DOCSLIB.ORG

Boatrnans Rovtow

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Boatrnans Rovtow boatrnans quartorly GRAND rovtow CANYON 1i-qRIVER the journal of Grand Can5.'6y1 Ril,er Guides, Inc. GI-JIDtr,S volunre 8 number 4 fall 1995 Kent Frost A Campfire Tale of an Impromptu River TIip Whale Whale tales MTS. BaSS I 995 Kazan Memorial Air Turbulence Kent Frost and cousin leaving Chaffin ranch The Canyonous Legend \\7 /ell, this happened back around 1939, and if anybody's not Condors \ f, / interested, why they don't have to listen, I guess. [group laughs] Y Y In 1938 I made a trip down the San Juan River with Nevills Guano Expeditions. Elzada Clover was on the trip, who had been down the Grand Canyon that same year also, and she wanted to do a trip down the San Juan, so I was able to get on as Spring Flood Flow a boatman on that trip. There were, I think, five boats on that. One San Juan boat and three Folboats... Anyway, after going through that trip, why, the next year come around On Raising Spillways and nothing was happening... I wanted to go on Glen Canyon and I told my cousin he ought to go with me. "!7e could go for a hike across the country... go over to Hite and Of Cataract Canyon then we'll just float from there on down to Lee's Ferry on a raft that we'll make." And he continued on page 23 boatman's qLtarterlu reuieLu Iln* tlavs r:f F;o,xfl ...is published more or less quarterly by and for Grand Canyon River Guides. Y ife is hard lately; not even close ro what mosr Grand Canyon River Guides H of Lrs woul.l call fun. The pressure is on frorn is a nonprofit organization dedicated to -&-.--#every rvhich way, and no one is immune. The winds of change gr-rst ar-rd swirl... the summer of '95 does * Protecting Grand Canyon * not slip gentiy into autlrmn. * Seting the highest standards for rhe river profession * Early September: In rhe pouring rain ar Lees Ferry an * Celebrating the unique spirit of the river communiry * unusual mixture of people stand, paying stunned * Providing the best possible river experience * respects to the memory of our good buddy and classic Ceneral Meerings are held each Spring an..l Fall. o1d Grand Canyon boatman "the !7hale," always the Board of Directors Meetings are held the first Monday of life of the party, who studied his cards, surveyed the , each month. All innocent bystanders are urged to attend. table at large, and abruptly cashed our. \il/e sing "Shall Call for demils. We Gather at the River," followed by "How Great Thou Officers Art." Lightning splits the sky; the rain falls harder. An unspeakable President Lew Steiger sadness hangs heavy in the air. It feels, among other things, Iike the death of an era. Vice President Jeri Ledbetter That same Secretary/teasurer Lynn Hamilton week, 16 Grand Canyon outfitters and the competing public Directors Kim Crumbo send in new applications fclr commercial river permits. Everybody bids on rheir Bert Jones own Bob Grusy company, sorne bid on each other. Mystery players ante Andre Potochnik up with multiple offers, and rumor has it a few are prerty Tim !ilhimey big. The Prospecrus, or call for bids, was theoretically Tom Vail designed to foster competition in a way that r,vill do jr,rstice to the Canyon and somehow provide better long Our editoriai policy, such as it is: provide an open term service. It contains some strange language from a fortrm. We nced arricles, poetry, stories, drawings, phoror, guide'.s perspective, though. Who wrote it, and what opinions, suggestions, gripes, comics, etc. they were really thinking when rhey clid is somewhar Written submissions should be less than 1500 words obscure to us, as is who will acrually award rhe new and, if possible, be sent on a complrrer disk. PC or MAC contracts and what they'll be thinking when they do. format; ASCII files are best but we can translate mosr The spectre of big (or bigger) business looms dark in the programs. Send an SASE for submission guidelines. backgror-rnd. Until the new contracts are awarded, our Include postpaid rerurn envelope if you wanr your disk or