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mily S. Bourne lives in Madison, WI and is an amateur photographer. She is inspired primarily by nature (plants, animals and landscapes), portraits and beautiful light. She took American Gothic 2020 while attending a socially distant birthday party in a park. Asked about the photo she said “I like the image because it captures some of the everyday weirdness of living during this pandemic and some of the everyday beauty too.” ◆

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Your stories and comments needed The next issue is CATALYST’s 400th. We invite your reflections and recollections as we prepare to alter course.

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hirty-nine years ago, when I was 30 years old, some friends and I decided to publish a magazine focused on the paradigm shift in thinking that was happening around the country at that time. The project was launched in December 1981 at a fundraising party so lively and eclectic, for its day, that we briefly entertained the notion of becoming party planners instead.

CATALYST began small, delivering community resources and events pertaining to holistic health/spirituality (then referred to as “new age”) and environmentalism.

Holistic health/spirituality and environmentalism were as far away from each other then as Democrats and Republicans are today. Our aim was to build a bridge, and we did.

Through the decades our focus on community broadened. CATALYST grew in size and impact. We gave many young (and not so young) writers their start. We won lots of awards and continued to have great parties. In 2016 we were the first legacy magazine in the country to become a nonprofit. Now as we near our 40th year, we’re looking at publishing our 400th issue.

The Early Winter edition, premiering in late November, will be our final monthly issue of CATALYST in a magazine format.

We will continue with the emailed

BY GRETA BELANGER DEJONG CATALYST newsletter and the website. Both will feature our Community Resource Directory as well as stories and events relevant to you.

We’ll remain a nonprofit and we’ll continue to carry ads of special interest to our demographic. I will remain involved as a board member and volunteer.

CATALYST was always my vocation. I never thought I would retire.

But this year has made me more practical. There’s a list of common sense reasons why we should end the “print” edition, aka the ISSUU (or “pretty”) version, now.

For one thing: Each month has found us deeper in debt. While we have repeatedly tightened our belts and Covid-19 relief funds have been a godsend, the writing is on the wall. We must seriously downsize.

So John and I are retiring. The rest of the staff is exploring other possi-

bilities. We are giving up our office.

We’re seriously thinking of having our final issue, #400, appear in print.

Details to follow soon in the weekly newsletter.

For #400, I invite you to share your thoughts with other readers: What has CATALYST meant to you over the years? Do you have favorite memories, either from the magazine or a gathering? How have you seen our community grow and change over the last four decades?

Over the past four decades, CATALYST has made my life rich beyond measure. I hope it has enriched your life, as well.

Please send your thoughts directly to me (see below). We’ll print as many comments as we can. With your help, I think #400 just may be one of our best. Thank you! ◆ Greta Belanger deJong is the founder and editor of CATALYST.

For #400, our next and final issue in magazine format, I invite you to share with other readers your comments: What has CATALYST meant to you over the years?

Has the magazine been a catalyst in your life?

How have you seen the holistic community grow and change over the last four decades?

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ENVIRONEWS

BY AMY BRUNVAND We are saying farewell to what we love and why we stay. How can we stay? The landscape of the American West is burning and we are burning,too.

—Terry Tempest Williams

Polly Mottonen

Mourning our fallen: Wind storm topples urban forest

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n intense wind storm that hit northern Utah on September 8 toppled thousands of big, old trees, decimating historic groves in Liberty Park, the Salt Lake Cemetery and the University of Utah. Gusts of up to 112 miles per hour were generated by “down

slope wind” when a blob of cold air on the eastern slope of the Wasatch Mountains flowed over the ridge-top into the Salt Lake Valley.

Since oceans generate weather, extreme weather in Utah is related to tropical storms which are becoming more frequent and more intense.

Reimagine Nature, SLC

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alt Lake City has begun developing a new master plan for natural lands, urban forests and city parks. The starting point for the plan is a 2019 needs assessment that cites access to nature and recreation opportunities as key to quality of life.

In September, the city began to collect survey data about parks and open spaces, launching the yearlong planning process.

Currently, the city owns 689.8 acres of parks throughout the city and 1,693.7 acres of natural lands, mostly in the Wasatch Mountain foothills and along the Jordan River. Based on population projections, 94 acres of new parks will be needed by 2040 to meet future needs.

Unfortunately, there is not much empty space left for new parks.

While most city residents live

within half a mile of parks and open space, poor trail connectivity means that they can’t always get there by walking or biking.

Still, as the needs assessment says, “There is a real opportunity to go beyond focusing on the numbers, and to address parks and natural lands as essential elements for better air quality, climate change mitigation, energy efficiency and environmental justice.”

Reimagine Nature SLC: reimaginenatureslc.com

House hearing on unfit leadership in Bureau of Land Management

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n September 9, the House tor of Public Employees for EnvironCommittee on Natural Re- mental Responsibility (PEER), cited sources held a hearing on Pendley’s problematic support for William Pendley’s unfitness to lead rural “constitutional” sheriffs who refuse to enforce fedthe Bureau of Land eral rules. “It’s very Management (BLM). easy to break somePendley has been inthing and very diffistalled as head of cult to put it back BLM by president together,” he said.

Trump without a Sarah Thomas, Senate hearing to Land Programs confirm his appointManager, Conserve ment, a situation Southwest Utah, that Collin O’Mara, slammed Pendley’s CEO of the National BLM for promoting Wildlife Federation, construction of a calls a “constitutional four-lane highway crisis.” though the Red O’Mara testified Cliffs Desert Reserve that BLM lands are in Washington essential to address County, Utah. She both wildlife conintroduced the servation and clicommittee to an mate change and adorable desert torsaid, “We haven’t toise named “Tui” had an honest conWilliam Pendley (short for “hurry up” versation about the in Paiute language) value of these lands. There needs “It’s very easy to break whose species is threatened by the to be a massive resomething and very highway. thinking.”

All speakers exAngelo Baca, Culdifficult to put it pressed deep contural Resources Diback together,” cern about the rector of Utah Diné Bikéyah spoke of said Tim Whitehouse. damage a hostile actor like Pendley Pendley’s disrecould do between spect for indigenous communities, adding, now and January 2021.

“Multiple ways of knowing are es- House Natural Resources Committee Hearing: naturalresources.house.gov/hearings/william-pendsential to manage these lands.” leys-unfitness-to-lead-the-bureau-of-land-manag Tim Whitehouse, executive direc- ement

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Regional fires cause bad air quality in Utah

Western governors oppose Lake Powell pipeline

In August, wildfires raging in California caused weeks of hazy skies in Utah along with a spike in particulate air pollution that made it hard to breathe.

Utah Senator Mike Lee falsely blamed environmental regulations for the intensely destructive 2020 fire season, claiming that drought and heat are part of natural weather cycles.

University of Utah professor Jim Steenberg, author of the Wasatch Weather Weenies blog, criticized Lee’s politicized disrespect for science: “Scientists know what is happening, why it is happening, and that it's not going to get cooler, as suggested by President Trump this week. We also know that ‘cycles of burning and regrowth’ are natural, as argued by Senator Mike Lee, but also that these cycles have been altered by forest mismanagement and climate change, contributing to extreme fire behavior.”

The State of Utah is trying to stage a water grab and undermine years of cooperative planning for Colorado River water, according to a letter signed by six western governors.

The governors of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to deny approval for the Lake Powell Pipeline (LPP), a multi-billion-dollar water project designed to move Colorado River water to southwest Utah.

Water rights from the Colorado River Upper and Lower Basins are allocated according to the 1922 Colorado River Compact which notoriously overestimated the amount of water in the system.

Currently, population growth in the West is increasing water demand at the same time that ongoing drought stemming from climate change is reducing supplies.

The letter says Utah made false claims about negotiating LPP with other Colorado River Basin states,

Wasatch Weather Weenies: wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com

and that, in fact, “Compact issues and related substantive legal and operational issues remain unresolved.”

Bad ORV plan for San Rafael Swell In August the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a catastrophically bad motorized travel plan for the San Rafael Swell that doubles the miles of open trails from 300 miles to more than 765 miles. The plan creates a spider web of redundant routes, along cattle trails and dry washes.

This means off-road vehicles are likely to intrude in places that people use for hiking, mountain biking and other quiet recreation.

Noise, dust and dangerous speed makes motorized recreation incompatible with other recreation and conservation use, while the ability to travel long distances eats up large areas of public lands.

Ironically, the bad San Rafael

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Desert plan is one of 13 Utah travel plans that BLM was required to rewrite after a court-ordered settlement found improper environmental review for G.W. Bush-era travel plans.

Federal law requires BLM to minimize motorized travel impacts on wildlife, soils, watersheds, vegetation, cultural sites and user conflicts.

Laura Patterson, staff attorney at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, commented, “At this point, the Trump Administration Bureau of Land Management has abandoned even the pretense of seeking balance in public land management.”

areas with dense forests. The study concluded that sheep grazing would have to be reduced by 9097% in order to balance domestic sheep grazing with available forage.

Where does additional forage to support 12,850 ewe/lamb pairs of permitted sheep come from? It comes from degradation to soil and plants resulting in increased erosion and flood hazards and reduced food and habitat for native wildlife.

