UtahOutsider’s kind of Surveillance
The poor word ‘surveillance,’ like ‘sequester’ and ‘social,’ has been forever ruined by white boxes at every intersection and black, inverted domes in every store and office. Nowadays, folks don’t consider the Original Surveillance, a heartening act I see performed: – by the deer looking […]
Read more→UtahOutsider at Outdoor Retailer
How odd to be inside all week. At UtahOutsider, it goes against the grain. This week, however, was spent entirely indoors, horseless, dogless, trail-less. Small sacrifice for what will be gained for our readership! Specifically we were at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt […]
Read more→UtahOutsider at Outdoor Retailer
How odd to be inside all week. At UtahOutsider, it goes against the grain. This week, however, was spent entirely indoors, horseless, dogless, trail-less. Small sacrifice for what will be gained for our readership! Specifically we were at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt […]
Read more→Eco Lips trailblazes again
It was something nagging at Eco Lips president Steve Shriver for years as he traveled the world for the purest ingredients and climbed to the pinnacle of quality, fair trade, and sustainable production: All those excellent ingredients were still going into a plastic tube. So […]
Read more→Crows and Wildlife Watchers lose big
You can’t play if you don’t pay the ante or even have a seat at the table. That’s what wildlife advocates and bird watchers learned at the 7th and final public hearing on Utah crow hunting. Despite overwhelming public condemnation and apparent lack of supportive […]
Read more→Crows and Wildlife Watchers lose big
You can’t play if you don’t pay the ante or even have a seat at the table. That’s what wildlife advocates and bird watchers learned at the 7th and final public hearing on Utah crow hunting. Despite overwhelming public condemnation and apparent lack of supportive […]
Read more→Crow Hunt Quandary, Part Two
Last month, the simmering tension between diverse wildlife interests came to a boil as birders, nature lovers, and photographers squared off with hunters and the Wildlife Board. At stake, the future of Utah’s crow population. The Board voted to initiate a crow hunt for the […]
Read more→Crow Hunt Quandary, Part One
To understand the current brouhaha surrounding Utah’s pending crow hunt, it helps to know about the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. The model was referred to several times at the Utah’s Wildlife Board public hearing, where the board voted 3-2 in favor of the […]
Read more→Trail Trash Talk
Wilderness ethics meant “clean up after yourself” to me, decades ago. Back then, family “vacations” usually had something to do with trail maintenance. My dad was president of the Maine Appalachian Trail Club and led scores of service outings. Us kids were charged with clearing […]
Read more→Utahns Not Stressed, evidence shows
I stumble into this low cost hair-cutting place in Sandy because I have a coupon and because it’s next to another store, for which I have an even better coupon. I’m expecting savings. I’m not expecting a bizarre, Coen-brothers scene where something crazy happens and […]
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