the farming _. learning. sos Our instructors are all certified with the Advanced Wilderness Life Support © (AWLS) certificate or with a WER certificate. They come from the University of Utah School of Medicine or have years of experience with Wilderness Medicine of Utah. WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER COURSES April 28th - May 3rd, 2008 Seats Available..Moab, Utah May 12th - 17th, 2008 Seats Available Springdale, Utah (Zion National Park) June 9th - 14th, 2008 Seats Available Salt Lake City, Utah WEA Course June 27th-29th, 2008 Seats Available Salt Lake City, Utah November 10th - 15th, 2008 Seats Available Springdale, Utah (Zion National Park) of cannabis. Now, try taking the Kaiparowits away from them! . Unfortunately for wilderness, for wildness, for the prospects of liberty and the human soul, I don’t think Americans really want such a place, despite the irony that America used to be such a place. We may desperately need it, but the civilized lust for control will allow us a wilderness in name only. What passes for wilderness shall contain no fear-producing organisms, such as wild humans. It is a wilderness compatible with our comfort zone, but at odds with our inner nature. The real wilderness lies somewhere in our own hearts of darkness. Our wild, feral, savage side will out. If we refuse true wilderness in this country, we'll have it in Waziristan and the Niger delta. If we say no to real wilderness on the Kaiparowits, we'll have to deal with it in Camden, in the windswept shacks north of Chadron, in the bar- rios of Culiacan and among the concrete warrens of the Gaza Strip--- in all of the places where forgotten and discarded people sharpen their cunning in the freedom bestowed by poverty and neglect. Yet, these may be the wild places that emerge as the hope of mankind, of the world. Someday, biologists may discover rare and endangered species amidst the rubble of burned-out and long-abandoned Palestinian refugee camps, where Fatah al-Islam fighters once huddled for protection from a relentless artillery barrage. Or in the shady green tangle of a deserted riverside industrial complex, an animal, once pushed to the very limit of its ability to survive, lolls in relative security amidst the rusting vestiges of an incomprehensible folly. Just as jackals roam the ruins of Babylon, so it may be that in the ruins of our species’ mad quest for Total Global Control Over Every Single Thing, we discover the unconquerable stirrings of a new, free, and wild world. Loch Wade lives in Boulder, Utah. for more information visit oyr website: www. winutah.org When I am fully in the river of life, the moments in fast water lead me into integrity, where heart and mind move together in right action. CS Catherine Shank Advanced Practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy®® Effectively relieves pain while providing body re-education and recovery from injury, surgery, stress. Comfort and ease is key. Phoenix Rising Center 76 So. Main St. Suite #10 259-8123 www nh p b oS com |
