There’s even a shower stall and a flush toilet with a dead rat in the bowl. The gas comes from two steel bottles in a shed outside the water comes by gravity flow from a tank buried in a hill close by. But we’ve got all the indispensable conveniences: gas cookstove, gas refrigerator, hot water heater, sink with running water (if the pipes aren’t frozen), storage cabinets and shelves, everything within arm’s reach of everything else. Once this thing gets going the place warms up fast, in a dense unhealthy way, with a layer of heat under the ceiling where my head is and nothing but frigid air from the knees down. Cold as a tomb, a jail, a cave I lie down on the dusty floor, on the cold linoleum sprinkled with mouse turds, and light the pilot on the butane heater. The mice are silent, watching me from their hiding places, but the wind is still blowing and outside the ground is covered with snow. He cannot be held responsible for any of the opinions expressed herein, but he is responsible for much of what understanding I have of a country we both love. Bates Wilson of Moab, Utah, who might justly be considered the founder of Canyonlands National Park. Pre-eminent among those I have known personally is Mr. This I attribute not to the administrators of the Park Service - like administrators everywhere they are distinguished chiefly by their ineffable mediocrity - but to the actual working rangers and naturalists in the field, the majority of whom are capable, honest, dedicated men. As governmental agencies go the Park Service is a good one, far superior to most. ![]() I wish to point out therefore that the Park Service has labored under severe pressure from powerful forces for many decades and that under the circumstances and so far it has done its work rather well. Even the Government itself has not entirely escaped censure. Regrettably I have found it unavoidable to write some harsh words about my seasonal employer the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, United States Government.
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