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Show not expect the public to demand establishing concessions in the park, building extensive new roads or greatly upgrading the existing ones. In Moab, Monticello, Green River, Hanksville, you have grocery stores and campgrounds, motels, filling stations, and other services close enough outside the parks to serve the needs of visitors, and the County Commissions and Chambers of Commerce want those visitor services to be private business on private property outside the parks because that is what is best for the local economy. The kind of feedback we get on visitor surveys is overwhelmingly, "Don't change this place." I therefore think it is very unlikely that a public mandate for additional development in an expanded Canyonlands or Arches National Park would come out of the General Management Planning process. 4 Bighorn Express Salt Lake TTLE ITS GETTING CRAZIER! Lance ' They're tearing apart CHRISTIE: What do you see happening with fees and how do you handle the argument that higher fees discriminate against those with lower means? DABNEY: The fee to get into the SE Area Group of parks currently is $10 for a whole carload of people for a week. $10 to get into three park units every day for a week with your whole family, in the scheme of any other thing you do, is a pittance. I have many visitors who say, "$10 is still ridiculously low. If this money is going to go back into taking care of this place, we want to pay." Everyone I talk to says the fee is not going to make a difference in whether or not they come to a park, and mostly the people think the fees are low. According to Representative Jim Hansen and others, the national parks belong to all of us and the national taxpayers should participate in maintaining these best of our natural and cultural and recreational resources. Thus, entrance fees should not, and cannot, fully pay for operation of our parks. CHRISTIE: Conceptually, you can separate the two mandates of the Park Service and finance them differently. The visitor can be expected to pay for the services (s)he consumes enjoying visiting the resource, while the general taxpayer can be expected to pay for the preservation and protection of the resource for future generations, which is a national purpose. One last question. What do you think the Southeast Area Group of parks will look like in the year 2097 7 DABNEY: In this crazy world, everything just changes faster and faster. 1 go back to where I was bom and everything is completely different than when I left As this continues, places that don't change are going to be more and more important They're probably going to be the salvation of our soul and psyche. Thus, in 2097, with the exception of a decent visitors' center and access road into Arches, if Arches looks any different from how it looks in 1997, we will have failed. Canyonlands SERVICE 's-SHU- faster than you can scream "GRIDLOCKI" 15 Let us do the driving. (daily scheduled shuttles between Moab & Salt Lake airport) y k v Christie has lived in Moab for more than with the 12 non-prof- it years and is affiliated Association for the Tree of Life. ATL is bearing the expense of mailing information regarding the Atlas tailings reclamation. contributions can be sent to: P.O. Box 1366. Moab. UT 84532. or cal 1 Tax-deductib- le 259-509- 5. EDWARD ABBEY: A Voice in the Wilderness fifty-seven- ... and then some... poems Balanced under rock Darkness shades the sun now gone I behind to feel the night Under bridge the light does reflect The fleeting glimmer of sun at rest Par there, the arc of night to climb Its shadows hidden underneath Balanced on the edge below fe AVAILABLE AT BACK OF BETOND BOOKS CANYON PRODUCTIONS 5905 Lenox Rd. Bethesda. MD 20817 6 at the Arches To order with a credit card call: Also available at Back of Beyond Books BB organization presents: le I grab hold of holes I see Send check or money order for $19.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handling to: - non-profitab- a collection of d 31S5S53F! a Desert Voices Edward Abbey may be gone, but bis ability to inspire outrage, laughter and passion in the defense of wilderness remain. Now. the author's life and words are captured in an emotion-packeminute documentary. fifty-si- x EDWARD ABBEY: A Voice in the Wilderness is part biography, part tribute. The man who wrote Desert Solitaire and the Monkey Wrench Gang is remembered by his closest friends. Rare film clips, interviews and readings by Abbey, plus one hundred twenty largely unpublished photographs offer an insightful look into the life and philosophy of this figure. writer in the mold of Twain and Thoreau. larger-than-li- STARVING ARTIST PRODUCTIONS ywif ytfqi ,isT 'mjjjjmmm National Park visitor center. .SEVENTEEN and possibly at other randomly scattered stores In Moab. Or send $4.95 plus $1.75 shipping (the handling Is free) to: CHARLES MEKCIER. BOX 43 MOAB, UT 84532 Return the book If you're not happy. (1 want everyone to be happy!) ' j , |