~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: Sept 22, 2018 ~~

Life in the West

Ø Make Sure You’re Registered to Vote!  If you’re new in town, or have changed houses, you need to fill out a registration form and get it to the court house PDQ.

   Call 678-2851 or 678-2474 if you need a form

 

Ø Meditations on Industrial Tourism

“Draw a boundary around a landscape, give it a national monument or park designation, and slap a name on it, and you’ve reduced something indescribable and wondrous to a brand, a slogan, a commodity to be marketed to the masses. Impose upon it a bunch of rules, entry fees, campgrounds, and designated trails, and you take away a freedom that is inherent to the place.”

Ø The Bureau of Land Management will hold 3 public meetings as part of the land use planning related to the new Bears Ears Monument.  See article on the right.

Ø One Source of Public Lands Funding Expires in Sept.

n  Deadline for Comments On Uranium Mill/ Energy Fuels Extended

  Addresses for writing Due Sept. 25

n  Get Phil Lyman Elected: You Can Help

n  Governor Herbert Believes Utah Can Better Manage Forests

n  Sec. Zinke to visit Zions Park 9/24/18  Looking at “Deferred Maintainance”

n  Should Las Vegas Pump Water It Doesn’t Own?

n  Political/ Geographic Divide Hurts Public Lands

“Casey Snider, Bishop's former legislative director and a volunteer firefighter, said status quo management of the forests will only lead to more catastrophic wildfires.

"When it comes to fire, you are either going to graze it, log it or burn it out on public lands," Snider said. "The idea that everything is fine if we just do nothing is completely, factually inaccurate."

n  Environmentalists Protest Sale of Public Lands for Oil/Gas Development

n  High Country News Questions SJC Promotion

n  Trump’s Attack on Public Lands Could Help Demo Mid Term Elections

n  Alliance for Better Utah Promoting Tourism

n  Alliance For a Better Utah Intent on Smearing San Juan County

Recent Letter Sent to a Constituent by Alliance for a Better Utah: 

Things are running amuck in San Juan County.

San Juan County Clerk, John David Nielson, doctored election documents to keep Navajo community leader and County Council candidate, Willie Grayeyes, off November’s ballot. This is another incident in a long line of either rampant incompetence or active voter suppression on the part of elections officials in San Juan County to keep the “good ol’ boys” of San Juan in power.

But Alliance for a Better Utah is fighting back.

We’re on the offensive, letting San Juan County voters know Willie’s story and the illegal activities of John David Nielson with targeted ads, but we need your help. We’re looking to raise $1,000 today to get ads placed and the word out. Will you help us reach our goal with a donation of $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford today?

For too long, underrepresented voices have been shut out of the conversation. It’s time to push back. With your support, we will continue to monitor the situation in San Juan County, call out officials for incompetent, immoral, and illegal behavior, and, if necessary, take legal action to ensure this doesn't happen again.

Your donations today will count toward our Political Accountability Fund goal of raising $10,000 by the end of the month and show the “good ol’ boys” of San Juan County and elsewhere that we’re fed up with politics as usual. Please give today.

Sincerely,

Chase Thomas
Executive Director

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Alliance for a Better Utah          (We all should write and protest)
P.O. Box 521847
Salt Lake City, UT 84152
801-893-ABU1 (2281)
info@betterutah.org

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