Bear Essentials April 30, 2017

 

'In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,

but the silence of our friends'.    Martin Luther King

Thank you to all who wrote to defend Mia Love (on her official FB site).  It would be important to do that for all our Congressmen as well. They continue to be under attack.

Follow Stewards of San Juan

          Beyond Standing Rock: Beyond Standing Rock–

airs on KUED Sunday Apr 30th, 3:00pm

n  Antiquities Act Review, Restoring Hope to Rural America   This contains a great overview and lists of all monuments of the past 21 years.

n  Bears Ears at the Center of a National Antiquities Act Review    The Presidential Order directed Zinke and his department to conduct a review of monument designations over the last 21 years of 100,000 acres or greater, with an interim report due in 45 days and a final report expected in 120 days. Now is the time to write!

n  CRITICAL! Please continue to let these people in the Department of Interior know your concerns and the issues that Rural America faces.  In less than 40 days, Sec. Zinke will make interim recommendations.  Share your stories and concerns NOW.  Our message is still “Rescind Bears Ears” and you can explain why. You can also call: (202) 208-3100.

Zinke’s e-mail   exsec_exsec@ios.doi.gov   or https://www.doi.gov/contact-us/

n  Amy_Holley@ios.doi.gov,             Mary_Kendall@doioig.gov,
debra_dumontier@ost.doi.gov,     john_burden@ios.doi.gov,
sylvia_burns@ios.doi.gov,            megan_olsen@ios.doi.gov,
maureen_foster@ios.doi.gov       michael_reynolds@nps.gov,

jim_kurth@fws.gov,                      mike.black@bia.gov,
weldon.loudermilk@bia.gov,        tony.dearman@bie.edu,
richard_cardinale@ios.doi.gov,    kbail@blm.gov,

gowens@osmre.gov,                    walter.cruickshank@boem.gov,

Margaret.Schneider@bsee.gov,   kerry_rae@ios.doi.gov,

whwerkhe@usgs.gov,                   dmurillo@usbr.gov,
nikolao_pula@ios.doi.gov,            Jim.Cason@comcast.net,

douglas.w.domenech@ptt.gov,     scott1092@gmail.com,
olivia_ferriter@ios.doi.gov,            Maria_Gonzalez@ios.doi.gov,
harry_humbert@ios.doi.gov,         Stephen_Hardgrove@doioig.gov,
Melinda.Loftin@sol.doi.gov

  

Good News Bears

n  Secretary Zinke’s Press Conference Prior to Presidential Order

n  Video & Story of President Trump’s Presidential Order to Review all Monuments from past 21 years.

n  USA Today article of Trumps Executive Order

n  Federal Land Grabs have gotten out of Control

n  The Bears Ears: The Last Straw In Monument Abuses

n   Chad Booth Interview with Phil Lyman broadcast on County Seat

n  Loving the Stuffing out of Bears Ears

n  Shumway Cabin at Fiddler Green to be restored.  Help needed

n  Government rollbacks in Trumps First 100 Days

  

Bad News Bears

n  Protecting National Monuments Good for Colorado  Contact Senator Bennett: https://www.bennet.senate.gov/?p=contact

n  Trump Singles Out Bears Ears as an Abuse of Federal Power

n  Outdoor Life Chastises Zinke.    They take comments – write

n  Patagonia threatens to sue White House over 4-26 Executive Order.

n  Protest March in Cortez 4/29

n  Every State Should Care about What Happens to Cliven Bundy

n  Interview with Ammon Bundy 4/27/2017     (turn up sound)

n  Former Secretary Jewell Defends the Monument Process    

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Bear Essentials April 26, 2017

                 Beyond Standing Rock. KUED Channel 7 ~~ Sunday April 30, 3 PM

Follow Stewards of San Juan

n  Senator Hatch’s Presentation to the Senate.  Look for big things to start happening.

n  Trump and Hatch look at Rolling Back Two Decades of Monument Land Grabs

n  Senator Orrin Hatch visited Bears Ears April 20 and met with county leaders, and local people.  Follow his FB page to see what happens next.

n  Trump to order Review of Bears Ears, SL Trib Article  (now’s a good time to write)

n  Dodge City takeaway information:  Kansas leads the way in protecting private property  Since it was formed in March of 2013, KNRC has had an impact on local and national natural resources policy. The member counties of KNRC use scientifically-based insight and knowledge of existing law to impact policies which are of interest to property owners, ranchers, farmers, and rural communities across the country. KNRC is not afraid to take on federal policies, such as the Endangered Species Act, or the aggressive and well-funded special interests which abuse such policies to exert control over land and resources.

n  Notes from conference are attached to this same e-mail.  Thanks Donna Singer!

n  The Real Danger to Bears Ears  by Jim Stiles in Adventure Journal.  Lots of comments following the article. Add yours.

n  Please let the Department of Interior know your concerns and the issues that Rural America faces, (especially as it relates to San Juan County, Utah)  Rescind Bears Ears and why.