The High Uintas form a wildlife corridor that connects the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem with the Northern Rockies.

San Rafael Desert Travel Management Plan: eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/93510/510

Spatial Analysis of Livestock Grazing and Forest Service Management in the High Uintas Wilderness: wildutahproject.org/s/Carter-et-al_Journal-ofGIS-2020.pdf

Overgrazing in the High Uintas

Coal leasing in Utah’s Book Cliffs

A study of grazing in the High Uintas Wilderness Area found that the U.S. Forest Service has vastly overestimated carrying capacity for domestic sheep.

Researchers from Wild Utah Project used Forest Service standards to construct a model, eliminating areas unsuitable for grazing, such as slopes of 45 degrees or more, wetland areas, areas with forage production under 200 lbs/acre and

The Trump administration has proposed to open 4,231 acres for coal mining in Utah’s Book Cliffs on the edge of the Desolation Canyon Wilderness. The Williams Draw coal lease appears to be blatant government corruption to favor the Murray Energy Corporation headed by longtime Trump supporter Robert E. Murray.

Murray Energy filed for bankruptcy in October 2020, largely due

to lower demand for coal as renewable energy has become less expensive. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance says it is highly questionable whether there is any economic justification for new public lands coal leasing.

The Obama Administration began a comprehensive review of the federal coal leasing program to determine whether taxpayers are getting a fair deal on coal royalties in light of the costs of environmental impacts.

Under Trump’s “energy dominance” policy, the review was never completed and environmental concerns have never been addressed.

New Book Cliffs coal leasing would not only cause extensive landscape damage; mining would consume millions of gallons of water and burning the coal would release millions of pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.

Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians said, “This has nothing to do with energy, it’s a corrupt attempt to bail out a bankrupt coal company at the expense of public lands, the climate, and clean air and water.” The Green River in Desolation Canyon is a favorite place for river runners and is rich with archaeological sites. ◆

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2020 elections: CATALYST’s quick guide

Here’s what you need to know to participate in Utah elections this year.

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BY EMILY SPACEK

his year’s presidential election is looking to be more tumultuous than usual. We’re still in the midst of a global pandemic and for many American voters, voting this year might look different because of it. Mail ballots will be the preferred voting method in most states, even as postal services are being curtailed.

Utahns have been voting by mail for years now, and the election here is projected to run smoothly and with a high turnout. All registered Utah voters will automatically receive a 2020 ballot in the mail in October.

Register to vote and check your registration status

Your new voter registration or any changes to your current registration must be received by your county clerk before 5:00pm on Friday, October 23, 2020.

• Learn how to register to vote here.

(Registering online is the quickest way to register, it takes just two minutes!)

For seasoned voters and first-timers alike In the quick guide below—compiled with guidance from Katharine Biele (communications director) and Vickie Samuelson (co-president) of the League of Women Voters Utah—see how elections will work this year, how you can ensure your vote will be counted, who and what is on the ballot and other important reminders.

Remember, the 2020 elections will also determine a range partisan elected seats beyond the presidency in county, state and federal offices, school board and judicial seats as well as constitutional amendments.

• Click here to check your voter registration and make sure it is up to date.

• Here is where you can update your voter information such as party affiliation, and here is where to update your ballot mailing address.

Prepare to vote: Becoming an informed voter

The first step to becoming a wellinformed voter is learning who your

representatives are at each level of government.

• Enter your residential address at the Utah.gov site here and take note of all of your district numbers (Congress, State Senate, State House, State School Board, etc.).

• To view your current elected officials, visit vote.utah.gov, select “Learn about candidates and issues,” enter your residential address and select “Contact my

The sooner you return your ballot, the higher the chances of fixing potential issues on time. If there’s an issue with your signature not matching the one on file, your County Clerk’s office will call to resolve it and have your ballot counted. elected officials” to the right of the screen.

Next, find out who is running for office in your district this November.

• The Lt. Governor’s website offers a list of 2020 candidates for federal and state offices and state school board. Use your district numbers to determine which candidates apply to you.

• County Clerk websites (SLC County Clerk page linked here) also offer a list of 2020 candidates, and include candidates specific to county seats and local school boards. Many also include candidate websites or phone numbers, making it easier to research candidates who pique your interest.

Research the candidates to find out who you best align with ideologically.

• VoteSmart tracks positions and voting history of incumbent politicians. Vote411, run by League of Women Voters, has comprehensive bios and question responses for many candidates running in county, school board and state representative positions.

• Check in with organizations you most align with politically to see if they have their own vote trackers or legislative score cards. For example, see Sierra Club Utah Chapter’s 2020 legislative score card, which grades state representatives on their critical environmental work.

Research what issues will appear on your ballot.

• Seven state constitutional amendments appear on this year’s ballot.

You can read them on Ballotpedia here. The League of Women’s Voters recommends voters pay special attention to Amendment G, on taxes, which they are downvoting due to its vague language and lack of transparency.

Your voting plan

Voting will take place through the mail, at limited in-person polls, through drive-through polls and through early voting. Ballots drop in Utah on October 13. This year, all registered voters will automatically receive a 2020 ballot in the mail.

Consider which method is best for you and make your plan now.

Early voting Early voting for the General Election begins on October 20 and ends on October 30. Early voting will take place at specific drive-up or in-person locations (see below). For more information on in-person voting, visit your County Clerk website.

Drive-through voting Due to COVID-19 and the need to limit in-person contact, several Utah counties will set up drivethrough voting. At these locations,

voters drive up, scan their driver licenses and are handed a printed ballot to fill out in their cars and hand back. Again, contact your County Clerk’s office for more information and for locations.

In-person voting While not the preferred voting method this year, Utah counties will provide limited in-person voting opportunities. Check your County Clerk website for hours and locations. Remember to bring a reliable form of identification! (See here for Voter ID Requirements in Utah.)

Voting by mail • All registered voters will automatically receive a mail ballot in their mail from October 13 to October

If you are a registered voter and have not received a ballot by October 20, contact your County Clerk office.

20. If you do not receive a ballot by October 20, contact your County Clerk office.

• Completed ballots may be submitted as soon as they arrive in the mail. In most counties, postagepaid return envelopes are provided.

• Mailed ballots must be postmarked by the day before the election in order to be counted. The League of Women Voters recommends mailing your ballot one week before the election—by October 27.

• Ballots may also be submitted at ballot drop-off locations up until 8pm on Election Day, November 3, 2020.

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For Salt Lake County, see a map of ballot drop box locations here.

Voting: How to fill out your ballot and ensure your vote is counted

When filling out your ballot, follow directions carefully.

• Use a black or blue ballpoint pen.

Interested in being a poll worker or other volunteer this election? Visit your County Clerk’s website or give them a call.

• Be sure to completely fill in the ovals.

• If you make a mistake marking your ballot,

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cross through the incorrection, make your correction and circle it.

Do not sign or initial your ballot.

Sign the voter affidavit on the back of the return envelope. The signature on the affidavit should be the same signature you submitted on your voter registration form.

Sometimes, our signatures change over time.

If you believe this might be the case for you, update your voter registration and signature

by October 23.

If there is an issue with your signature on your returned ballot envelope matching the one on file in your record, your County Clerk’s office will call you immediately so that you can resolve it and have your ballot counted.

The sooner you return your ballot, the higher the chances of fixing

Women’s voting rights were finally recognized in 1920.

But full suffrage for Black women was not guaranteed until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

potential issues before the Election deadline.

This year, voters can track their ballots online at the Lieutenant Governor’s website or by calling their County Clerk office. The League of Women Voters recommends everyone track their ballots after voting.

With ballot tracking in place, there should be no reason anyone’s ballot gets tossed!

To find out if your County Clerk office needs poll workers or other volunteers this election, be sure to visit their website or give

them a call. Otherwise, take some extra time this year to encourage your friends and family to vote.

If you have a printer, offer to print voting guides for neighbors who might not have online access. Perhaps even offer to drive someone to a polling place or drop-off box.

While the presidential election is usually what most voters will feel most passionate about, the local elections are important to participate in as well. Local elections tend to touch our lives in more direct ways, and we want the politics of our local communities to represent the values of all of our community members. We can help make voting accessible and inclusive to all this year. *. *. * If all of this feels a bit overwhelming, Vickie Samuelson reminds us that it’s much easier today than it was for many in previous eras. Black men

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got the right to vote after the Civil War, but voted under great duress.

Women’s voting rights were finally recognized in 1920. Full suffrage for Black women was not guaranteed until the Voting Rights Act of 1965!

Even today, many U.S. citi-

If you have a printer, offer to print voting guides for neighbors who might not have online access. zens who have the legal right to vote are denied doing so due to local obstacles.

“We’ve fought hard to get the right to vote. Government is ‘for the people, by the people.’ Well, we are the people and we need to exercise this right,” concludes Samuelson. ◆ Emily Spacek is a CATALYST staff writer.

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LATTERDAY ABOLITIONIST

How to end CA$H BAIL in SLC Money is a weapon used against the poor

BY BRINLEY FROELICH address this problem. The hopes are to shine a light on the absurdity of the cash-bail system, with the aim to eventually eliminate cash-bail and pretrial detention entirely.

How much does bail cost?

