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Show 1 Sierra Club want to do, lode up this great land by declaring vast tracts "wilderness. drive guide in and around Already, in my ten yean as a backcountry four-wheat i seen and National Arches I six have Paries, : .w' Canyonlands jeep camps closed, two in r w ; 1,. Horseshoe Canyon, one in Elaterite Basin and three camps in Salt Creek, but this is only ilL fT the tip of the iceberg. If the "Red Rock Wilderness Act", H.R. 1500 goes through I'll be telling a whole lot more "used to go" stories. This act will lock up 8.5 million acres! There wasn't a single valid reason to dose these jeep camps. These camps were closed vw u wnv w . WM JK?1 b i l,f HU kJ fej simply because they were used by "jeepen", people considered the incarnation of evil by the environmental extremists, but this is a blatant bald faced lie; the fact is, four wheel .. Ai. .......... Aimmiu drives are how you get around this vast and arid country. So what we have here is a mean spirited war against pieople the extremists don't like! This narcissistic intolerance of pieople Dear Mr. Stiles clones of themselves is ridiculous and dangerous. who are not knee-jer- k Upon reading the latest issue of your publication. The Canyon Country Zephyr, a Witness the lies in the "Canyon Country Watchdog" column of the AugSepit Zephyr. raging flam? of indignation has been lit within me, a calling as it were, to bring to Ught a Scott Groene claims jeep use in Salt Creek was "devastating the riparian ecosystem". This situation that can no longer be tolerated by the reading public Normally I find your was categorically untrue. I know because I've been up that canyon at least one hundred Infantile illustrations, and biased particular brand of soap box posturing, times the last ten years. Salt Creek was doing just fine, but the hysterical and hyperbolic scribblings to be, if nothing else, uninspiring and hardly worthy of my response. I have no lies told by SUWA have succeeded. The canyon is now die private playground of goals toward small town celebrity, nor do I have any desire for any public recognition environmental extremists. whatsoever of my now obviously needed commentary about a situation that could only be The fact is that wildlands of Southern Utah do not belong to the arrogant and cynical deemed critical at this point leadership of SUWA and the Sierra Club, but to the American pieople (at least for now). The matter at hand, which by now should be quite apparent to you, is the traditional As a young Karl Marx wrote most eloquently in his "Economic and Philosophical Zephyr "Letter Of The Month". Not any particular letter mind you but simply the award Manuscripts", "You are what you do", so it follows that if you are attempting to steal the itself. I can no longer ignore the careless erosion of a time honored tradition in Moab wonderful red rock wildlands of Southern Utah by lying about it, then you are a liar and journalism. While the criteria you have established for selecting the honoree has rightfully a land thief. This is just what SUWA and the Sierra Club are. Liars and land thieves. remained a mystery to legions of faithful readers, the award has become a farce. Some k land rapier, as the By the way, these views are not being expressed by some issues of the Zephyr neglect the award entirely and the very mention of the award by name extremists like to characterize the oppiosition, but by a college educated guide, naturalist has become a lie or at the very least, an editorial faux ps that I for one consider and life long environmentalist nauseating. I'm particularly bothered by the extremists when they claim to be for "education". This Come on Jim!!!! think about it!!!! "Letter of the Month"!!!! Does your rag even come out comes from someone who really is an educator about the desert, it's how I've made my once a month anymore???? I DON'T THINK SO!!!! Surely we deserve two honored letters living for ten years. per issue, appropriately labeled as to which month they represent!!!! Or would two free These pieople can not be for education because it would necessarily undermine their subscriptions break the bank, you shameless, penny pinching, Scrooge of a man? Please in agenda. Anytime these radicals use the word "educate", substitute the word "deceive" and the interest of. truth, honor and journalistic integrity, make an effort to be more faithful in you'll be closer to the truth. bestowing this honor, or at the very least change the title of the award to accurately reflect I could go on forever repiudiating spiedfic lies told by the extremists because they are your lazy efforts of awarding it, alas but so consistent, in deed. These pieople have skillfully applied lessons taught by great I hope you take this letter in the spirit it is intended. You have an opportunity to twentieth century liars like Goebbels and Stalin. In fact, they represent to me the most evil refocus on the calling which seems to have eluded you. The choice is yours, are you a aspiects of modem society, implementing a program of systematic deception through journalist of inspiration, or simply a small town hack. outright lies and misinformation. So you see, environmental extremists aren't protecting this desert from our big bad Best Wishes, Your Friend, society, but are doing just the oppioslte, using their talents to impiose their arrogant and Darren Vaughan cynical views on the rest of us. By locking up this land, they are robbing the pmblic of Moab something precious and priceless, their freedom, and actually imposing on this desert all their own socially patterned pathologies instead of saving the desert from them. pa. Please, please Jinu.consider your respxmse to this my heart felt plea carefully. Many Mr. Stiles, the editor and piublisher of this papier, proclaims on his front piage to be have been die long nights I have spent outside your small isolated writing studio anxiously "Hopielessly clinging to the Past;" then why does he enthusiastically supipiort the final padng getting angrier and angrier as I watch you write and wonder, how can HE not of what little remains of the wild west? I guess he prefers the restricted and destruction know. For the love of God, help me silence the voices... end my suffering!!! unfree future envisioned by the leadership of SUWA and the Sierra Club. From my lifelong study of history and humanist philosophy, this two thousand five Editor's Note: OL..OKI You made your point. Your damn polemic is the new Letter of the Month. hundred year old gem from Kung Tse, known in the west as Confucious, seems to apiply. But Darren.. ore you really peering in my windows late at night? Kung Tse was asked by a student what was the first thing he would do if made empieror. He replied that the first task he would like to accomplish would be the "rectification of names", in other words the name of something should reflect accurately what that thing is LETTERS TO FEEDBACKureprioicd a in reality. WhcMncrcJsTIUcCou b If one ponders this, it has huge ramifications, especially in our modem society, where ensscsjEst) complimcntjry ooc ycirsubscriptioo our thoughts and feelings are largely prescribed and manipiulated by the mass media. Obviously, Kung Tse was a man of integrity, and just as obviously, the leadership of Dear Editor, SUWA, and the Sierra Club are not The leaders of these groups only view mankind RE: The Betrayal of the Environmental Movement through the prism of our capitalist society; this explains their ubiquitous cynicism and the last this resultant belief that we are unable to care for the land. One must b able to understand the great It never ceases to amaze me, why people come here and want to make no with a came from, place horrible like all the wild and free place just places they Continued on next page.. freedom. But this is just what the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) and the P' - yUVAWA W,WWWMVWW.W.VJ ir ;oW('yw.v.wwA' t. ! n - J el VK vn 'ic; n - 3 .V.WAV.V.V.'.W.V.V.V 1 V m . fc- !b-- g, red-nec- RROWNTROUT PUBLISHERS P.O. Box 280070 San Francisco. CA 94128-007- Browntrout was founded in 1986 as a book and calendar publisher. 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