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Show PAGE 25 THE ZEPHYRDECEMBER 1994 reverence and respect for their right to be free, to participate in free enterprise. They are in their "70's and 8ffs now. People who were children during WW II will probably have dial same understanding of citizen's rights. Today they are somewhere in their 50's and 60's. That leaves die rest of us, die baby boomers and younger. We are placed in the position of having to think this freedom thing out for ourselves. I don't think it's too difficult a concept Sand Flats is a good example of license. And it's the thirty- - and who are being irresponsible up there. If us youngpr generations were encouraged to be more maybe we would understand more quickly about what it means to soil our own bed. Does my generation know I don't think so. what is in its own Those who abuse their rights through ignorance need to be educated. I don't care whether they're backpackers, or jeepers, or mountain climbers or cattlemen. Those acting irresponsibly because they think it is fun need to be taught a lesson. But does any of this mean that the public should be denied access to public lands? That doesn't make any sense, to take everyone's . rights away because of the abuse of some. forty-somethin- gs from self-sufficie- nt, self-intere- st? A WILDERNESS OF MEANINGLESS PRESERVATION In past years I have written many articles for the Zephyr dealing with my strong and use beliefs. The relevant pros and cons were aired at that time. ' After a while, I decided I wasn't going to change SUWA or most radical environmentalists one to me that we no speaky the same language. I decided the public could whit It was listen to SUWA in the Watchdog column and decide for itself. I will always care about the state of nature; of world-wid- e pollution, of endangered species. st I hate big business because it becomes unbalanced, no longer caring about the of individual people as it focuses more and mare on the acquisition of money and power. If government would only encourage small businesses rather than large conglomerates. But I still call SUWA's 5 million acres of new wilderness pretty irresponsible. With a Republican-controlled Congress, I hope the Utah delegation will manage now to get the 1 million acre wilderness bill passed quickly. We already have so many millions of acres of public land set aside for preservation, a previously futile attempt to protectwhat? In American, the last vestiges of ecological balance were destroyed more than a hundred years ago. Wilderness cannot be preserved Preservation means death, because you cannot preserve something without creating stagnation. You can never go back. I'd like to be done with foe wilderness issue, one way or foe other. It appears to me that other problems need to be worked on. Environmentalists need to get over thinking that small businessmen who were bom into or built up their own businesses in the areas of cattle ranching or mining or oilwell drilling or sawmilling are their natural enemies. And does every environmentalist out there really know, like SUWA does; that only morons enjoy hunting or 4 wheel driving? All of man's activities on this planet are as inherently "natural" as the activities of foe plants and animals. His irresponsible activities while pursuing free enterprise should be discouraged Most of it occurs through ignorance. But environmental extremism is just as irresponsible as industrial pollution. salt lake anti-wildern- ess - pro-multip- self-evide- le nt city self-intere- jig a 0 CALL TOLL-FRE- E 800-748-48- 87 COATING SOON TO SALT LAKE! Our annual winter inversion is on the way. In fact, by ffse time you read this, if may already be here! THE BAD POET'S CORNER: (reader contributiont encouraged) ' Reality is foe south wind an my free and foe sudden WILL IT FALL OVER sway I'll never forget feeling from inside my wheel-perchhouse trailer and what I can hear STILL PRODDING and pushing and moaning against the walls ed from inside my now permanently no longer swaying but firmly placed axle's removed not ever going anywhere on the ground house trailer except in bits and pieces unless the wind CONTINUES TO GET WORSE EACH YEAR tom to bits and pieces can I ever relax in this place called Spanish Valley? DDDD Please attend a benefit for THE AVALANCHE FORECAST CENTER December I T at &30 PAT at Hie Rio Band to be announced later Paul Swanstrom's MOUNTAIN FLYING SERVICE SCENIC FLIGHTS Office CHARTERS at 321 N. Main in the Navtec Bldg. (801) 2 59-80- 50 |