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n the criminal legal system, like so many other systems in the U.S., money is weaponized to hold people hostage. If you are arrested, you are still presumed innocent under the law, but that does not prevent you from being jailed against your will in pretrial detention.

Bail is a monetary payment used to release you from pretrial detention, and is held, like ransom, until your court case is closed. In theory, it’s supposed to act as collateral to encourage you to show up to court.

In practice, it’s a way to further compound the harm of an already cruel

In Utah, the amount of your bail is left to the discretion of the judge or “jus- magistrate assigned to your case, tice” sys- which can range from hundreds of tem. dollars to the tens of thousands, Right now in Salt Lake based on the charges. This incenCounty’s two jails, Oxbow and tivizes bail bond industries, which Metro, almost 80% of the people are issue out loans if you can’t afford to being detained pretrial, meaning post bail, to act in predatory ways. they haven’t received a sentence.

Utah has a powerful bail bond Most of those people are trapped industry which lobbies the state simply because they cannot afford and individual judges to set higher to pay their bail. bail amounts, so that the 10% fee The Salt Lake Community Bail they keep is also higher. While Fund was formed as a way to meet HB206, a bill passed earlier this people’s immediate needs by pro- year, aims to have income be one viding community-sourced fund- of the deciding factors in setting ing to post bail on their behalf and

Utah has a powerful bail bond industry which lobbies the state and individual judges to set higher bail amounts, so that the 10% fee they keep is also higher.

bail, we can only wait to see if that will change or disrupt any patterns. Regardless of a consideration of income, however, we should still question why our legal system is committed to putting a price tag on someone’s freedom.

While the uniform bail schedule suggests bail amounts ranging from $25,000 for 1st degree felonies to $340 for the lowest misdemeanors, that’s all it is: a suggestion.

Additionally, a person can still have multiple charges issued against them, which add up quickly. The Salt Lake Community Bail Fund’s first bail request was for $60,000, illustrating just how easily these loopholes are exploited.

When over half of the people incarcerated are currently unemployed (in Salt Lake, the percentage hovers around 60%), an inability to pay means they must simply accept their detainment and wait until their court date, which can take months or years to process.

The consequences of pretrial detention While being detained pretrial, a person loses vital connections to their community, including to their family and friends. It can threaten their housing status, employment, education or child custody in the process, or expose them to violence in the jail. These consequences are not only felt by the person in jail, but their family members as well.

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provider from their daily life can be devastating for dependents and partners.

Being held in jail is harmful at any time, despite the added impacts of the coronavirus. Growing public health research on the harms of incarceration has repeatedly affirmed what frontline communities have said all along: that incarceration measurably harms one’s mental and physical health, negatively impacts one’s family and community health, and that the criminal legal system disproportionately harms people who are structurally marginalized, including Black people, Latinx people, indigenous people, immigrants, people with disabilities, queer and transgender people, and people

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with low incomes.

In April, we organized a #FreeThemAll campaign centered around the issue of COVID-19 in solidarity with people locked up in jails and prisons across the country. While people may falsely believe that the isolation of jails may actually be better at containing the virus, they are hot spots for the spread. Jail guards who go in and out of the facilities each day risk spreading the virus either to their communities, in the case of it coming from someone detained, or to the population of those in the jails, which is around 1,300 people right now in Salt Lake.

That’s where a community bail fund can help. The bail fund is our most recent initiative launched from

Decarcerate Utah, and we hope to use it as a mechanism to expose the harm caused by cash bail and unnecessary time spent in jail. The bail fund is completely operated by volunteer power so that we can use any money we raise to go directly toward a person’s bail. To the fullest extent possible, we will always post a person’s bail as opposed to bond, which would be subject to a nonrefundable 10% of bail fee and would continue to feed the harmful bail bond system.

We can do better by building relationships with each other With the bail fund we hope to illustrate ways we can keep our com-

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With stronger community ties and relationships built on trust, we can provide each other with the things we need in order to heal from potential harms and keep ourselves and our loved ones secure. munities safe, not only from the spread of the virus, but from the harms perpetuated by incarceration and pretrial detention. Research shows that conviction rates are higher with an increase in lengthof-stay, and that more people are subject to guilty plea rates than those who are released pretrial.

That’s because plea deals are often the quickest way for someone to get out of jail and return to their lives. It’s also because length of stay limits a person’s financial resources to secure a proper defense due to loss of income.

Instead of detention, we should encourage people to seek treatment and education opportunities, and support people with resources so they can pay restitution. With stronger community ties and relationships built on trust, we can provide each other with the things we need in order to heal from potential harms and keep ourselves and our loved ones secure.

We hope this bail fund will be short term as we work toward our goals, but in the meantime please donate! ◆ Brinley Froelich is a writer, yoga instructor and embroidery artist. She is the co-founder of Decarcerate Utah. Visit slcbailfund.org for more information, to donate or to make a request.

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Welcome to the Utah Bioregiona

Getting to know the place you call home (in 12 monthly installme

BY AMY BRUNVAND

Bioregionalism “refers to both a geographical terrain and a terrain of consciousness—to a place and to ideas that have developed about how to live in that place.”

The Wasatch as seen from Antelope Island which boasts the county’s oldest and youngest rocks

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a Bioregional Reader published a widely distributed quiz that challenged people to test their knowledge about the place where they live.

Bioregionalism is an idea that human well-being is founded in relationships with natural systems—flora, fauna, geology, climate, fire and water. In the Reader, Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann write, “The term refers to both a geographical terrain and a terrain of consciousness—to a place and to ideas that have developed about how to live in that place.”

Love of place and local knowledge are seen as essential to sustainability. In the interest of placemaking, CATALYST writer Amy Brunvand is revisiting the bioregional quiz with a series of 12 articles about the Wasatch Front bioregion.

protected areas? Where are the sacrifice zones?

4. Waste: Where does our garbage go?

5. Water: Where does our drinking water come from?

Where does sewage go?

6. Human Ecology: Who lived here before us? How did they survive?

7. Migration: Name five resident and five migratory birds.

8. Fauna: What nonhuman residents live here? What animals have become extinct?

9. Flora: What are the major plant communities? Where can you find them?

10. Food: How long is the growing season? Name five edible native plants.

11. Fire: When did the area last burn? What is the ecological role

1. Geology: What ecological

of fire?

and geological processes influenced the land forms?

12. Dark sky: Were the stars out last night? In what phase is the

2. Land Use: What is our land

moon?

use history?

3. Stewardship: Where are the

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#1: “What ecological and geological processes influ Range after range of mountains Year after year after year.

I am still in love.

--Gary Snyder

mines (you can see it from outer space!); that the valley floor is a hazardous earthquake liquefaction zone made of unconsolidated sediment from Pleistocene Lake Bonhen you live in Utah, ge- neville. ology is everything.

Deep time meets you on the surface with no need to dig.

The original 1990 bioregional quiz challenged readers to point north, but nobody who lives on the Wasatch Front would have any trouble with that. We orient ourselves to geological compass points—the Wasatch Mountains to the east; the Oquirrh Mountains and Great Salt Lake to the west.

Geology crops up with unusual frequency in small talk. A person on the street could probably tell you that the quartz monzonite used to build the Utah Capitol building and downtown LDS temple was quarried at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon (although they’d probably call the stone “granite”); that the Bingham Canyon Mine is one of the world’s largest open pit

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We orient ourselves to geological compass points—the Wasatch Mountains to the east; the Oquirrh Mountains and Great Salt Lake to the west.

We talk casually about the Wasatch fault and the inevitable “Big One” that has begun to seem more ominous since March 2020 when an earthquake and aftershocks shook the city for weeks. If you ride a bicycle in Salt Lake City, you need an ebike or one with low gears in order to make it to the top of the Wasatch fault scarp. The ancient Lake Bonneville beach forms a foothills bench for the Bonneville Shoreline Trail where people walk their dogs and watch the sunset over Great Salt Lake.

Unlocking the stonehearted mysteries As an undergraduate student in the 1980s, I was so in love with rocks that I got a bachelor’s degree in geology at the University of Utah. I thought that learning science would teach me to understand the stonehearted mysteries of Utah’s landscapes, and to some extent it did. To this day I can look at static rock layers and see a geologic history of motion—ancient surges of ocean

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enced the land forms?” waves, the steamy chaos of magma intrusions, a sudden crash of erosional rockfall; I can read the thermometer baked into igneous rocks, and imagine a whole ecosystem based on a few tiny fossils.

But, even though we students took countless weekend fieldtrips to

or, occasionally, their scientific value. From that standpoint, John McPhee’s book Basin and Range (1981) came as a revelation, with its poetic descriptions of plate tectonics and unabashed pleasure in the geologic exposures in the Great Basin.

The perspective of bioregionalism asks us to consider not only how geological landforms affect the way we live, but also what they imply about how we should live. commune with rocks, there was not much in the curriculum to acknowledge a terrain of consciousness. The things we studied were mainly considered interesting according to their economic

Salt Lake City lies on the eastern edge of the Great Basin, an extensional tectonic feature that goes all the way across Nevada to the California border. This is a place where moun-

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tains, as McPhee wrote, “come in waves, range after range after north-south range, consistently in rhythm with wide flat valleys: basin, range; basin, range; a mile of height between basin and range.”

