High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 11. Recreation calls the shots in Moab http://www.hcn.org/wotr/recreation-calls-the-shots-in-moab Making Moab a tourist destination has environmental impacts, often ignored. No publisher Jim Stiles biking fossil fuel use tourism economy Moab 2012-12-13T15:57:38Z News Article Death of a New Westerner http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16858 Jim Stiles mourns the death of a good friend, a man who loved Moab, Utah, for its diversity. No publisher Jim Stiles Death Jim Stiles Moab Utah 2010-02-05T09:44:14Z News Article Going wild in the city http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17096 It’s not just the butterflies who respond to Linda Hasselstrom’s lavish wildflower garden in Cheyenne, Wyoming. No publisher Linda M. Hasselstrom Outdoor recreation adventure Moab Utah 2010-02-05T09:43:40Z News Article Don’t book my adventure, please http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17091 Jim Stiles inveighs against the kind of expensive, manufactured outdoor thrills that are advertised on the Internet. No publisher Jim Stiles Outdoor recreation adventure Moab Utah 2010-02-05T09:43:38Z News Article Dewey Bridge: In memoriam http://www.hcn.org/issues/373/17776 Jim Stiles remembers Utah’s historic Dewey Bridge, which was destroyed by a fire recently. No publisher Jim Stiles Jim Stiles Dewey Bridge Colorado River Utah development Moab historic bridges 2010-02-05T08:39:58Z News Article Moab: On the horns of a recreation dilemma http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15538 Some of the residents of the Moab, Utah, area are losing patience with out-of-control off-highway recreation, and looking to the BLM to bring things under control No publisher Jodi Peterson Public Lands BLM Off Road Vehicles Off-highway vehicles off-road vehicles dirt bikes motorbikes four-wheelers outdoor recreation multiple use Curtis Rozman ranchers backcountry use land management tourism Moab Utah Audrey Graham Dave Cozzens Kiley Miller John Rzeczyck 2010-02-05T09:24:54Z News Article Colorado River kisses a toxic mess good-bye http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15469 The Department of Energy finally agrees to move the Atlas uranium mine tailings pile away from Moab, Utah, and the flood risk of the Colorado River. No publisher Matt Jenkins Pollution Uranium Moab Utah Atlas Minerals Corporation Atlas tailings pile uranium mining Colorado River water pollution radioactive waste mine tailings mining waste Bill Hedden Grand Canyon Trust Energy Department Bill Richardson Spencer Abraham Samuel Bodm 2010-02-05T09:24:30Z News Article Nostalgia is a moving target http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16322 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 No publisher Paul Larmer Media Communities in Transition Jim Stiles Canyon Country Zephyr Moab Utah nostalgia aging New West Old West media small town newspapers Arches National Park Ed Abbey Paonia Colorado editors writers environmentalists wilderness preservation conservation groups develop 2011-12-05T23:55:08Z News Article 'Clinging hopelessly to the past' http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16321 In his determination to cling, however hopelessly, to Utah’s past, Canyon Country Zephyr founder Jim Stiles has taken on miners, ranchers, developers, mountain bikers and – most recently – some of his fellow environmentalists No publisher M. John Fayhee Advocacy Groups Environmental Media Communities in Transition Jim Stiles Canyon Country Zephyr Moab Utah Arches National Park Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire small town newspapers independent media curmudgeons eccentrics hermits controversialists Brave New West writers editors publishers National Park 2011-11-11T22:17:47Z News Article You ain’t from around here, are you? http://www.hcn.org/issues/344/16955 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. No publisher Brian Kevin wilderness Moab Communities in transition growth Country Zephyr sprawl Utah tourists development mountain bikes Jim Stiles demographics small towns degradation New West newspaper publishers land use and planning changing communities population rural West Canyon Brave New West Ed Abbey 2010-08-06T22:43:07Z News Article His playground pulls fun hogs off the publiclands http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15725 Jeremy Parriott is working with friends to create a 320-acre extreme-sports playground near Moab, Utah, to give four-wheelers and others a place to play off the public lands No publisher Jodi Peterson Off Road Vehicles Jeremy Parriott Area BFE extreme sports Moab Utah public lands outdoor recreation rock climbing off-road vehicles four-wheeling mountain bikes Kiley Miller Adrien Brody Moab Times-Independent Bruce Bunker San Juan County 2012-03-30T21:43:30Z News Article