entire community will twist in the wind. suhmission returned. Back in D.C., the pendulum keeps moving. The last Deadlines for submissions are rhe 1st of April, January', two icleological swings have been so hard, so fasr, July and October, more or less. Thanks. nobody knows what's next. Rapid, unpredictable change Our of6ce location: 9t/zEast. Aspen, Flagstaf( Arizona is the order of rhe day. A blil making the rounds in Offce Hoursr 10-4 M-!7-F Congress-H.R. 260-consiclers the closing of 315 Phone 5?O17?3.1075 different National Park units that fail ro measlrre up. Fax 5201773-8523 The Grand Canyon isn't one of them, but the basic foundations of the NPS rnay be under the hatcher, Nc\t, Fax l{qimber along with God knows rvhat else. "Government" is a hefty word these days-fraught wirh tension. The worst of it is, more than ever, itt hard to see what's right GCRG has a separate fax line, which should make anymore. The American Dream keeps slipping the phone system work better... we hope. The Mac somehow, but we don't know how to fix it. computer answers the phone; the IBM receives faxes. In Back to that same r.r,eird week in Arizona: krwer theory, anyway. (520) Fax: 773-8523 down on the food chain, the process of guides, ourfitters and plivate boaters co-operatively helping the NPS h,,lelrx-lbcrship write the Commercial Operating Requirements, having sirnmered along all summer, suddenly boils over. The new Pres. at GCRG takes the ti1ler frorn ex-Pres. Gr-ride Members 603 General Members: 658 Murphy and instantly runs full cob aground on the Circulatior-r 2333 shoals of an untimely emotional outbursr. The rocks grand canyorl rirrcr glricles page 2 that took off his lower unit on the way in were the The other direction is harder to see these days, and Coast Guard; the appiication of an urban Health Code much more difficult to describe without sounding kinda to the river; drug testing; a huge pile of paper, growing fruity. About the only way to start toward it is look over ever bigger; and, mainly, a regulatory ethic that seemed your shoulder at the outside world, then sit back and to say that if somebody wasn't there to force commer- think hard about Grand Canyon and oneself and every- cial boatmen into doing a good job, the old rape and body else... then just keep asking "\(/hat's really true? pillage days of the late 60's would've never ended lVhat's really going to be right for this place in the (absent the fear of Big Brother, we'd be passing out future?" It's still subjective, but if you do start traveiing drunk in the middle of the day and drifting unchecked that direction, and keep moving, eventually you get to a into eddies, or burying our human waste in the sand pretty nice place-where everybody sees what a good and stirring the spaghetti with greasy old channel- thing rhis is and how lucky we all are to be part of it. locks). All us guides acknowledge the enormous privilege it is But even if the obstacles are gnarly, and scary to just to live here (and get paid for it). Our outfltters contemplate too deeply (both for the bullshit and the figure out the same thing (plus what a good job we do traces of truth one might find), rhar doesn'r mean for them, and the personal price we pay to do it long you're not supposed to steer around them if it's your enough to get really good at it). The commercial sector tum to lead. And the truth here is, this particular wreck as a whole wakes up and realizes what the best of us- isn't the least bit pretty. Later on it feels abour as suave which to our everlasting credit includes some of our as hanging up in the middle of the Paria Riffle in plain biggest companies (along with a few smaller outfits sight of the whole world; and telling the brand new too)-already figured out a long time ago. lUhich is: the people on your boat "Ok, no big deal. We'll just have a bottom line here is more than just the money. What little lunch and wait for the water ro rise;" then lifting you really get out of this place, and this adventure, is the cooler lid and realizing you've left all the cold-cuts