Rain and snow that falls in the Great Basin has no outlet to the ocean. Water collects in the basins and evaporates, leaving behind dissolved minerals in playas and saline lakes of which Great Salt Lake is the largest.

Green, red, grey The state of Utah is trisected by a pinwheel of geomorphic provinces

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The floodplain surrounding the lake is much, much larger than the lake itself.

Surrounding marshes, mud flats and salt flats make it hard to know where Great Salt Lake begins and ends.

with the forest-green Wasatch/Uinta Mountains to the northeast, the redrock Colorado Plateau to the South, and the grayscale Great Basin to the west. When we go on vacation, people on the Wasatch Front turn toward the glamorous Wasatch Mountain ski resorts or head south to Utah’s legendary “Mighty Five” national parks.

The Great Basin is the red-headed stepchild, revealed in Chip Ward’s environmental classic Canaries on the Rim (2000) to be a neglected dumping ground for toxic industries, military training runs and haz-

ardous waste.

Other writers have noticed that the spacious Great Basin landscape is alienating to non-native settlers. In Overlook (2006), Matthew Coolidge, co-founder of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, describes how the industrialized, degraded lands of the Great Basin have become almost literally invisible.

Counsel from the mountains However, the desert can also tap into human spirituality. In Believing in Place (2003), Richard V. Francaviglia writes, “The Great Basin has

taught me as much about belief as it has geography.”

The perspective of bioregionalism asks us to consider not only how geological landforms affect the way we live, but also what they imply about how we should live. Our parallel mountain ranges support recreation on one side and a mining industry on the other, but they are also a cause of Salt Lake City’s chronic air pollution. The mountains form a bowl where cold winter air settles after winter storms, held down by warmer air at higher elevations—the infamous temperature inversion. The inversion tells us that by taking better care of our air, we could also take better care of ourselves. Everything emitted by our machines and furnaces stays trapped in the air we breathe and ends up in our lungs.

In effect, the mountains counsel us to build a better city: to place limits on car-dependent urbanization and seek cleaner alternatives to burning fossil fuels.

A particularly interesting bioregional study of the Wasatch Front is a PhD thesis, Big Smelly, Salty Lake that I Call Home, written by Carla Trentelman who is now a professor at Weber State University. The title expresses a sense of deep ambivalence that people feel towards a place that many find ugly and hard to love.

Indeed, Trentelman found that a surprising number of people who live near the lake seem to have no real awareness that it is there at all—a bit like not realizing that the Serengeti ecosystem is in your backyard. Great Salt Lake wetlands have been designated by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Net-

work as a Hemispheric Reserve— that is, a site that supports more than 500,000 migrating shorebirds each year.

Still, the character of the lake is elusive. Marvelous birds appear and vanish with the seasons. The lake is so shallow that the water level rises and falls dramatically due to wet years or drought. The floodplain surrounding the lake is much, much larger than the lake itself and baffles people who want to build permanent structures. Surrounding marshes, mud flats and salt flats make it hard to know where Great Salt Lake begins and ends.

Great Salt Lake, in short, is a strange and wonderful bioregional mystic. It seems that we can never truly become native to this place until we learn to turn toward the west, to call Great Salt Lake and the Great Basin home. ◆ Amy Brunvand is a published poet, essayist and librarian for the University of Utah’s Office of Sustainability

Reading list:

John McPhee. Basin and Range. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1981.

Van Andruss, Chrisopher Plant, Judith Plant and Eleanor Wright, eds. Home! A Bioregional Reader. New Catalyst Books, 1990.

Utah Geological Survey. Engineering Geology of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, Utah. UGS, 1990.

Chip Ward. Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West. Verso, 2000.

Richard V. Francaviglia. Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin.

University of Nevada Press, 2003.

Matthew Coolidge. Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Metropolis Books, 2006.

Carla Koons Trentelman. Big Smelly, Salty Lake that I Call Home: Sense of Place with a Mixed Amenity Setting. PhD Thesis, Utah State University, 2009.

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REFLECTIONS

Humanized nature Nature is evolving before our very eyes

BY DAN POTTS

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ike most Utah sportsmen growing up in the 1960s, I learned to be a classic Utah consumptive user of renewable resources. I became an avid hunter, fisherman and forager of wild foods mostly because my grandfather and father did those things.

Unlike them, I started including more nonconsumptive uses of nature by climbing trees to see birds on their own level, diving into the world of fishes as an aquarium hobbyist and becoming totally enthralled by smaller critters like insects to become a young budding naturalist before graduating from West High School.

restore “natural nature” to all of its original glory.

But the biggest challenge to my restoration efforts has been man’s efforts to mix nature from everywhere through the “Russian Roulette” of moving life forms to where they had not been before.

Some species were moved intentionally; others unintentionally, both often with catastrophic effects to Earth’s ecosystems. This is likely not surprising to anyone reading this article. Classic examples of introductions gone bad in Utah include common house mice, rats and raccoons.

The nonnative rodents have invaded our homes for centuries and much larger nocturnal raccoons

Introductions and migrations Years of schooling at several universities where I attended many courses in fish, birds and insects promoted my youthful idealistic tendencies; I got higher degrees in ecology and wildlife management.

I had, however, concluded that returning to conditions of the “garden of Eden” was no longer possible.

A herd of about 80 highly visible antelope persist (for now) in the new Inland Port area.

It was certainly not that I had dismissed the influences of biological evolution and its benefits through natural selection that provided plants and animals their values to the integration and utility to ecosystems worldwide. For the next 40 years I dedicated myself through volunteering my time to efforts to

Animals of all kinds are now being challenged to evolve their instincts far more quickly than is possible. But the only recourse for many wildlife species to survive is to change their behavior. have become a blight to us gardeners raising sweet corn and homeowners with egg-laying hens. My longtime opinion of exotic raccoons in Utah is “The only good raccoon is a dead one!” I’m not alone in this opinion. In the mountains above Kyoto, Japan, Buddhist monks are waging war with raccoons, who have damaged over 80% of the ancient temples since they were introduced to Japan in the 1970s as pets.

Monks, too, have adopted a zerotolerance policy.

A recent example of another exotic eastern animal arriving in Utah is the cute red fox squirrel, first introduced to my own Westside Salt Lake neighborhood about six years ago.

This functional furry-tailed rat lives mostly in trees and has quickly expanded its local range, running down our overhead high-power electric supply lines.

My wife and I routinely kill them because of the damage they do to our garden and fruit trees. As likely the most hunted and eaten animal in North America, squirrels are a rapidly expanding food resource. Yum!

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Many wildlife species that were once difficult to get close enough to see have increasingly warmed up to us.

In many cases it is the only way they can continue to survive in our world. years of natural selection.

Some higher critters, however, have the capacity of learning through behavior modification— “soft wiring.”

Fishes, amphibians and reptiles are less likely to learn new behaviors, while higher animals like birds and mammals are much more likely to learn, especially in the face of man’s pervasive effects.

Even larger game animals like Western mule deer have grown closer to man.

For years there have been herds near 3500 South and the Jordan River, another out west by RC Willey’s, and yet another next to the state’s OHV facility in North Salt Lake, which are occasionally killed by cars.

A herd of about 80 highly visible antelope persist (for now) in the new Inland Port area.

Like most educated in science, I believe that global weather change will continue to have catastrophic effects on Earth’s weather patterns, on nature and increasingly on man himself.

No one can deny that increases in the number and severity of forest and range fires, tornadoes and hurricanes is having dramatic and catastrophic effects on lives worldwide.

Sea level change resulting from

REFLECTIONS rapidly melting glaciers will ultimately flood the homes of millions of people and wildlife, who will have to move to somewhere.

Here in Utah the drying of our forests has stressed them so badly that bark beetles are literally “finishing off” conifers everywhere in our national forests.

These dried-up areas are far more susceptible to hotter, more destructive fires, regardless of what started them.

Animals of all kinds are now being challenged to evolve their instincts far more quickly than is possible.

But the only recourse for many wildlife species to survive is to change their behavior.

A classic example of a species’ ability to deal with a warming planet is the great-tailed grackle.

Not long ago, this unusual looking black bird with its “great tail” and unbelievable vocal abilities could only be found as far north as St. George.

Moving away from too much heat in the south, the species has now migrated all the way to Idaho.

Over the years these personable, opportunistic birds have grown so accustomed to humans that their rookeries (groups) can now be found in parking lots throughout their northerly moving range.

Just go to the Home Depot parking lot on 2100 South in Salt Lake City to easily see these large, regal black bird males and smaller females.

Just don’t give them your car keys!

Another example of habituation I can easily remember the days when there were no free-flight mourning doves, mallard ducks and

Canada geese inside our city limits.

Today many of those species never migrate south as they all had done historically.

They never leave the safety of urban areas where hunting with guns is prohibited, and many urban waters never freeze up in the winter as they routinely had in the past.

When and where I had harvested many doves and ducks in the past, the West’s decade-long drought and its resulting behavioral changes of wildlife has largely eliminated what was once a naturally occurring, sustainable food resource for my family and others.

