Beyond The Bears Ears: BE Advisory Council

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Monday, June 17, 2019

GRAMA, Governor, Growth, and Global Environmentalists: Bear Essentials 6/17/2019

News in the West

Two New Republican Candidates for Utah Gov. in 2020

~~Greg Hughes Running for Gov.

~~ Jeff Burningham Tosses his Hat in the Ring

~~N. San Juan County Support and Concerns about Love Truck Stop

~~ History of Democrats and the Electoral College

~~It's Time to Defend the Electoral College

~~A Democratic Society or Constitutional Republic?

~~ Parowan Gap: Interpretations of a Unique Petroglyph

Documents for Next Commission Meeting 6/18/19

~~ GRAMA REQUEST APPROVED: DOCUMENTS FROM DEMOCRATIC COMMISSIONERS' ATTORNEY MUST BE PUBLIC

~~ Bears Ears Advisory Council Meets for the First Time

~~Dan Love's Mentor, Wm. Woody Ousted from Dept. of Interior

"Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Office of Law Enforcement Services (OLES) director William Woody seems to have followed a path similar to that of his corrupt protege, Dan Love. Woody has been under investigation for numerous apparent abuses of power and mishandling of government funds since the time he retook the position in 2017. According to our source, on Thursday, June 13, Director Woody’s gun and badge were stripped from him and he was escorted out of the Department of the Interior headquarters in Washington D.C." Free Range Report

~~Lake Powell on the Rise

~~ Growth in Utah Triggers Need for Tax Restructuring

~~ Consumers, Cobalt, Controversies and Compromise by Bill Keshlear

~~ Free Event: Agriculture/Legislative Convocation: Red Acre Center

Location: Monticello College: 1849 North Creek Road, Monticello
Date: Saturday June 22, 2019
Time: 7:00pm Red Acre Center (RAC) advocates for local food economies and for small farmers in Utah. RAC has an impressive track record getting bills passed and building bridges that support food freedom. Online: redacrecenter.org and monticellocollege.org Phone: 435 590 1661

~~ Global Environmentalists Targeting Beef Industry for Destruction

"The American beef industry has long been a tasty target of the environmentalists and their allies in the animal rights movement. To understand the reason is to know that protecting the environment is not the goal, rather the excuse in a determined drive for global power. Their selected tactic is to control the land, water, energy, and population of the Earth. To achieve these ends requires, among other things, the destruction of private property rights and elimination of every individual’s ability to make personal lifestyle choices, including personal diet."

~~ Only 3% of Nation's Energy produced via Sun and Wind, Despite $50 Billion in Subsidies

(How can a Nation $22 Trillion in Debt justify such frivolous spending?)

~~ SL Tribune: Gerhert Opinion Claims Rural Utah Spawns Violence

~~More Decisive Forest Management Needed: Catastrophes Forecast

"The USFS says since 1994, bark beetles have wiped out over four million acres in the southern Rockies. The trees turn red, then brown, then become fuel for catastrophic fires."

~~Oak Foundation, Subsidizes Environmental Agendas

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San Juan Record Photo

Remember San Juan County is Snake Country

Like the Music Man said, "You've got to know the territory."

Sunday, May 12, 2019

Spring Runoff: Water! Words! and Warnings: Bear Essentials May 12, 2019

News in the Nation and the West

Recapture overflows: April 29, 2019 8:14:22 AM by Kelly Jeppesen -- San Juan Record

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Bears Ears Advisory Council Hosting Public Meeting June 5-6

"Written comments to address the BENM-MAC may be sent to the BLM Canyon Country District, 82 East Dogwood, Moab, Utah 84532, or via email with the subject line “BENM-MAC” to blm_ut_mt_mail@blm.gov. Written comments must be received by Friday, May 31, 2019 to be considered by BENM-MAC members in their first meeting." Canyon Echo

Five Years Ago: Recapture Canyon in Retrospect by Rep. Phil Lyman

--Free Range Report--

"Recapture had gone from being a symbol of conflict in the west to being a symbol of corruption in the BLM and the so-called Department of Justice."

