~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: May 25, 2018~~

vInsights on San Juan County’s Economic Status, Jobs, etc

v Commission Phil Lyman Speaks up about County Lawsuits

v Lyman’s Interview with Free Press Reporter Zak Podmore

v Chris Herrod Running for U.S. Representative

v Utah Statewide Archaeological Society Meets in Blanding June 8=9

v Primary Ballots will be mailed out the first part of June.  VOTE

v 17 Year olds Can Vote in the Primary Election – Get registered!

v Voting by Mail Increases Participation Wherever It’s Been Done

n Senator Lee Heads Committee Investigating Blanding Tragedy and BLM’s “Body County” mentality  Video

nGarfield Commissioner Pollock Describes Clinton’s Economic Disaster

      nMontana Has Misleading Green Push Polls Figured out too

   nCaptain Obvious Strikes Again:  There’s Coal in then Thar Hills

“The presence of one of the largest coal reserves on Earth was precisely the reason President Clinton created Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. A plan to reopen a once productive uranium mine was precisely the reason President Obama created Bears’ Ears National Monument.”

n  Greyeyes Fails to Prove Residency in Utah, Removed from Ballot

n  Many Benefits of Energy Development on Forest Service Lands

n  Mens Journal Visits all 50 States; Their Utah Choice: “The Most Disputed Monument” Bears Ears

“Bears Ears National Monument, which the Trump administration is in the process of downsizing, has long been at the center of the fight for public lands. It also happens to be one of the best places in the Southwest to explore. For starters, you can hike to the ruins known as House on Fire, Pueblo granaries at the base of a rock feature with swirling marks resembling flames. Then there are the North and South Six Shooters, twin sandstone towers that sit nearly 6,000 feet atop talus cones and are famous among rock climbers. What’s more, the upper section of the San Juan River, from the put-in at the Sand Island Recreation Area to the take-out at Mexican Hat, makes for a mellow paddle through scenic canyon country, with thousands of petroglyphs etched into the red cliffs. —Jayme Moye”

n  Good or Bad?  Black Diamond Company Plans to Expand in Utah – Irony at its best

n  Arizona Rep. Gosar Discusses Page Plant, Colorado River, & More

n  Senator Lee Proposes Bill Allowing Biking in Wildernss Areas

n  White Mesa Uranium Mill Only Conventional Plant licensed in the USA

  

n  How “Push Polls Pits Multiple Use Against Protection Policies

n  Will BLM be Accountable for Suicides Linked to Military Style Raids?

n  Chilcoat Trial Delayed

n  SUWA’s Scott Groene: Public Lands Don’t Belong to Locals

San Rafael Swell bill: "It protects less land as wilderness than is already protected for those values. It makes off-road vehicle problems worse with an unprecedented legislative scheme. It undoes a protected area for coal mining. It allows Utah politicians to sue the United States to put off-road vehicles through areas designated wilderness. And, as icing on the cake, it furthers the state of Utah’s grab at our public lands by handing management of federal lands over to local control, which will likely result in an ORV playground around Temple Mountain and more crowding around Goblin Valley."

n  Change:  Is Resistance Futile in San Juan County?  

(Written 4 years ago in the Canyon Zephyr.  If you’ve never read this article, tackle it now, including the comments at the end, and then consider San Juan’s future.) “It was, after all, the Grand Canyon Trust’s Bill Hedden who once proclaimed, “Industrial-strength recreation holds more potential to disrupt natural processes on a broad scale than just about anything else.”  Twenty years later, Hedden and the Trust and other “green” groups seldom talk about the recreation menace.  Now, turning wilderness into a cash cow is a favored strategy, not a shameless exploitation.”   Jim Stiles

n  U.S. Farmland Disappearing at 3 acres per Minute

n  SE Arizona Rancher Warns of Increased Illegal Immigration Shake Rattle & Troll

n  Nevada Rancher Worries About Water Rights/ Pipe Line

n  Forest Policies Jeopardizing the Future?  Bill Lane Center  Sanford

             Other Articles/ Events of Local Interest             

n  Salt Lake Tribune Lays off 1/3^rd of  Newspaper Employees

n  BLM Cutbacks Stops Utah Archeologists from attending Symposium

n  Impetus for Antiquities Act Began with U. Professor Cummings in SJC 

Winston Hurst has written several articles about Cummings’ explorations in San Juan County.  One is in Issue #13 of Blue Mt. Shadows (1994)

n  Annenberg Journalism Team from USC Investigates Rural Utah

n  Misrepresentations by Radical Greens Promote Myths of GE Dangers 

n  Candidates for Bluff Mayor and Council Speak

n  Dine’ Bekeya Appointee to Grave Protection and Reparations Group

n  Pulitzer Prize Winner’s New Book: The Last Cowboys

n  Rose Quintana’s Goals Regarding Bears Ears

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