On a positive note My recently revised publication The Vertebrates of the Jordan River Corridor lists fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals and always includes an ecological comments section for each group, discussing recent animal introductions or their abilities to habituate to man and the rapidly changing environments that result from our activities.

Many wildlife species that were once difficult to get close enough to see have increasingly warmed up to humans.

In many cases it is the only way they can continue to survive in our world.

The colorful and once elusive Bullock’s oriole now safely nests near my house, up and down the Jordan River, where none could be seen when I was a young budding naturalist. ◆ For years Dan Potts has represented nonconsumptive interests on the Central Region Advisory Council of the Utah’s Wildlife Board. He is also dedicated to promoting fishing, gardening and foraging for wild foods to help people eat better quality foods.

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS

Springing ahead this fall Now’s the time to transplant perennials and direct-sow many flower and herb seeds

BY JAMES LOOMIS

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he summer of 2020 was a scorcher in the Salt Lake Valley. We melted a number of previous records, with the hottest August in 143 years.

As the weather finally cools with the change of the season, there’s much to be done in the garden.

We recently covered planting cool weather vegetables in the garden.

It's also an ideal time for transplanting perennials as well as planting many flowers and herbs from seed.

These direct-seeded flowers and herbs are not intended to germinate now, but rather to be in position to germinate next spring.

From a design perspective, planting in the fall is a serious boss move.

Take a look around your garden, and you’ll see where you have bare spots that could use more plantings, or also make accurate judgments of the heights of plants at their maturity. This allows for much better design as opposed to making these

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calls in the spring, when much of your garden is just hidden potential.

Transplanting perennials Fall really is the ideal time for planting perennials. As garden centers mark down their inventory to clear things out before winter, the thrifty gardener can save oodles of loot purchasing plants in fall rather than waiting until spring.

In addition, fall-transplanted perennials can take advantage of warm soil temperatures. This allows the roots to grow much more quickly than in the spring, when soil temperatures are cooler. Plants that establish themselves in the fall are

able to blast off in the spring, resulting in a larger plant with more blooms.

Fall in Utah is also much more stable, from a plant’s perspective, as opposed to the wild ride of fluctuating temperatures in spring. By getting a head start, fall planted perennials can become fully established before the heat of next summer sets in, and will require much less water and pampering than those planted in spring.

The boss move is to get perennials planted at least six weeks before the ground freezes solid. It’s anyone’s guess when that will happen exactly, but transplanting by the end

Fall-transplanted perennials can take advantage of warm soil temperatures; the roots grow much more quickly than in the spring. They can become fully established before the heat of next summer sets in, and will require less water and pampering than those planted in spring.

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of October is a safe bet. Plants that aren’t established before that time can be subject to “frost heave,” where the plant is lifted and pushed out of the ground by the action of the freeze/thaw cycle.

Make sure to mulch generously around fall-planted perennials

Fall-seeded plants get growing much earlier than spring-seeded plants, and on average you’ll see blooms two weeks earlier. when the nights begin to regularly see temperatures at 32 degrees and below.

However, don’t mulch before that, as the boss move is to take advantage of as much soil warmth from the sun as possible.

Perennials that are a must-have in my garden and form the backbone of many of the hedgerows at my farm are Blue Queen salvia, purple coneflower, yarrow, rabbitbrush, Russian sage, goldenrod, Mexican milkweed, hyssop, and globe thistle.

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Direct seeding Direct seeding in the fall is a next level boss maneuver. That’s how nature do, literally dumping seeds onto the soil to overwinter.

In fact, many plants require a repeated freeze/thaw cycle to break down the seed coat, a process known as vernalization. While this process can be simulated by bringing seeds in and out of the freezer for a spring planting, that is simply too much work. Let nature do her thing.

Some plants that respond well to fall plantings are native wildflower mixes, penstemon, echinacea, wild columbine, black-eyed Susan, northern sweetvetch, sweet alyssum, ammi and sky blue aster.

Fall-seeded plants get growing much earlier than spring-seeded plants, and on average you’ll see blooms two weeks earlier. Having a plethora of early blooms in the garden is a surefire way to attract pollinators and predatory insects, the

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latter of which are likely to take up permanent residence for the season when you extend them the right invitation.

It’s also much easier to find a beautiful day for planting in the fall, which means you’ll get it done on time. Chaotic weather in spring m e a n s you’ll often get delayed waiting for that perfect day.

The process is straightfor ward, and the only challenge is in keeping your actions minimal and not overworking your planting.

The goal is to mimic how nature seeds.

1. Wait until the first hard frost kills back sensitive plants.

2. Prepare your planting a r e a by removing

any existing weeds or unwanted plants.

3. Rake the area clean, then lightly roughen up and cultivate the surface using a hard metal rake.

4. Sprinkle your seeds on the surface according to the directions on the seed packet.

5. Compress the seeds into the seed bed, by gently walking over the area or patting them with the back side of a flat-nose shovel.

6. Mark and label the seeded area.

Otherwise, come March, you will have forgotten all about your fall-seeded patch and may very well start planting something else there.

A boss gardener alw a y s labels and dates a planting!

7. Last, and most important, stop! Do not cover the seeds, do not apply mulch or straw, simply leave them as is.

The weather and t h eseasonal shifts to take their course, and next spring you’ll be greeted by a fresh stand of sweet l’il plant babies. ◆ James Loomis is a full-time urban farmer, educator and keeper of the Old Cherry Orchard (aka OchO), a permaculture farm. He lives in Salt Lake City.

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COMMUNITY CARE

Cultural riches Autumn 2020

Adopt-A-Native-Elder Navajo Rug Show & Sale goes digital November 12, 2020

BY EMILY SPACEK

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inda Myers, a Utah native and Park City resident, has provided traditional Navajo elders in southern Utah and northern Arizona life-saving supplies for three decades.

Her work began in the 1980s during the turbulent years of the HopiNavajo land dispute, when 10,000 DinĂŠ (Navajo people) were forced to relocate from traditional homelands on the Big Mountain reservation and surrounding areas of Black Mesa in northern Arizona. These times were especially hard on the elders, who faced major food insecurity.

With a growing awareness of the desperate situation and with the assistance of Grace Smith Yellowhammer, a traditional DinĂŠ woman who led some of the earliest trips to help traditional Navajo elders on the reservation at Big Mountain, Linda

Myers, a gift shop owner, artist and single mother, began journeying to the Navajo reservation to deliver needed food and clothing.

In traditional Native communities, the elderly are revered for their wisdom and close connection to the ancestors. But Native elders also comprise one of the most econom-

ically disadvantaged groups in the nation. In impoverished, remote locations of the Navajo reservation, many Navajo elders live in traditional hogans some 30 miles away from services.

Medical supplies, food and firewood are vital, especially during cold winters. As food and clothing needs revealed other needs, Linda’s solo trips gradually evolved into a more complex, logistical endeavor. She founded her organization, Adopt-A-NativeElder, based in Park City, to support the elders in a more sustainable way.

Adopt-A-Native-Elder, its staff and team of volunteers, travels to the Navajo Reservation twice a year to spend several weeks with the elders. Currently, 800 Navajo elders are sponsored, and thousands of others on the reservation are supported. Anyone can become a sponsor by committing to provide

In traditional Native communities, the elderly are revered for their wisdom and close connection to the ancestors.

But Native elders also comprise one of the most economically disadvantaged groups in the nation. an Elder with two sets of food boxes annually, delivered by the Adopt-ANative-Elder team during a spring and fall food run. Other donations are collected for additional firewood, medical supplies, school supplies, food bundles and more.

Living their traditions But Myers recognized early on that meeting these basic survival needs—food, medicine, warmth— was not enough. Honoring and respecting the traditional Navajo lifestyle also meant helping the

elders secure needed income while living out their lives in the traditional way.

One day early on, while delivering food on the land, Myers was approached by a Navajo grandma named Katie Fur Cap, holding out a hand-woven rug.

“Can you sell my rug?” she asked.

Myers had never sold a Navajo rug before, but she did own a small shop on Main Street in Park City. She agreed to take the rug and hung it up in her shop next to Katie’s picture. Sure enough, Katie’s rug sold.

When Myers returned to present the profit, there Katie stood with another rug in hand, accompanied by three of her sisters, each with a rug of her own.

“More and more people [from the reservation] wanted me to take their rugs home to sell, too, so I started contacting museums and other places to see if they would buy the rugs,” Myers told me in a recent phone interview.

This model became challenging, though. “At the time, I was an artist and I didn't like consigning my work because sometimes I didn't get paid from stores. So, it was really hard for me, as an artist and single mother, to say, ‘Yes, I can take your rug and

The show is needed now more than ever, Myers says. Trading posts have closed, and other rug auctions were canceled as well. Some weavers have had no income this year because they’ve had no place to sell.

Navajo rugs are sought after for their beauty and uniqueness, but they are also a true Native American folk art, a way of preserving culture and tradition. not pay you [now].’ It was very important to me, and it still is today, that when they give us a rug, they get all proceeds.”

Myers was coming to understand the importance of a traditional Navajo rug. Navajo weaving is done the same way now as it was on the first Navajo loom, by hand, one strand at a time, weavers sitting at a loom for hours and hours. Historically they have not reaped the whole profit of their hard work.

