vBe sure to
Vote: Nov. 7, Tuesday, or mail in your
Ballot
vvForest
Service meeting this week: San Juan County Commissioner meeting Tuesday Oct 24th at the Monticello community/senior
center. The local Forest Service Agency presentation at 9:45 am, with a Q &
A session. If you care about cattle grazing, road obliteration; if you are
against the USFS creating a large wilderness area in the forest; or are
concerned about limiting access to ATV's, and perhaps firewood gathering,
hunting, and all other recreational opportunities in the Manti La Sal Forest, you ought to go to the meeting. It
starts at 9:00, Forest Service scheduled at 9:45. But come early in case they
are ahead of schedule.
v Satire of the week:
v Roast Marshmallows, Not Forests “We cannot preserve a beautiful forest forever
like a photograph, because it is still growing, and eventually dying. Today’s
overgrown national forests produce at least twice as much new growth as
managers remove every year, so the situation continues to get worse while
Congress fiddles. Our generation has thus squandered the great legacy of the
conservation movement, our national forests.”
Good News Bears
n
Definitely time for Antiquities Act Reform Op-ed
by Matt Anderson
“According to a tally from that year,
there were more than 20 federal agencies or departments that EACH had MORE personnel than Congress.
The Department of Agriculture alone had nearly six times more employees
(95,223 vs. 16,432). Utah State Rep. Ken Ivory (R), co-chair of the Commission
on Federalism, describes America’s current state as a bike with lopsided tires
– one overinflated, the other completely flat. To him, it’s not so much
about who is holding the handlebars. America simply can’t move forward until
the air pressure is more equitably distributed.
So in February, members of Utah’s Commission on Federalism, with
Trumpian winds at their back, drew up a list of more than five pages of powers they’d
like to bring back to the state. Among them: Mitigate catastrophic fire risk on
national forests and rangelands.”
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Documenting
Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016
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