On issues of industrial recreation, green groups say too little.
Items by Jim Stiles
Making Moab a tourist destination has environmental impacts, often ignored.
It's time we took responsibility for the hateful rhetoric now commonplace on both sides of every issue.
Utah will still be fighting over wilderness 20 years from now.
President Jim Stiles would tell the nation that it is past time we started living within our means – both economically and environmentally.
Jim Stiles remembers Utah’s historic Dewey Bridge,
which was destroyed by a fire recently.
Jim Stiles inveighs against the kind of expensive,
manufactured outdoor thrills that are advertised on the
Internet.
Jim Stiles scoffs at the notion of saving the planet by
buying so-called “green” products.
Jim Stiles mourns the death of a good friend, a man who
loved Moab, Utah, for its diversity.
The writer recounts the joys of minor flash flooding at
Arches and notes that rains once again flooded a road inside the
park
The writer says children have lost the ability to play in
the outdoors
The writer slows down, saves gas and finds less road
rage
The writer doesn't appreciate the prowess of a climber of
Delicate Arch in Arches National Park
The writer says the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has
the all the money it needs to expand its reach
In the wake of a confrontation over a camping fee that
ended in a tourist’s death, a former park ranger remembers a
frightening incident from his own career
The writer tries to understand what made a park ranger
kill a tourist who refused to pay a fee
The writer says Delicate Arch barely escaped a glue-based
makeover
Utah’s drought gives proof that Glen Canyon’s
Cathedral in the Desert is still in liquid storage underneath Lake
Powell
The writer sees a magnificent canyon buried by Lake
Powell, briefly revealed by drought
The writer thinks Westerners both new and old hobble
themselves with prejudice and hypocrisy
Old Westerners and New Westerners are equally hypocritical
when it comes to caricaturing each other and not looking at
themselves
The writer explores the strange story of soft porn filmed
for television at a ranch-turned-resort near Moab, Utah
The writer praises a Utah man for keeping an ancient
Native American village safe from vandals for half a
century
The writer ruminates on cows in Utah and finds them more
desirable than a boom economy built on "amenities."
Some folks say environmental activists are depressing
pessimists, but it actually takes an outraged optimist to bring
about needed change
Jim Stiles takes Arches National Park to task for allowing
day-climbers too much leniency.
Jim Stiles confesses he’s mad as hell and wishes
more people would feel the same.
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