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weavers should be honored for their craft with full pay.

The yearly market Adopt-A-Native-Elder developed a program that would allow traditional weavers, such as Katie Fur Cap and her sisters, to sustain themselves in this traditional way.

The Adopt-A-Native-Elder Annual Navajo Rug Show & Sale has become a yearly market for the weavers, in which they receive all of the proceeds from the sales of their rugs. In addition, the program delivers about $20,000 in yarn to elders for the upcoming year to help encourage weaving and sustain it as a traditional livelihood.

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Covid-19 has taken the lives of 20 program elders, as well as 30 family members, says Myers, with an additional 18 elders still in recovery.

like that, that used to happen when they were young before everything dried up,” Myers says.

The show will feature 32 of these special rugs by 20 of the program’s elders along with other rugs from close to 70 other Navajo weavers from the reservation. The huge difference this year: The rug show is going online to help ensure the health and safety of weavers, volunteers and patrons during the coronavirus pandemic.

“This is the first year the weavers won’t be attending the show and it’s going to be very hard for them financially. When we’ve had the show at Deer Valley, we’ve had huge attendances and the elders had so much success in selling their jewelry and rugs in person. It’s important when people can go up and meet weavers directly and learn about each rug’s importance.”

Despite knowing that their financial success might be somewhat compromised this year due to the virus, the weavers are still eager to show their rugs and the Adopt-ANative-Elder team is working hard to make the online show a success.

Now, more than ever

The fact is, the show is needed now more than ever, Myers says.

Trading posts have closed, and other rug auctions were canceled ebrating its 31st year in 2020. This this year due to the pandemic. year’s event focuses on two themes Some weavers have had no income this year because they’ve had no within contemporary Navajo weavplace to sell. ing: Sacred Waters and Autumn.

“Weaving is a livelihood. Most of “The them of Sacred Waters repreour weavers are 75 [years old] and sents the fact that water is life. Most of the elders don't have running above. They’ve been doing this now water. When they wove these rugs for many, many years and count on for us, they wove beautiful rivers the money for food, for firewood, for running through mesas and things hay for their sheep during the win-

ter. So, we're going to do our best with the virtual rug show to represent the elders, sell their rugs and bring awareness to their needs.”

Covid-19 has taken the lives of 20 program elders, as well as 30 family members, says Myers, with an additional 18 elders still in recovery. She hopes this year’s show brings as much support as possible. The elders and their families need it more than ever. “We appreciate all of the people who have come over the years to Deer Valley to see the rug show and we hope they will watch our virtual rug show and continue to support these families.”

The rug show begins November 12 at 5pm. Patrons can log onto the Adopt-A-Native-Elder website for a series of short videos on traditional cultural teachings and the spiritual significance of the rugs and their designs, followed by the sale itself.

“Whether it’s a fine rug or what we call a ‘heart rug’—where an elder who can no longer see weaves a rug from feel—we hope to sell many rugs and continue to help carry on the tradition of weaving.” All prices of the rugs are set by the weavers and all proceeds from the sale are kept by the weaver.

Even for those who cannot afford

“Whether it’s a fine rug or what we call a ‘heart rug’— where an elder who can no longer see weaves a rug from feel—we hope to sell many rugs and continue to help carry on the tradition of weaving.”

sadness, from describing a difficult year for the families she represents.

But when describing the patterns on some of her favorite rugs for sale at the upcoming show—Bobby Jo White Hair’s beautiful picture of the harvest moon over the desert; all the colors running through the threads of her sister’s autumn trees rug—it was clear: her intense admiration for a tremendously resilient community, and her confidence in that resiliency to endure. ◆ Emily Spacek is a CATALYST staff writer.

a rug during this time, the team has other options for ways to help support Navajo weaving, the elders and their families.

“We give a lot of $40 yarn boxes to those of younger generations to encourage weaving to continue. We also have a food certificate program for $25.” You might wish to contribute to the ceremony fund, the blanket fund, the children’s fund, or buy some Blue Bird flour. “Whether somebody can buy a rug or not, they can always make a donation to support the families.”

Linda Myers was just about to take off on a trip to the reservation when we had this conversation. In her voice, there was pain from the recent losses she had witnessed; and

Navajo Rug Show & Sale Virtual Event November 12, 2020 5pm www.AnElder.org Log on for short videos on traditional cultural teachings and the spiritual significance of the rugs and their designs, followed by the sale itself.

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Mindfulness practice for changing times How to maintain ballast in times of upheaval

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020 is the “gift” that keeps on giving. September smelled like a campfire as Utah and the entire West Coast experienced devastating wildfires. Not so long ago, an unprecedented wind-

storm hit the Salt Lake Valley and uprooted thousands of large trees, causing damage in neighborhoods and parks everywhere. Even if you’ve stayed healthy, chances are COVID has upended your life in

many ways. And oh yeah, there was an earthquake here back in March.

Seems so long ago now. And then there’s the constant political chaos.

Fortunately, there are ways to maintain ballast even in the midst of seemingly constant upheaval. Mindfulness practice can be our lifejacket.

Part of what makes events like these so disconcerting is that they remind us that we are powerless to control much of what happens in our lives. The onslaught of uncontrollable disasters is overwhelming and exhausting.

But the truth is, even when our lives seem calm, change is still happening—every single moment. We just don’t notice it so much when our lives are rolling along undisturbed.

That is the grounding principle behind mindfulness meditation.

When we stop and look deeply into our experience, we see the process of constant change in every single moment. By observing our senses, we can see for ourselves the constant arising and passing of sight, sound, taste, smell, touch and thought. We see that nothing stays the same—ever. Observing this moment-to-moment process of change helps us become more comfortable with the changes in our lives.

Sutra 1.2 in the yoga sutras of Patanjali (Alistair Shearer’s translation) says, “Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence.” This silence doesn’t depend on external or internal conditions. It is a silence that is intrinsic to all of us. It is the peaceful core of every being. While dhyana (meditation) can’t help us control what happens in our lives, it can help us access this peaceful core.

Basic Mindfulness Practice 1. Begin your practice by sitting quietly in a comfortable position. You can sit on a meditation cushion or even in a chair if you like.

2. Settle back in your body, so that you are not leaning forward. This is a subtle, but powerful, adjustment.

Leaning forward creates tension in the body. Settling back allows you to be more receptive to whatever is arising.

3. Now feel the contact points in your body—your hips, legs and feet.

Relax into your base. What else is happening in the body? Does your

energy feel heavy or light, quick or slow, agitated or calm?

4. Now tune into your sense of hearing. Are there sounds in your environment? If so, settle back and allow them to come and go naturally. Feel the vibration of sound throughout your body.

5. Notice your breathing. Notice the rhythm, depth and the physical sensations associated with the expansion and release of the inhalation and exhalation.

6. What is the landscape of the mind?

Are thoughts present? Are emo-

tions present? How is your mind reacting to what you are observing?

7. Stay with this for at least five minutes. You can practice as long as you want.

We may not be able to control what happens in our lives. But through mindfulness practice, we can access the steadfast and infinite peace that can guide us through even the most trying times. â—† Charlotte Bell has been practicing yoga since 1982.

She is the author of several yoga-related books including, most recently, Hip Healthy Asana, and founder of Mindful Yoga Collective. CharlotteBellYoga.com/

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The lasting impacts of redlining Part 2: Environmental Justice Series

BY DANIEL MENDOZA

Editor’s note: Social and environmental justice is not a new topic, but it is gaining exposure since the COVID19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter.

This article is the second of a threepart series—see the September CATALYST for Daniel Mendoza’s brief overview. Here, we discuss the practice of redlining, which was outlawed with the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The Early Winter CATALYST will discuss in greater detail what’s happened in the aftermath of these laws.

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ollowing a well-known line in real estate, environmental justice can be described in three words: location, location, location. The practice that has led to disparities in population distribution along the lines of race and wealth is called redlining. Wikipedia tells us that “In the United States and Canada, redlining is the systematic denial of various services by federal government agencies, local governments as well as the private sector either directly or through the selective raising of prices.”

What does this mean and how did this work in practice? As part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) was instituted in 1933 to rescue struggling banks and mortgage holders. Maps, created for communities of more than 40,000 residents, outlined neighborhoods deemed suitable for mortgages, and those considered poor investments. This was an important development, particularly at that time while the economy was recovering from the Great Depression.

Redlining is the systematic denial of various services either directly or through the selective raising of prices. The practice, outlawed in 1968, created disparities in population distribution along the lines of race and wealth that persist to this day.

Neighborhoods were given a letter grade from A (Best), B (Still Desirable), C (Definitely Declining) and D (Hazardous) taking into consideration such factors as the age and upkeep of the housing stock, the prospect of rent, the proximity or encroachment of commercial and industrial facilities, and neighborhood amenities such as parks. During the development of these categories in Salt Lake City, officials also took into consideration an area called the “Smoke Zone.” Generally speaking, lower income and minority populations were living in “C” and “D”-zoned neighborhoods, while higher income and lower minority population groups lived in “A” and “B” neighborhoods.