~~Write a concise, factual e-mail to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. Edit carefully, then paste into e-mail.  Next copy and paste the following e-mail addresses as BCC (blind carbon copy) and you can send then all at the same time. Please e-mail the following and get your family and friends to do likewise:   Zinke’s e-mail   exsec_exsec@ios.doi.gov

 Good News Bears

n   Trump could be rolling back Obama’s NM designation.  Pay attention to the news.

n  Zinke orders BLM 'back to the drawing board' on land use, NEPA

n  Alaska Sues Federal Government over State’s right to Control River

n  It’s time to Reform the Antiquities Act.    plus   Op-ed by Matt Anderson

n   Nevada Challenges Sage Grouse rules

n  Los Angeles Reporter investigates Bears Ears; locals interviewed

n  New way to look at Natural Resources from Forbes     …”nature gives us very few directly usable machine energy resources. Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature. What applies to the raw materials of coal, oil and gas also applies to every raw material in nature—they are all potential resources, with unlimited potential to be rendered valuable by the human mind.

Ultimately, a resource is just matter and energy transformed via human ingenuity to meet human needs. Well, the planet we live on is 100% matter and energy, 100% potential resource for energy and anything else we would want…

The amount of raw matter and energy on this planet is so incomprehensibly vast that it is nonsensical to speculate about running out of it. Telling us that there is only so much matter and energy to create resources from is like telling us that there is only so much galaxy to visit for the first time. True, but irrelevant.”



Bad News Bears

n  Idaho faces similar DOI land grabs initiated by NGOs and the UN

n  Klamath Tribes Terminate Ranchers-Farmer’s Water Rights

n  UN’s Indigenous Sovereignty Rights Endangers Sovereignty of Property Rights

n  Jason Chaffetz Won’t Run in 2018 

n  Environmental Irony: Greens vs Greens: Oregon wind project loses battle with sage grouse!

Dodge City Land Use Convention Notes

By Donna Singer

NOTES FROM MEETINGS HELD WITH KNRC IN KANSAS -- MARCH 29-30,   2017

Taken by Donna Singer

Jim Carlson:  KNRS Goal:  Change America:  The organization has accepted a vision to change America back to what it was supposed to be.

 ~~Congressional Research Act:  Purpose is: Changing laws back to Real America.

 Re-establish a government “of, by, and for the people.  All people – not just the rich.

Power should flow from the bottom to the top---Not the Top to the bottom.

Yesterday an Executive Order was developed to get rid of the E.P.A.  Environmentalists no longer  have power or authority.  We need to be gate keepers.  We have to do the work to make positive changes.  (He is the one who encouraged us to write to those 29 DOI people)

Trent Loose:    Linger on language we use to communicate!

Take information home and communicate with local people in a way they understand.  Current Executive Orders are creating a great opportunity to change and make changes.  We must be engaged to make a Difference.

We need to develop and support a Representative Republic that depends on local input: individual input,  County and State Input.

Karen Budd-Falen:  Develop a guide for Local Influence on Federal Decisions (applause) Karen worked on Transition Team on Trump’s election with Transition as a Motto.  We need to push on all levels of Federal administration

Don’t go Home and Do Nothing       Write to the 29 Dept. of Interior people e-mailed this week)

Local governments will have significant influence on Change.

Local governments must be ready and DOING something

            Look at: Agencies, Manuals, Handbooks:  Review and make changes. Use Task Lists

Main Statutes To Become very familiar with:

  National Environmental Act – Statutory Authority and Federal Land Agency

Consistency Review:  If local government has a land issue policy, Federal Agency MUST reconcile any inconsistencies.  Caveat:  Local government can’t violate Federal law.  But otherwise, local laws take precedence.

1.     VISION:  Local Environment and Culture and economy

a.     Define the local Environment

b.     Determine what you want to see in local environment

c.      Resource utilization

d.     Management Plans

     

2.     CUSTOM AND CULTURE    =    Who We Are

a.      Local people and local Government processes

b.     Examine Jobs, Recreation, Shopping, Hunting, etc. that is important       

and common to area.

c.      Determine local tax base:  Forecast impact on tax base by local             

Government

d.     Introduce policies based on Data.   Reconcile County and state policies

e.     Demand legal rights to consistency and results:  Environmental, Cultural, and Land use policies with Accurate Descriptions and Consistency Reviews

MEET WITH FEDERAL AGENCIES CONSISTENTLY

      Develop Relationships!!

--Come up with ways that will work for local people and meet  federal and state  policies.

