Results for keyword: Ed Abbey
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Billboard corporations and other big industries make their own rules
Burning down billboards isn't a good idea, but can a citizen fight the corporate power behind the big signs?
by Ray Ring, Jan 22, 2012 -
A prodigal son is honored by his hometown
Controversial writer Dalton Trumbo returns to his hometown of Grand Junction, Colo. -- in a bronze bathtub.
by Andrew Gulliford, Mar 10, 2011 -
The Terrain of This Ambition
A writer wrestles with the huge shadows cast by the men and women of “Literary Utah.”
by Christopher Cokinos, Sep 05, 2010 -
Slobs at Lake Powell foment a revolt
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 19, 2010 -
Monkey wrenchers keep on keeping on
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 -
You ain’t from around here, are you?
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 -
Hits and missives from Cactus Ed
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 -
One war that's worth the fight
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 -
Nostalgia is a moving target
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 -
A long walk into hope
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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