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Burning down billboards isn't a good idea, but can a citizen fight the corporate power behind the big signs?
by Ray Ring,
Jan 23, 2012
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Controversial writer Dalton Trumbo returns to his hometown of Grand Junction, Colo. -- in a bronze bathtub.
by Andrew Gulliford,
Mar 11, 2011
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A writer wrestles with the huge shadows cast by the men and women of “Literary Utah.”
by Christopher Cokinos,
Sep 06, 2010
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Rather than rail against Lake Powell's mere existence, conservationists should try to restore and protect the landscape that is still there.
by Andrew Gulliford,
Aug 20, 2010
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Ed Abbey's pugnacious spirit lives on in eco-activists like Tim DeChristopher, who quietly sabotaged a Utah BLM energy-lease auction.
by Peter Shelton,
Jul 07, 2010
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In Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed, Jim Stiles rips into the amenity-oriented tourist economy that has transformed his once-beloved Moab, but he offers little in the way of useful alternatives.
by Brian Kevin,
Apr 16, 2007
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In Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an
American Iconoclast, David Petersen assembles some of the
correspondence of Western writer Edward Abbey into an eminently
readable but ultimately unenlightening collection.
by Brian Kevin,
Sep 18, 2006
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In his memoir, Walking It Off,
wilderness activist Doug Peacock tries to make sense of a life
spent dealing with war, fighting for wilderness, and coping with
cantankerous friends like the late Ed Abbey
by Laura Paskus,
Jun 26, 2006
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Curmudgeons like Jim Stiles – owner/editor of
Moab’s Canyon Country Zephyr – have
a lot to teach us about why it is so important for us to cling to
the West that we love
by Paul Larmer,
May 29, 2006
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Bill McKibben’s new book, Wandering Home, is a
hopeful account of a leisurely hike across northeastern America, as
relevant to the West as it is to the East
by George Sibley,
Oct 31, 2005
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