"Now, five years after the May 10, 2014 protest in Recapture. The BLM admits, behind closed doors of course, that they do not have a Title V Road in Recapture Canyon. They admit that they had conflated their pipeline right of way for the county road, inappropriately asserting jurisdiction over the county road. They, and the U.S. Attorney’s office admit that those they convicted for trespass and conspiracy did not trespass or conspire. They were forced to drop their claim of damages to archeological sites, when respected archaeologists called their claims of damages not only ludicrous, but spurious and dishonest."

BYU Commencement Speaker Arthur Brooks:

"We don't need to disagree less. We need to disagree better."

Controversy over Non-Native Mt. Goats in La Sal Mts

Social Movement: Eco-Socialism or Death

Shuttles for Tourists Begin in Zions

A Variety of Concerns in Navajo Times: Letters to the Editor

~~ Bears Ears Advisory Council; a brief summary of board members

~~ Signatures for Studying Forms of County Government needed before June.

Those circulating petitions, please get them to to Mayor Lyman's office by June 1. If you haven't signed, go to his office in Cedar Mesa Pottery to sign, or to the Wilcox home, 112 S. 300 W.

~~ Applicants needed for County Administrator, closes May 17

"Serves as County Administrator to the San Juan County Board of Commissioners. Incumbent will perform a broad range of duties including advising the Commission, attending meetings on their behalf, and recommending management strategies. Incumbent will also perform duties as the Risk Manager for the County. Incumbent will also attend Commission meetings and receive work assignments from the Board of Commissioners. Requires an MBA, MPA, or Business / Accounting degree, or similar degree, with five (5) years progressive experience in managing organizations, or a combination of education and experience.

Position Location: San Juan County Administration Building, Monticello. Position closes: May 17. https://sanjuancounty.org/?s=jobs

~~Link for Filing Complaints to the Attorney General's Office

~~ Recording of May 7, 2019 SJC Commission Meeting (First part of meeting is missing because camera wasn't turned on.)

~~ Recording of May 7, 2019 County Commission Work Meeting

~~ County Web site

~~ Public Notices of Meetings (Thus avoiding secret combinations)

~~ Radical Gratitude for Recapture Reservoir By Merry Palmer

Watch: Twisted Arch Video: Recapture Reservoir Spring 2019 👍 Brett Saunders

Recapture Reservoir May 5 by David Homedew

~~ Congressional Western Caucus:

"Update on what Interior is doing with regards to wild horse population management, permitting reform, critical minerals, oil and gas drilling, and mining.

~~ San Juan and Ethics in County Government

Utah codes: Title 17 Chapter 16a County Officers and Employees Disclosure Act, Section 2 - Purposes

17-16a-2. Purposes.
The purposes of this chapter are to establish standards of conduct for county officers and employees and to require these persons to disclose conflicts of interest between their public duties and their personal interests.

and also Section 11

17-16a-11. County ethics commission -- Complaints charging violations -- Procedure.
(1) A county may establish by ordinance an ethics commission to review a complaint, except as provided in Subsection (3), against an officer or employee subject to this part for a violation of a provision of this part.
(2)
(a) Except as provided in Subsection (3), a person filing a complaint for a violation of this part shall file the complaint:
(i) with the county ethics commission, if the county has established a county ethics commission in accordance with Subsection (1); or
(ii) with the Political Subdivisions Ethics Review Commission established in accordance with Title 63A, Chapter 15, Political Subdivisions Ethics Review Commission if the county has not established a county ethics commission.
(b) A county that receives a complaint described in Subsection (2)(a) may:
(i) accept the complaint if the county has established a county ethics commission in accordance with Subsection (1); or
(ii) forward the complaint to the Political Subdivisions Ethics Review Commission established in Section 63A-15-201:
(A) regardless of whether the county has established a county ethics commission; or
(B) if the county has not established a county ethics commission.
(3) Any complaint against a person who is under the merit system, charging that person with a violation of this part, shall be filed and processed in accordance with the provisions of the merit system.

For More information regarding legal issues

~~ Tribal Sovereignty Does not Generate Successful Businesses

“We’ve been in a socialist system for the past 100 years,” Begay charged. “We don’t even understand what it means to have a private sector. It does not mean establishing
enterprises owned by the tribe and run by the tribe to compete with small businesses
owned by individual Navajos.”

~~Fed. Gov. Lied about Who Owned Recapture Canyon The Petroglyph

~~ Interim County Administrator Hired in Defiance of Ut. