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Show Wsssiswas: SS!:mmwwwww,w be claimed by any "persona." Nobody really knows who coined the name, nor does it matter. Some River Women claim that Backwater is a woman, and they are right! For it is the wisdom that should be of importance here, not the gender, personality or transitory expression of the muse. Eddina Moab, Utah B. In a town that seems to get lost in minutiae, focusing more on garbage and personality vendettas than the important issues, for once, let's hold onto the issue at hand, which is increased taxation (inflation) without adequate input of the citizens that it will affect In a democracy, the citizens should have the right to vote on any tax increases, be they local property taxes or on the State or Federal levels. These decisions should not be made arbitrarily by bureaucrats or agencies within the government. It is time for tax reform, before local. State and Federal agencies get totally out of hand. Bigger, more expensive government is rarely better government and is usually more inefficient. Nobody benefits from inflation, not even the bureaucrats themselves, who one day will find themselves "retired" and on fixed incomes. Everyone's cost of living keeps going up and up, and the pace of living gets faster and faster and more hectic, just to survive. Welcome to LA.! Is this the vision for the new Moab? Is this really progress? The people who really lose out are the working poor and our senior citizens trying to live on fixed incomes. Who knows? Perhaps in the future, the very bureaucrats who created these taxes (including user fees) won't be able to afford to use these clever little parks or even live here. The circle turns. P& Two ambulances rush past on the main road. Various accents and the on heard trail Detritus: A Marlboro filter tip left on the ground at the trail languages 11 am Skyline Arch head. 11:45 am Double Arch Circle the parking areas three times to find a spot Break into a sweat after about two minutes in the closed car, gathering drawing materials and finishing a quick sketch (another part of the plan - sketch rather than shoot pictures). Detritus: A rusted bobby pin lying on the traiL Noon or after More asphalt, more cars, but, for the most part, we beat the crowds and secured a memorable visit with an early start. Time to continue this 3,000 mile anniversary road trip. Next stop: Mesa Verde. Meta Gibbs Cheney, Washington tamaflMStrTTiv WestBgfo Photography Backwater Eddina Moab Dear Zephyr My planning for a visit to Arches National Park took a detour after reading "The Day the Rangers Took Me for a Ride" (AugSept97). Publisher Jim Stiles recounted changes and aberrations encountered during a recent tenth anniversary reunion with his life as a park ranger in Arches National Park. Noting references to vast increases in park visitors over the past decade, I took a mental detour and revised my plans to visit the park This August visit would mark the fourteen anniversary of my first and only previous visit to Arches in 1983. Revising my focus for the '97 tour (part of a family road trip through the southwest), I set out to find collectible artifacts left behind by visitors to the park. Acceptable evidence to "pack out" would be the FIRST sign of commercial human detritus encountered at each site visited in the park. Here's a brief summary of the Shrewsbury PHOTOGRAPHY MOAB -- UTAH - 801 259 7943 Why is a Woolde in my ad? I couldnt Offering forZZSs findings! 822 - 8 am Park Avenue A short asphalt walk ends at a marker warning "primitive trail ahead." The asphalt is new; the "primitive trail" looks like all the paths we walked in '83. A motor home is parked in the lot; the box of chocopuffs has a window seat for the view. No crowds, only one other couple absorbed with each other and seemingly unaware of a landscape caged in silent shadows and backlit by the sun. detritus-fre- e Our Gallery. Impossible to photograph the arch without a border or detail of hikers approaching, resting, or leaving the site. Detritus: A moist towelette (now dry) packet caught in a Mormon Tea shrub. The brand name and directions appear to be in 9 am Delicate Arch Overlook Porfr,?mmiSSi0n Arabic - will try to get a translation from my daughter's friend. A raven announces our arrival on the path, but his call is interrupted has taken a radio. A by an approaching ranger mumbling into a fall at a point beyond the arch - head injury, hearing lost, upset parent needs assistance. Detritus: A frog sticker (Hallmark, 1989) lodged in a low plant. NotKermit A volunteer in the park directs a visitor survey at the start of the traiL The survey asks visitors to measure acceptable levels of crowding on the trail Computerized images record hypothetical traffic patterns - will a visitor be comfortable with one person within speaking distance and 50 visitors several hundred yards away? 10 am Landscape Arch 15-fo- ot ay Slng Photo Visit us at: 750 SOUTH MAIN ST (in the Miller Shopping Center) 3 (801) 259-794- Nelson's Heating & Refrigeration "Serving Moab since 1 962" 1075 BOWLING ALLEY LN. 259-562- 5 QUALITY REALTY 505 N. Main Street 1 or 259-64(801) 7 FAX: (801) 93 259-502- 259-838- Each office is independently owned and operated. THE MAN tell you. a WHO MAKES HOT WATER POSSIBLE. Always call Izzie graphy |