directly proportionate to what you put back in. back in Flagstaff. At which point the thin-lipped execu- Keep heading that way, and pretty soon the people tive sitting toward the front says "there seems to be a who've taken the most out and given the least back problem with this tube under the frame up here, it's start pitching in a little better, and giving a little more losing air." After such a terriflc beginning, the whole than they have in the past. It feels good. They actually '(one trip itself more year of service to GCRG-which like it. The thing starts to snowball. Everybody reaches wasn't looking all that easy anyway) srarrs to crystallize down and finds the best in themselves instead of the as Definitely a Bad ldea.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Wisconsin Yoders
    CHRISTIAN YODER AND LOIS JOTTER – MAKES THE MCCLELLANDTOWN GANG COLORADO RIVER HISTORY Christian Yoder (YR2611a) Most students of American History are aware that in 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell made the On Apr. 13, 1889, an “elderly” Somerset County, PA farmer first known passage through the Grand Canyon. Sixty-nine years named Christian Yoder was tortured and robbed by a band of later, a Yoder (Jotter) girl and a fellow female botanist from miscreants from neighboring Fayette County (He was 65 years old at University of Michigan, were to become the first women to replicate the time). The episode made both regional and national news, and Powell’s feat. Here is the story of that woman. was followed through the capture and punishment of the guilty Lois Jotter was a great-granddaughter of Petter Jotter, a parties. Christian’s descendant Claude Yoder republished one of the wagon maker who immigrated to Butler Co, OH by 1840 and was newspaper reports in 1973, and his son Edwin gave the YNL naturalized in 1848. German historian Karl Joder reported his birth permission to post it on our web site in 1999. Now, Mark and Mayla date as having been 10/24/1819 in Munsterhof, Dreissen, Germany. Yoder have expanded and updated a report on this event, and added In 1938, Lois Jotter and Dr. Elzada Clover, both botanists from the this wonderful photograph of Christian, the original of which is University of Michigan, were members of an expedition which owned by his great-granddaughter, Anna Dora Yoder of Delaware.
    [Show full text]
  • The Magazine of the Grand Canyon Historical Society
    The Ol’ Pioneer The Magazine of the Grand Canyon Historical Society Volume 24 : Number 4 www.GrandCanyonHistory.org Fall 2013 President’s Letter The Ol’ Pioneer The Magazine of the What exactly is “history”? Is it merely the recitation of facts, or a dry, Grand Canyon Historical Society recollection of dates and past events? Does it involve only the recording (or Volume 24 : Number 4 recovery) of information about things that happened a long time ago? Is history Fall 2013 even important in such a modern, well-connected world? I think about these things every time I mention to someone that I am a member of the Grand u Canyon Historical Society. Now and then, someone will look at me sideways as The Historical Society was established if maybe I am “off my rocker” and not yet “old enough” to concern myself with in July 1984 as a non-profit corporation such things. to develop and promote appreciation, I recall my own misconceptions about history when I remember applying understanding and education of the for membership in The Mayflower Society, a group of Mayflower descendants earlier history of the inhabitants and important events of the Grand Canyon. dedicated to cultivating an appreciation and understanding of that seminal event in American history. My reaction upon meeting my fellow members in The Ol’ Pioneer is published by the the Arizona Chapter was shock at their extreme age – I wondered if I might GRAND CANYON HISTORICAL be “too young” to be a member of the group. I soon stopped paying dues, not SOCIETY in conjunction with The wanting to associate myself with such “old folks.” Bulletin, an informational newsletter.
