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THE EDITORS
FAREWELL I hope that you have enjoyed
the SAGE during the last 3 1/2 years. I tried hard to reach out to as many
people as possible and print a variety of stones and news and not just route
descriptions of climbs up the same peaks as we all have climbed and can find in
the peak guide. I am passionately interested in all aspects of our southwestern
deserts and I tried to pass this wide range of my interest to you. And even if
we don't get involved in the political aspects of environmentalism, there are
many, many ways we must practice individual conservation of this fragile
resource. --And I hope a sense of humor showed through once in a while. I
accepted and printed in a timely fashion everything that was sent me. I thought
that by encouraging participation in the SAGE and broadening its coverage that
it would strengthen the DPS. The Jury is still out on that, but we did increase
the number of subscribers (who presumably like to read the articles) and we now
mail many copies out of state including Wisconsin, New York, Pennsylvania,
Canada, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Nevada & Arizona. I want to give
special thanks to those folks who have made the SAGE an interesting paper for
you to read. A partial list of major voluntary contributors of articles and art
include (but not limited to): Mark Adrian, Bill Banks, Lou Brecheen, Bob
Greenawalt, Gail Hanna, Bill Hauser, Dave Jurasevich, Barbara Lilley, lgor
Mamedalin, John McCully, Wes Shelberg, Steve Smith, Dale Van Dalsem, Anna &
Maris Valkass, John Vitz, Louise Werner, Walt Wheelock and Wynne Zdon. Also
thanks to those Leaders who submitted trip write-ups and to the Management
Committee members for their reports. You folks are the ones who keep the DPS
alive & flourishing. I must give the most thanks of all to my wonderful
wife and assistant, Leora, for her countless hours spent in laying out the art
and typing much of the copy. I say goodbye and HAPPY TRAILS to you all with
my favorite quote on the desert by author Tom Lea: "It is a thirsty, bare and
mostly empty country. It is tan not green. It has no softness to evoke ease in
man's spirit. Its richness is space, wide and deep and infinitely colored,
visible to the jagged mountain rim of the world--huge and challenging space to
evoke huge and challenging freedom. A wonderful country."
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THE EDITOR
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