Fighting for the soul of the Sierra Club
[The same story plays itself out over and over again, creativity and courage, imagination and hope, vs. pragmatism and politics, lack of vision and failure of conscience. –Thomas]
By Shane McCammon
(Salt Lake City Weekly, Jan. 9) — Patrick Diehl still hasn’t gotten around
to replacing his front door. Pieces of plywood cover the holes kicked in the
door three summers ago by neighbors upset with Diehl’s environmental
activism. He jokes that it’s a kind of shrine to the green movement in
Escalante, a small southern Utah town that lends its name to one of the most
controversial national monuments in the country — the Grand
Staircase-Escalante, which is the center of a dispute over development and
resource extraction.
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