The financial impact of classifying neighborhoods in this manner was, at least, twofold. The first repercussion was that lenders would offer mortgage options in the most desir-

Figure 1 – Map showing how the 1930s residential security map still impacted the 2010 population distribution. able areas primarily (and often exclusively) to majority (white) population members. In a similar manner, minority populations would only be offered mortgage options in the least desirable areas.

The second effect of this zoning pattern was that the value of more desirable locations would rise while that of less desirable loca-

tions would fall, thus perpetuating this cycle.

Using statistics from the last official U.S. Census (2010), Weber State University graduate student Amanda Cooley conducted a spatial analysis on how Salt Lake City’s population is still impacted by policies started in 1930 (see chart). Her work makes it abundantly clear that the most de-

sirable land tracts (green and light blue shaded areas in the map) have consistently been inhabited by predominantly white residents (dark blue circles—the size of the circle being proportional to white population) and the least desirable areas (light yellow and red shaded areas in the map) are home to Black and Hispanic residents (bright yellow circles

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Higher tree cover rates are associated with higher income and lower minority population.

trations. This makes sense because the built environment will generate emissions through either vehicular traffic or other building activity.

The same study also found a relationship between household poverty and PM2.5 concentrations.

However, it is less straightforward.

This is because some wealthy community members live in the central parts of Salt Lake County which have high levels of pollution. Similarly, some low-income communities reside in the outer fringes of the county which have comparatively cleaner air.

This article is by no means a comprehensive description of redlining and the history of housing discrimination and readers are encouraged to research on their own from many of the available sources.

However, our intention was to showcase how 1930s policies have shaped our community and how their effects are still felt in the present. Until next time! ◆

represent Black population and light purple circles represent Hispanic— the size of the circle being proportional to minority population).

The center of the map is Temple Square. The West side is mainly graded “D” (hazardous) and “C” (definitely declining) compared to the East side, which is predominantly “A” (best) and “B” (still desirable). Also notable is that commercial land is mainly in the central part of the city and industrial land is on West side— and these two land-use types have the highest minority population concentrations.

Trees: a mark of wealth Much research has focused on the land use differences across cities. An often-used comparison is tree cover versus sociodemographic factors.

Tree cover offers multiple benefits, but these benefits come at a cost, which generally only wealthier populations can afford. Among the benefits are beautification, temperature regulation (a recent study shows that areas around Liberty Park and Sugar House Park can be up to three degrees cooler in the summer), and cleaner air (both from higher levels of oxygen and particle filtration).

Trees require regular care. The presence of trees also means that real estate will not be used to house people or commercial entities, thus increasing the cost per square foot of land. Therefore, it comes as no

Daniel Mendoza is a Visiting Assistant Professor in City and Metropolitan Planning and a Research Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah.

surprise that multiple studies show higher tree cover rates are associated with higher income and lower minority population.

Air quality As Utahns are reminded every winter, PM2.5 (tiny particulate matter, 2.5 microns) has many negative health impacts, ranging from pulmonary and cardiovascular to even mental health. A recent study has found that increasing built cover (anything that is human-made such as roads, homes, buildings) is associated with higher pollutant concen-

The most desirable land tracts have consistently been inhabited by predominantly white residents and the least desirable areas are home to Black and Hispanic residents.

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Another thing I didn’t do this year Treasure your memories

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BY DENNIS HIMKAMP

can’t remember many specific Will the various absences make member the smell of port-o-potties dates since March 15th and my heart grow fonder? I don’t know. in the morning, the rebar wounds, that’s okay. Turns out you really I do know I’m not missing profes- everybody else’s annoying music, the don’t look at the calendar so sional and college sports as much as uninvited naked guy, the guy with much as you feel your way through I thought I would. However, ab- his camera in your face, those two sinthe, the licorice-flavored green times I got pink eye from swimming the year on the braille of events. in Pyramid Lake on the It’s time for the first way in, that clown fresh tomato sandwich thing that ended up in or that last woody corn the county court, the on the cob of the season. flat tires, sunburn, It’s time for the sunsets windburn and dust storm burn. Of course, to have a spectacular yes, I remember some wildfire haze filter and of the good old days of fewer air conditioner communal mud baths nights. Spared the anand widespread anarnoyance of birthdays, chy. I remember when anniversaries and holifounder Larry Harvey days, we would still find was alive. our way.

I read about some I’m feeling a little hot study that if you and restless right now as walked around in Dennis Hinkamp (in red shirt) with his Media Mecca crew from Burning Man 2019. complete darkness I write this in early September because I sense I should be liquor with purported hallucino- without reference points you’d end somewhere else. I should be at genic properties which was a fa- up walking in a circle. I don’t know if Burning Man. That’s where I have vorite in the first roaring ‘20s (sales that is true, but it sure feels like been, roughly this time and temper- are banned in U.S. bars and liquor that’s the current reality. stores but it’s legal to possess—go As an unhumorous aside can I say: ature, for the last 22 years; nearly figure) could certainly make my Can we just stop yelling at each one-third of my life. heart feel fonder right now. I think I other and pause? People are dying Burning Man was one of the many just wrote a new aphorism: Absinthe sad normal lonely deaths in the events to cancel due to the C-word. might not make your heart grow middle of this pandemic and this Like many canceled events, there fonder but it will help you forget what horrible election. It would be hyperhave been and will be virtual bytes you thought you missed. Cut and bole of me to say I lost a close friend, of the real thing to lead you on. paste and share with all your friends but she was a close acquaintance; There is virtually no way I’m going to so that I can become an influencer. she died peacefully of pancreatic do Burning Man virtually. I’m not The thing that works for me when cancer August 23. Treasure your even going to try. My memories and I’m pining for the one-year-ago old memories. Good night, Sandy; you Covid dreams are better and don’t good times is to recall the bad parts always lit up the room. ◆ require a headset. I may change my of the good times. I had a lot of Dennis Hinkamp suggests you hug the ones you can mind if it is canceled for the next crappy times at Burning Man. I re- and virtually hug those you can’t. three years.

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SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E 3900 S & W Jordan: 801.446.0499, 1817 W 9000 S. We focus on health & holistic living through education, empowerment and highquality products. With supplements, homeopathics, herbs, stones, books and beauty care products, we provide you with the options you need to reach your optimum health. Certified professionals also offer private consultations. www.DavesHealth.com

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APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique 10/20DA

801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy since 1987. www.BlueBoutique.com

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801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. Jewelry, clothing, incense, ethnic art, pottery, candles, chimes and much more! www.DancingCranesImports.com

Golden Braid Books DA 11/20

801.322.1162, 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city.

Offerings include gifts and books to feed mind, body, spirit, soul and heart; luscious health care products to refresh and revive; and a Lifestyles department to lift the spirit. www.GoldenBraidBooks.com

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Utah Eckankar 9/20

801.542.8070. 8105 S 700 E, Sandy. Eckankar teaches you to be more aware of your own natural relationship with the Divine Spirit. Many have had spiritual experiences and want to learn more about them and how they can help us in our daily lives. All are welcome. www.eckankar-utah.org

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Two Arrows Zen Center 3/20DA

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SLC. Two Arrows Zen is a center for Zen study and practice in Utah with two location: SLC & Torrey. The ArtSpace Zendo in SLC offers daily morning meditation and a morning service and evening sit on Thursday. TAZ also offers regular day-long intensives—Day of Zen—and telecourses. www.TwoArrowsZen.org

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A compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond.

Oct 8 Pick up a variety of root crops at the farmers market this week. Buy some to culture—say, cabbage and carrots with your favorite seasoning (I like fresh ginger and cumin). In a few days your ferment will be delicious and teeming with the beneficial bacteria that make your gut healthy.

Oct 9 Save up to 10% on heating costs by reversing the direction of your ceiling fans. A clockwise rotation at low speed pulls cool air up which pushes warm air down along the walls and back to the floor.

Oct 10 Not up for a fullfledged yard sale or even a trip to the D.I.? Put stuff on the curb with a "free “sign.

Oct 11 If you wake up feeling dehydrated, here may be why: We

lose about a liter of water each night via the humidity in our breath, according to Michael Breus, the Sleep

Oct 13 Speaking of changing leaves: There may still be time.

Check out Smokymountains.com, a fall color tracking tool. Updated weekly.

Oct 14 If you’re a registered voter in Utah, your ballot will be mailed between now and October 27. If you do not receive a ballot shortly after this time, immediately contact your county clerk’s office. SL County: 385-468-7400.

Doctor. He also reports insufficient sleep can disrupt the release of vasopressin, a hormone that is key to hydration.

Oct 12 Yet another reason to not get Covid right now: You’d miss out on all the great autumnal smells.

Bring on the cinnamon, nutmeg, apples, marigolds and falling leaves!

Oct 15 Conflict Resolution Day, today, celebrates the peacemakers among us. Interested in becoming a mediator?

Check out UtahDisputeResolution.org Oct 16 NEW MOON @ 1:32pm. No moonlight. Are the fires over? Pack your warm clothes and head south for a good look at the Milky Way. Oct 17 Many SLC neighborhoods,

especially near the University, have flocks of California quail. They were introduced to Fort Douglas in 1869 as a game bird. Each year, wildlife biologists capture some to relocate to rural areas where food supply for the birds will be more secure, and to increase their habitat range.

