Posted as a comment to this article in the Washington Times
by Janet Wilcox
The proposed Bears Ears National Monument is more than a burr under the saddle of rural Utah. It jeopardizes basic State's rights, and bi-passes the Constitutionally guarantee of due process through legislative means. Utah has already given enough to the Federal Government. The State of Utah covers 52,696,960 acres. We have given up 35,033,603 acres to 13 different national parks/monuments. That means the Federal government owns/ runs/ manages 66% of our state. And now enviro-nazis want more. The scenario in San Juan County is even worse. Only 8% of San Juan County’s 5,077,120 acres is privately owned.
Those with a socialistic mind set don’t seem to grasp the idea that private property rights exist in the proposed Bears Ears monument area. Some areas in that coveted land do NOT meet the definition of “public lands”, including 43 grazing allotments, 661 water-right infrastructures, 151,000 acres of state trust land, 18,000 acres of private property, and hundreds of miles of roads and infrastructure which are granted a RS2477 right-of-way. Please help us in this David vs. Goliath fight. Write, call, protest with us. savebearsears.com
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