~~ Bear Essentials ~January 17, 2018 ~~

v  Is this Bill a Compromise we can live with?  HR4532

If NOT, then we need to speak up now.

v Email John Curtis  https://curtis.house.gov/contact/email

v John Curtis video explaining HR4532 Bill

v Press Release from John Curtis concerning Monuments

“This bill also has a mineral withdrawal for the original 1.35-million-acre designation under President Obama. This bill is about protecting areas, not opening mining, or oil and gas, development.”

v Shash Jaa’ being promoted already—Life Elevated

v Or was it promoted in 2016?

n  Public Lands Council Patch…challenges Patagonia  Some humor!

n  Drain the Swamp before Relocating Fed. Agencies

n  BLM Requesting Input from SJC  San Juan Record

n  How to Refocus the Antiquities Act  Washington Examiner

n  Smaller Monuments Equals Better Access for Disabled

n  New BLM Management Plan for Bears Ears?  KSL

n  Recapture Canyon, the back story and beyond

n  Better Representation for Utah Navajos Alfred Ben

n  Congress Criticizes BLM Actions: Bundy & Steinle Cases

“On January 10, Rob Bishop and Bruce Westerman of the House Natural Resources Committee wrote a letter to the Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Brian Steed, citing flagrant ethical and legal violations by agents involved in a number of high profile and deadly incidents.”

n  This Week’s San Juan Record via video summary by Bill Boyle

n  Curtis, Bishop Bill Does No Good for San Juan County  Phil Lyman

” The first paragraph of the bill, the first action, is to withdraw all of the original 1.35 million acres of land designated under the Obama Bears Monument from any future mineral extraction. This was done for one purpose and one purpose only, to appease the environmentalists.”

n  Militarization of BLM

n  Tribal Commission grumbling about Curtis Bill

n  Shash Jaa’ Commission Fights to protect “their” land  Trailer

Drought Conditions in San Juan; please continue to pray for snow!

                   

           Other Articles/ Events of Local Interest

v Help Free the Hammonds

v Flashback Video from 2015 of BLM Burning Hammond rangeland

v Suggestion for Controlling Congestion at Arches Nat’l Park

v Help Support Free Range Report – Truth in the West

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 http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/          

                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

~~ Bear Essentials ~ Dec. 1, 2017 ~~

Plan to attend Saturday’s (Dec. 2) “Thank you" Rally  County Court House Monticello 11 AM. 

We have much to celebrate! Plan to participate

 – Bring signs, Make noise, Talk to visitors & Media  

Even the Bears are Celebrating!

Monday:  Big Reveal at the State Capitol Noon

Live Stream: Hideout in Monticello

Ticket Availability is iffy, but lots of space outside.

Check Save the Bears Ears FB for updates

v Phase II: Exempt Utah from future Antiquities Act Atrocities (Free Range)

The Petroglyph: “Senator Hatch and Congressman Bishop should take this opportunity to pass a bill in congress that will make Utah exempt from the Antiquities Act just like Wyoming. That would prevent this from ever happening again.... Now is the time for our Utah Senator's and Congressman to support President Trumps actions and to protect Utah from the billion dollar a year environmental industry. Now that would be something to brag about.... Everyone should contact Hatch and Bishop and tell them to do Contact Senator Hatch:

v Express your appreciation and concerns:   Write or Call the President:

Write to Secretary Zinke: Dept. of the Interior  1849 C Street, N.W.  Wash. DC 20240 

v Recommendations on SJC voting Districts Submitted (San Juan Record)

Good News Bears

n  President Trump to Announce Resizing of BENM  Dec. 4 in SLC

n  Two Monuments in Utah to be Resized

n  Potential BLM Head Vows to Push for Local Involvement

n  Water for Food Production Must be Top Priority

n  Hunting Provides Economic Benefit and Land Conservation

n  San Juan County suing BLM for Road Closure

n  BLM and FBI Exposed in Bundy Case

  







Bad News Bears 
                  

n  Eco-Snobbery Reveals Contradictions and Choices based on Fallacies

n  Lies and Malfeasance in Bundy Trial

n  UN Uses Public-Private Partnership as Backdoor for Global Policies

n  Western leaders say NEPA a Costly Impediment to Energy Development

Other issues related to San Juan County

 “If the divisive and painful battles over monuments are to be ameliorated, the Antiquities Act must be reformed. But, there is something Utah can do in the meantime–given the self-inflicted paralysis plaguing our moribund Congress. Utah can exempt itself from the Antiquities Act, and future monument designations. And yes, it’s been done before; by Wyoming and Alaska.” Majorie Haun

“Western states and their citizens are not equal. Contrary to the intent of the framers of the Constitution, they are awed “into an undue obedience” to the federal government.”

Roosevelt’s 1906 Antiquities Act has been manipulated and misused by a long chain of presidents. It is time to change executive overreach, and implement legislation whereby such designations are required to have congressional approval.  Our duly elected officials must be included in those important decisions, which directly affect individual states and rural America.

                        “Impoverished western counties dominated by federally claimed land

                                        are exporting children and importing poverty.”

75.2% of Utah’s land is public. Only 24.8% is privately owned. 

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 http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/          

                                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

~~ Bear Essentials ~ Oct. 22, 2017~~

 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  Rob Bishop Seeks to Reform Antiquities Act

n  Are the Days of Sue and Settle Over? EPA overregulation effects

n  Western leaders assert state control over energy permitting in new bill

n  EPA chief issues new directive to end abusive ‘sue and settle’ deals

n  Native American Energy Act Promises to Ease Poverty

n  Wyoming Attorney May be Next BLM Director

n  Western Congressional Caucus Pushes for Antiquities Act Reform

n  Definitely time for Antiquities Act Reform  Op-ed by Matt Anderson

n   Grazing not to blame for bull trout decline  14 yr. Old law suit dismissed

  Bad News Bears         

n  SUWA’s Band of Badgers Confront State Leaders Regarding Public Land

n  When Good Intentions Lead to Bad Results in the Environment

n  Unequal Access to Justice Impedes Fairness and Costs Billions

n  Utah Wildfires Reignites Debate Over Constitutional State Control of Lands    

“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.”

n  Minnesota Enviros Anti-mining Agenda Causes Rift in Labor Party

n  Credibility of Bears Ears “Running” Expert Questioned

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http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

                                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016