The Desert Sage
JANUARY 1994 **Our 53rd Season** 229
Ron Jones

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."
THE EDITOR

Photo by Sylvia Kenney
 
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