    [Show full text]
  • ELZADA CLOVER—A COURAGEOUS SCIENTIST Dr
    316 CACTUS AND SUCCULENT JOURNAL (U.S.), Vol. 68 (1996), No. 6 the underside, acting like a backbone to give ri• tions, there is little chance to become familiar with gidity. Marginal spines, approximately 2 mm long, it except by studying plants in the Huntington Bo• are almost straight. The original description states tanical Garden Conservatory or in other botanical that the spines curve toward the leaf-base, but in gardens. my experience this is true only of the basal por• This bromeliad has an undeserved reputation tion of the leaf, while from the middle of the leaf for being difficult to grow. It apparently does not the spines begin to hook towards the apex. The do well if kept in 6-inch pots of humusy soil in scaly coating on the leaves has distinct and beau• the humid, warm greenhouse conditions so fa• tiful spine impressions on both the top and the vored by mesophytic Cryptanthus species. In• bottom that look a bit like zippers. stead, C. warasii thrives with warm sunny days, The inflorescence is nestled in the center of the cool nights, and plenty of air circulation, in a 4 or rosette. It consists of about 20 flowers arranged in 5 inch pot filled with cactus-type soil mixed with fascicles of 2 or 3- Spineless floral bracts about 11 about 50 percent pumice or perlite. Frequent mm long, glabrous above and scaly below, equal spring and summer fertilization with a dilute so• the length of the sepals. The petals are white to lution of a balanced fertilizer produces a plant that off-white, slightly longer than the sepals, and re• does credit to the grower.
    [Show full text]
  • Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plant Flora of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument Phase II Report
    Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plant Flora of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument Phase II Report By Dr. Terri Hildebrand Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT and Dr. Walter Fertig Moenave Botanical Consulting, Kanab, UT Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit Agreement # H1200-09-0005 1 May 2012 Prepared for Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument Southern Utah University National Park Service Mojave Network TABLE OF CONTENTS Page # Introduction . 4 Study Area . 6 History and Setting . 6 Geology and Associated Ecoregions . 6 Soils and Climate . 7 Vegetation . 10 Previous Botanical Studies . 11 Methods . 17 Results . 21 Discussion . 28 Conclusions . 32 Acknowledgments . 33 Literature Cited . 34 Figures Figure 1. Location of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in northern Arizona . 5 Figure 2. Ecoregions and 2010-2011 collection sites in Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in northern Arizona . 8 Figure 3. Soil types and 2010-2011 collection sites in Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in northern Arizona . 9 Figure 4. Increase in the number of plant taxa confirmed as present in Grand Canyon- Parashant National Monument by decade, 1900-2011 . 13 Figure 5. Southern Utah University students enrolled in the 2010 Plant Anatomy and Diversity course that collected during the 30 August 2010 experiential learning event . 18 Figure 6. 2010-2011 collection sites and transportation routes in Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in northern Arizona . 22 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page # Tables Table 1. Chronology of plant-collecting efforts at Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument . 14 Table 2. Data fields in the annotated checklist of the flora of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (Appendices A, B, C, and D) .
    [Show full text]
  • The Wild Ones PEOPLE SAID THAT WOMEN HAD NO PLACE in the GRAND CANYON and WOULD LIKELY DIE TRYING to RUN the COLORADO RIVER
    The Wild Ones PEOPLE SAID THAT WOMEN HAD NO PLACE IN THE GRAND CANYON AND WOULD LIKELY DIE TRYING TO RUN THE COLORADO RIVER. IN 1938, TWO FEMALE SCIENTISTS SET OUT TO PROVE THEM WRONG. MELISSA L. SEVIGNY P RO LO G U E he river had cut into the plateau, or else the plateau had risen around the The Atavist Magazine, no. 96 river. No one could say for sure in 1938. But what did it matter how it formed? It was there, this sunset-hued cleft of stone in the high country of Melissa Sevigny is a science writer based in Flagstaff, Arizona, and the author of two books, Mythical River and T Arizona. A warning. A challenge. Under Desert Skies (both 2016). Editor: Jonah Ogles An Englishman who toured northern Arizona that year declared, “Out here is a country Designer: Ed Johnson almost without a history,” a fantastical landscape of weird pinnacles, sheer cli¥s, and Copy Editor: Sean Cooper menacing canyons. He was wrong, of course. The Grand Canyon had a history, printed in Fact Checker: Adam Przybyl Images: Norman D. and Doris Nevills Photograph lines of pink and beige down its mile-deep walls, with trilobites as punctuation. Collection, courtesy of Special Collections, J. Willard Generations of Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Havasupai, Hualapai, Southern Paiute, and Yavapai- Marriott Library, University of Utah Apache had called this place sacred and considered it home. For some of them it was the Acknowledgements: The narrative is primarily informed place of origin, where all humankind arose. by the Lois Jotter Cutter Papers, Cline Library Special Collections and Archives, Northern Arizona University.