COORDINATION PROCESS:   Using relationships with other entities that would be impacted.  How can each organization provide input and support? Solve the problem locally. 

Cooperating Agency = The Local government!!  Charged with protecting local people and communities.  Coordination of tools of each Government / Public/Private Entity

              God gives Us Rights

Constitution was set up to keep the government from taking People’s Rights.  It binds all Federal agencies.  Currently,  Federal Agencies can do anything that is not prohibited by law. It should be individuals can do anything.    Ask “What statutes supports what a government agency is doing..” 

Intent of the Bill of Rights :  To Protect the individual and their private property and their individual Rights.  This is our Chance to Make It Right----If we don’t Take Action, We will lose the Chance.  Develop a Local Work Plan.  If funding for the plan comes from the Federal or State Government, the plan must follow Environmental Policies.

FEMA:  Define Custom and Culture:

History of the Area

·       WHAT DO THE LOCAL PEOPLE DO

·       Description of the local people over time

·       Current Use of land by local people

·       Benefits to the land by the rotation of utilization and cattle rotation, minimizing fire hazards with rotation of grazing, and Sacred use of herbs, berries, and firewood by generations of Native people.

·       How will this be affected by federal regulation or action?

Federal agencies have hi-jacked “environment” in many areas with National Monuments using Environmental Impact as a threat.    But desecration has increased in these designated areas  significantly .

                                   

If a local/County Sheriff is elected by the people, this individual has number one authority over Federal agents in Counties.     Check Old Records How will this affect Federal Agency policy?   Currently, FLPMA seeks to control land use by stripping away local control. 

Bear Essentials ~~ APRIL 16, 2017

Beyond Standing Rock. KUED Channel 7 ~~ Sunday April 30, 3 PM

~~ A Realistic View of the Bears Ears National Monument  Tribune Op-ed by Ryan Benally, Stewards of San Juan vice president

•     The Constituion Protects Citizens and States from Tyranny.   Tribune Op-ed by SJH Alumni, Donald Guymon

•      Would moving the BLM West bring more accountability?    
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•     Gem State Patriot says Federal Agencies need Eliminated
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•    Bills Transfering lands to State stewardship, processing through Congress

   ~~Charges filed against Franklin and Chilcoat  Endangerment of livestock SJRecord

          ~~Deseret News version                    

          ~~Salt Lake Tribune Version

*When commenting publicly on this story, or others which may be headed to court, It would be wise to step back and let the county pursue the charges.  Sometimes inflammatory remarks made in public have a way going awry and harming our cause.  Often anger speaks louder than wisdom.

~~ Ranchers and rural Oregon counties defend predator Control Program

 San Juan County ranchers/ farmers are invited to 2nd Annual Range Rights and Resource Symposium next month in Omaha, Nebraska. It's going to be an outstanding two days with speakers on private property and federal land management issues held at Bellevue University and will include a tour of the University of Nebraska Lincoln Research Center. For more info see http://rangerights.com 

• Continue to write to all agencies within the Department of Interior. 

Bad News Bears 

• Supreme Court partly to blame for Rural vs. Urban resentment 
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• United Nations “indigenous Peoples” rights declaration endangers States soverenty rights and personal property.

•      ATV Ban in Recapture Canyon Lifted by Sec. Zinke 
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•     BLM Decision promises more than it delivers.   E-mail or call:  Monticello office: utmtmail@blm.gov; State BLM Office: blm_ut_so_public_room@blm.gov; Moab District office: utmbmail@blm.gov; 202-208-3801 National BLM phone number
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•     Quote from Judge Judy relates to the article above: “Don’t pee on my shoes and try to tell me it’s raining.” 
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•      Free Range Report of Recapture Canyon Story  by Monte Wells

·       Letter received from the Monticello BLM Manager:

Hello Ms. Wilcox,

To your point that when comparing maps, most routes looked like they were already open for use - You are correct that trails in the area especially up on the west rim of Recapture canyon have remained open since 2007, and thus have continued to be used by the public.  However, these routes were not designated as open to motorized use in the 2008 Monticello Resource Management Plan (RMP). Without this latest decision, motorized use would not be able to be continued since those were not designated routes.  In the RMP it states, “Actual route designations can be modified without completing a plan amendment, although NEPA compliance is still required.”  This environmental assessment was the vehicle to make the determination as to whether the routes should be added to the Travel Management Plan or not. If a determination would not have been made in this analysis and decision, there would have had to be a whole separate analysis to determine possible continued use of those routes in order to be in compliance with the RMP.  It is unfortunate that the headline or title put on the Press Release has been interpreted by many to infer far more than what was actually part of the decision.

          Don Hoffheins

•     Moab Climbers support National Monument, even though they can already climb in Indian Creek

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For Bears Ears information the past nine months, go to

http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/