Oct 18 Time to sign up for National Novel Writing Month. Take up the challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel during the 30 days of November. NaNoWriMo.org

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Oct 21 Orionids M e t e o r Shower is produced by dust grains left behind

by Halley’s comet, observed since anc i e n t times. The shower

runs from October 2 to November 7 but peaks tonight.

Oct 19 If you see spiders in your garden, leave them alone. They are the only natural enemy of the brown marmorated stinkbug, a garden pest which first arrived in Utah from Asia (via eastern states) in 2012.

Oct 20 While they look bulky, porcupines weigh only 9-13 lbs. They can live up to 30 years, at least in captivity. They are mating (noisily) this month in Utah. In seven months, one baby will be born.

The quills, soft at birth,

Oct 22 If you’re trying to come up with a unique scary costume this year, consider these fears: Xanthophobia: fear of the color yellow. Turophobia: fear of cheese. Coulrophobia: fear of clowns. Hylophobia: fear of trees.

Omphalophobia: fear of the navel.

Nomophobia: fear of being without mobile phone coverage.

Oct 23 Time to check the we at h e rstripping a ro u n d doors and window.

Sealing gaps may reduce your energy bill by up to 15%.

Oct 24 European Union law bans 1,328 chemicals from personal-care products. By contrast, the U.S. FDA has banned or restricted only 11.

Oct 25 Wonder where dust comes from? Half of it comes from your body. Each human sloughs off an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every minute, day in and day out!

Oct 26 A squirrel wisely squirrels away its food in various larders in-

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stead of putting all its nuts in one basket, so to speak. But first it licks the food or rub it on its face, marking it with it’s scent, making the food easier to locate later.

Oct 27 Cloacal aspiration: buttbreathing. Turtles do it. The area, well-vascularized, absorbs oxygen from cold water, enabling turtles to overwinter in the bottom of rivers, ponds and lakes.

we lose an additional three minutes of daylight every day. The rate then gradually slows; by the end of the month, it’s down to only one per day, continuing until the Winter Solstice.

Nov 3 Election Day! Vote like the future depends on it. Because it does. off the sprinkler system and drain and store hoses.

Oct 28 Unless you’re twins, no two people in your family are exactly alike genetically. Apples are like that, too. In fact, all the seeds in every apple on a tree can make other trees that are all different from each other, and likely “sour enough to set a squirrel’s teeth on edge and make a jay scream,” in the immortal words of Thoreau. Which is why grafting of the tasty ones has been the reproductive choice of orchardists since the first millennium B.C.E.

Nov 1 Daylight Saving Time ends today at 2am. Sunrise: 6:58am. Sunset: 5:23pm. Bicyclists, be sure you have your lights about you!

Oct 29 Time to blow out and shut

Nov 2 For the next couple weeks,

Oct 30 "I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. “—Anne Shirley, in Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery Oct 31 FULL MOON @ 08:51am.

It’s a Blue Moon (the second full moon this month) as well as Halloween. Average temps today: high 58º, low 39º. Sunrise: 7:57am. Sunset: 6:24pm.

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of melt right at the surface when thoughts of you, as well.

Nov 12 Go on an art walk. Snap you pre-apply, and even a very small Nov 8 In Scotland, November 8 is photos of images you find interestamount of chemical will then pre- kept as Dunce Day. This Fool’s Day ing or beautiful. vent that area from freezing. was named after Duns Sco- Nov 13 Wild turkeys are badass.

Note: This doesn’t work tus, a ninth century They sleep in trees, can fly 55 mph applied on top of unscholar who created a in short bursts, have periscopic vishoveled snow. cone-shaped hat to sion, gobble loud enough to be Nov 6 If you have energize the brain of heard over a mile away and turn ivy growing up a his foolish students. crazy colors when aroused. A group building or fence Nov 9 Stroll through of turkeys is called a gang, posse, (did you notice that the garden to see raffle, crop or dole. last month the bees what’s still green (and Nov 14 NEW MOON @ 10:08pm. went nuts with the fraedible). You should still see What will you begin today? grant flowers?) it’s now thyme, sage, mint, oregano time to prune that ivy. Virginia and rosemary. Think tea, stews, herb Nov 15 For almost 70 years, Utah creeper, too. Go for branches that butter. Or freeze or dry for later use. has been cloud seeding to increase snowpack aka our water supply. have detached (they will not reatNov 10 Wonder why your mamGround-based seeders, placed tach) and those encroaching on gutmalian pets lie in the sun and lick along foothills and higher elevaters and trees. themselves? Their skin extions, shoot silver iodide Nov 7 Average first day of snow. udes an oil that, when exinto winter clouds. Ice crysBlow off the snowblower. Shoveling posed to sun, becomes tals form around the partiis not what it used to be. The new, vitamin D. When they cles and fall to Earth as ergonomic shovels are smaller and groom themselves, they snow, glorious snow. The lighter, and make lifting and tossing are also ingesting the vitalow-concentration silver ioa lot easier and safer. Of course, do min. Clever! dide seeds are similar to it right: Use your legs, not your back. what’s found in water puriAnd if you know you’re in not-so- Nov 11 Indian Summer is a fiers and medicines. It’s far good shape, enlist a job-sharer. period of abnormally warm below the concentration Note: If you do have a snowblower weather following the Cloud seeder at night. found in iodized salt. ◆ North American and you’re going to fire it up, you killing freeze of autumn. A Courtesy Weather Consultants Greta Belanger deJong is editor and might as well be generous. Your killing freeze occurs when founder of CATALYST. Diane Olson wrote this column the overnight temperature reaches neighbors will be thrilled to look out for many years. Gretchen@CatalystMagazine.net/ and see their own sidewalks are 28 degrees or colder and may occur clean. And they will think kind with or without frost.

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Pre- and post-election “A mess monster of astronomical proportions”

Osho ZenTarot: Comparison, Fighting Medicine Cards: Rabbit, Turkey Mayan Oracle:Imix, Cimi AncientEgyptianTarot:King of Disks, Ace of Wands Aleister Crowley Deck: Ace of Swords, Princess of Swords, The Empress Healing Earth Tarot: High Priestess, Ace of Crystals, Eight of Wands.

Words ofTruth: Exhaustion, Conflict, Seeking, Heart, Stuck, Process

After the Election:

Osho ZenTarot: Possibilities Medicine Cards: Fox Mayan Oracle: Etznab Ancient EgyptianTarot: Eight of Swords Aleister Crowley Deck: Ace of Swords, Pleasure, Debauch, Futility Healing Earth Tarot: Nine of Feathers Words ofTruth: Humor, Commitment, Continuum

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s with all things in this world at this time, major changes are afloat. This issue of CATALYST covers portions of both October and November. The next issue will be the 400th CATALYST and its last, at least in this format, for the foreseeable future.

To navigate the coming November intensity I’ve combined information from before and after the election.

Please bear with me as I do my best to objectively look at the patterns unfolding over the next two months. I am removing the people and the personal from this reading; we will look at the patterns only.

No one expects the 2020 presidential election to be decided by the morning of November 4. Instead, look to midDecember, possibly December 21, after

two big, bad planets move into Aquarius: Jupiter on December 15 and Saturn on December 17.

That sets the stage for a massive global shift into the progressive ideas and intentions of Aquarius. That pattern will set the stage for the upcoming year.

Because so many big planets are at their endpoints in Capricorn, the energy of big, slow-moving planets at the end degrees muddies the clarity and makes us have to really look at the unfinished issues. Clearly our world and our country are struggling to find any sort of resolution that everyone will agree with. This election will not clarify that in a way anyone wants.

In March of 2023, Pluto will go into Aquarius. This big shift marks an end of this disturbing backward motion from totalitarian leaders around the globe.

I don’t think we’ll have resolution about the past, nor will we have taken steps towards reparations. But I do believe there is a turning of the tide of consciousness.

So while this last quarter of 2020 is a mess monster of astronomical proportions, it does herald a shift of sorts.

Much will still need to be done. It will

BY SUZANNE WAGNER take decades (yes, I said decades) to pull us out of the hole we have put ourselves in. But I have hope that at the end of this cycle, a constructive shift will begin to unfold.

In a nutshell, October is a time when the exhaustion of all this conflict really begins to take a toll on our hearts. Finding understanding and connection will be next to impossible except within our most intimate group. Family, however you define it, is everything. Stay close, stay open and available.

There is a feeling of death in the air.

But from death comes rebirth. It’s the way of things in this reality. None of us can escape it. And the cards reflect that in many ways.

People are fired up, wanting answers.

But answers will be intentionally withheld. When those in power are threatened, the choices and actions of those they control can be extremely dangerous.The stage is set for a dark and difficult experience.

But the card Cimi reminds us to not give up. Cimi indicates that there will be a New Way forward. The old has died.

What is clear is that we are moving into a progressive time of massive change starting in December 2020.

The actions of the last four years will take decades to correct and reconstruct. The next three years will be particularly challenging.

We will all have to discover what it will take for our country to decide to heal and come back together. ◆ NOTE: Suzanne’s Utah visits to Salt Lake City have been canceled till further notice.. Connect with her via www.SuzanneWagner.com/

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