    [Show full text]
  • The Whale Foundation Calendar
    TheThe WhaleWhale FoundationFoundation20142014 CalendarCalendar TheThe Whale Foundation Whale provides confidential Foundation access to mental and physical health care professionals and a network of support services designed to restore, promote and celebrate the well being of the Grand Canyon River Guiding Community. Flipped Out for Grand Canyon – is a new book to be published this year. It will exhibit a collection of whitewater photography from Grand Canyon, compiled by Tom Myers and Bronze Black. The book will be a unique repository of some never-before- published photographs of Colorado River runners’ most On Call Help Line 1-877-44 WHALE amazing moments. business line 928-774-9440 P.O. Box 855 Flagstaff, AZ 86002-0855 One Hundred percent of the profits will go directly to Grand Canyon Youth (GCY). The Whale www.whalefoundation.org Foundation is a proud supporter of GCY who’s mission is to give youth an experiential education along the riv- ers and canyons of the Southwest in an effort to promote personal growth, environmental awareness, community involvement, and teamwork among people of diverse backgrounds. We need your help. If you have amazing whitewa- ter photographs of Grand Canyon, like the shots in this calendar, or other super-unique shots of the canyon, we would love to see them. Please send samples to: canyondoc@gmail.com, or bronzeblack@mac.com. Thank you! Curtis “Whale” Hansen Executive Director Dan Hall Flagstaff, AZ River Guide Board of Directors Bronze Black John Napier Flagstaff, AZ Flagstaff, AZ River Guide/Graphic Designer River Guide/Manager Ann-Marie Bringhurst Amy Prince Flagstaff, AZ Flagstaff, AZ River Guide RN/Field Biologist Michael Collier Pat Rose, Ed.
    [Show full text]
  • Observations of Environmental Change in Grand Canyon, Arizona
    U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Prepared in cooperation with the GRAND CANYON MONITORING AND RESEARCH CENTER Observations of Environmental Change in Grand Canyon, Arizona Water-Resources Investigations Report 02–4080 COVER PHOTOGRAPH November 1911. Ellsworth (left) and Emery Kolb displaying native fishes caught in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon during their 1911 expedition (Kolb photograph 5739, courtesy of Special Collections, the Cline LIbrary, Northern Arizona University). Observations of Environmental Change in Grand Canyon, Arizona By Robert H. Webb, Theodore S. Melis, and Richard A. Valdez U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4080 Prepared in cooperation with GRAND CANYON MONITORING AND RESEARCH CENTER Tucson, Arizona 2002 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GALE A. NORTON, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Charles G. Groat, Director Any use of trade, product, or firm names in this publication is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. For additional information write to: Copies of this report can be purchased from: DistrictRegional Chief Research Hydrologist U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey Information Services 1201345 Middlefield Pacific Avenue Road – Suite 600 Building 810 Tacoma,Menlo Park, Washington California 98402 94025 Box 25286, Federal Center http://water.usgs.gov/nrp http://wa.water.usgs.gov Denver, CO 80225-0286 CONTENTS ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Undiscovered to Undiscoverable: Gregory Natural Bridge
