~~ Bear Essentials ~January 10, 2018 ~~

vJohn Ruple Univ. of Utah Professor of Law, discusses Public Lands

v Is it time for Tax Payers to Stop Subsidizing Public Land’s Recreation?

v Christmas message from President Trump

 

Good News Bears

n  Congressional Hearings on H.R. 4532: SJC Nat’l Monuments  Jan 9, 2018

n  From Agriculture to Zinke: Biggest Stories of 2017

n  Is Fighting Climate Change Worth Sacrificing Modern Civilization?

As the Washington Post wrote last week, “The world is turning more and more to renewable sources of energy… to fight climate change. But what if climate change itself alters the distribution of wind, or sunlight… or river flows, and so changes or even shrinks the potential of these energy sources?” No source of energy is without problems, so what are we to do?

n  Protecting wilderness through tourism, an oxymoron  Moab Sun Times

n  Judge Dismisses Case Against the Bundy Family members !!!

n  Oregon Live Details Bundy Case Dismissal

“U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case last month, saying federal prosecutors willfully withheld evidence that lawyers for the Bundys and alleged co-conspirator Ryan Payne should have had access to while mounting their defense.

She said the attorneys were in violation of the Brady rule, which requires prosecutors to disclose evidence that could be favorable to a defendant, and told them it wasn’t possible to proceed with the case.

On Monday, she dismissed the case “with prejudice,” meaning the government cannot retry the defendants. “The court finds that the universal sense of justice has been violated,” Navarro said.

n  Bill Boyle Confronts False Claim of Durango Writer  Durango Herald

“A frustrating reality of life in San Juan County is we are subject to gross mischaracterizations and, all too often, outright fabrications. I am afraid that Wells’ letter may play well in areas where the lack of knowledge of basic facts makes it easy to manipulate public opinion.”

n  The Best Memes of 2017

n  Feds Urge Court to Dismiss Climate Lawsuit Using Children as Pawns

n  Anti-Fracking Groups in Trouble with the Courts

n  Using Bacteria to Clean up Oil Spills and Cheat Grass

n  Compliance Extension for Livestock Haulers until March

   Bad News Bears

n  Laws Suits Challenge Pres. Trump resizing of National Monument

n  Lobbists and Politicians using Tribal Monies to “Fertilize the Swamp”

n  Chapoose says Fight for Redesignation is still on  NPR

n  Garon Coriz plays the Sympathy card

n  Supreme Court Rejects Rinehart Mining Case

n  Collusion between anti-mining activists and USFS

n  Native Americans used as Window Dressing   Garon Coriz  (Read Paul Jones, the lone defender of the Constitution, in the comments)

n  Native Radicals fail to obey USFS regulations at Nizhoni Campground

n  Riparian Areas in Calif. Damaged by Unmanaged Wild Horses

Drought Conditions in San Juan; please pray for snow!

                   

           Other Articles/ Events of Local Interest

v U of U Workshop on Environmental Racism Jan. 17

v Canyon Zephyr: Concerns related to State Control of Public Lands

v The Night Before Taxmas by Paul Ryan (Dec. 12 -Pretty Clever!)

v Animal Rights Jihadists Attack WesternTraditions

v Winter Solstice and Dancing Bears in Bluff

v Nat’l Geographic Explains Myths related to UNESCO Heritage Sites

v Help Free the Hammonds

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