    Gregory Natural Bridge onFiftymile Creek, a tributary of the Escalante River. U.S. Geological Survey photograph. Undiscovered to Undiscoverable: Gregory Natural Bridge BY JARED FARMER AMONG ABUNDANT NATURAL SPLENDOR, THE CANYONS OF THE LOWER Escalante River enclose immense arches and bridges. Secluded in a jungle of slickrock, these natural spans attracted minimal attention until midcentury. Not until 1940 was Gregory Natural Bridge effec­ tively—if not genuinely—discovered. The "discoverer" was Norman Nevills, one of the most prominent and most colorful early commercial Mr. Farmer, a student at Utah State University, wishes to thank the helpful staffs of the Hunting­ ton Library and the University of Utah's Marriott Library. Gregory Natural Bridge 101 river runners in the West. Like Glen Canyon of the Colorado River, Nevills's staple run, much of the wilderness of the lower Escalante now lies beneath Lake Powell. Gregory Natural Bridge was submerged by the filling reservoir, easily the largest span lost that way. Its present invisibility belies its past record of human association—with not only Nevills but also surveyors, ranchers, and sundry travelers. Natural bridges, unlike arches, form by stream erosion. Gregory Natural Bridge was not a misnomer. Fiftymile Creek, a tributary of the Escalante, had gnawed through the neck of an incised meander, thereby deserting (for an interval) a rambling path for a direct one. The resulting hole grew to measure approximately 175 feet wide and 75 feet high, dimensions that had room to increase; Gregory Natural Bridge's total height, from cobble streambed to ruddy Navajo sand­ stone roadway, extended about 200 feet.1 A striped patina of desert varnish graced the massive structure.
    [Show full text]
  • National Park Service Centennial Issue
    Sego Lily Summer/Fall 2016 39 (3) Summer/Fall 2016 (volume 39 number 3) National Park Service Centennial Issue In this issue: Unidentified Flowering Object . 2 UNPS News. 3 Chapter News and Events . 4 Utah’s National Parks and Monuments: A Century of Plant Conservation . 6 Noteworthy Discoveries Rare Plant Hunting in Eskdale . 21 New Flatsedge Reports for Utah . 22 Shivwits milkvetch (Astragalus ampullarioides) is a leafy, hollow- stemmed perennial with stems up to 2 feet tall and an elongated inflores- cence of white or creamy, pea-shaped flowers. It is listed at Endangered un- der the US Endangered Species Act and is restricted to barren, purplish- brown clay soils of the Chinle and Moenave formations at less than 10 sites in southwestern Utah. The larg- est population is protected in Zion Na- tional Park, where NPS staff have been monitoring the population and learning how to cultivate the species for more than 10 years. Photo by Cheryl Decker. Copyright 2016 UT Native Plant Society. All Rights Reserved. Utah Native Plant Society Committees Website: For late-breaking news, the Conservation: Bill King & Tony Frates UNPS store, the Sego Lily archives, Chap- Education: Ty Harrison ter events, sources of native plants, Horticulture: Maggie Wolf the digital Utah Rare Plant Field Guide, Important Plant Areas: Mindy Wheeler and more, go to unps.org. Many thanks Invasive Weeds: Susan Fitts to Xmission for sponsoring our web- Publications: Larry Meyer site. Rare Plants: Officers Scholarship/Grants: Therese Meyer Sego Lily Editor: Walter Fertig President: Robert Fitts (Utah (waltola64@gmail.com). Co) Chapters and Chapter Presidents Vice President: Cache: Michael Piep Copyright 2016 Utah Native Plant Society.
    [Show full text]
  • Norm Nevills Norm Nevills Boatman’S Quarterly Review CRMP Update …Is Published More Or Less Quarterly by and for Grand Canyon River Guides
    boatman’s quarterly review the journal of Grand Canyon River Guides, Inc volume 17 number 1 spring 2004 Photo courtesy of Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. Photo courtesy of Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. NormNorm NevillsNevills CRMP Update • Prez Blurb • Protecting Ruins • GCY • GC Lava Dams Medical Control Quandries • Whale Foundation • 2004 Dam Ops Book Reviews • Historic Inscriptions • Thank Yous • One Last Buzz boatman’s quarterly review CRMP Update …is published more or less quarterly by and for Grand Canyon River Guides. he National Park Service (nps) is planning to release the Draft Environmental Impact State- Grand Canyon River Guides ment (eis) for the Colorado River Management is a nonprofit organization dedicated to T Plan (crmp) for public review and comment in May Protecting Grand Canyon 2004. The nps will seek public comment on the Draft Setting the highest standards for the river profession eis once a notice of availability has been posted in the Celebrating the unique spirit of the river community Federal Register. A schedule of public meetings will be Providing the best possible river experience announced following release of the draft. The Draft eis will analyze a full range of reasonable General Meetings are held each Spring and Fall. Our alternatives as well as a draft preferred alternative for Board of Directors Meetings are generally held the first managing recreational use on the Colorado River from Wednesday of each
    [Show full text]
  • The Flora of Rainbow Bridge National Monument
    Sego Lily November 2010 33 (6) November 2010 (volume 33 number 6) The Flora of Rainbow Bridge National Monument In this issue: The Flora of Rainbow Bridge National Monument . 1, 4 Chapter News . 2 Bulletin Board . 3 Trouble for Pando? . 3 Revolutionary New Taxonomy . 14 Utah Botanica: Noteworthy Discoveries: New Mustards for Utah . 15 UNPS Rare Plant List Update 15 Cover: Rainbow Bridge, the world’s largest natural stone bridge, viewed from the south- east in Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Utah. Photo by W. Fertig, September 2010. “This Rainbow Bridge was the one great natural phenomenon, the one grand spectacle, which Shefford had ever seen that did not at first give vague disappointment, a confounding of reality, a disenchantment of contrast with what the mind had conceived. But this thing was glorious. It silenced him, yet did not awe or stun. His body and brain, weary and dull from the toil of travel, received a singular and revivifying freshness. He had a strange, mystic perception of this rosy-hued stupendous arch of stone, as if in a former life it had been a goal he could not reach … Here at last, apparently, was the rainbow of his boyish dreams and of his manhood: a rainbow magnified even beyond those dreams, no longer transparent and ethe- real, but solidified, a thing of ages, sweeping up majestically from the red walls, its iris-hued arch against the blue sky.” - Zane Grey, The Rainbow Trail, 1915. Copyright 2010 Utah Native Plant Society. All Rights Reserved. Utah Native Plant Society Horticulture: Maggie Wolf Sego Lily Editor: Walter Fertig Important Plant Areas: Mindy (walt@kanab.net).
    [Show full text]
  • John Weisheit Collection
    John Weisheit papers, 1871-1992 Overview of the Collection Creator Weisheit, John S., 1954- Title John Weisheit papers Dates 1871-1992 (inclusive) 1871 1992 Quantity 5 boxes, (2.5 linear feet) Collection Number Accn1733 Summary The John Weisheit papers (1871-1992) contain a copy of a manuscript for a book on Cataract Canyon, as well as research materials related to Cataract Canyon, the Grand Canyon, the Green River, and other notable Western rivers. John Weisheit is a wilderness guide for Tag- A-Long Expeditions. He also serves on non-profit boards such as the Canyonlands Field Institute and the Colorado Plateau River Guides. Repository University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah 295 South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860 Telephone: 801-581-8863 SPCreference@lists.utah.edu Access Restrictions Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law. Languages English Biographical Note John Weisheit was born in 1954 in Los Angeles, California. After growing up in Whittier California and Phoenix Arizona, he moved to Moab Utah in 1987. He married Susette Renea DeCoster in 1990. Both are currently employed as Wilderness Guides for Tag-A-Long Expeditions. Their region of specialty is southeastern Utah. Weisheit's great passion is the Colorado River and he has spent much time researching it. He uses the information for writing articles and to teach tour groups. In addition to his guide job, he serves on non-profit boards such as the Canyonlands Field Institute and the Colorado Plateau River Guides.
    [Show full text]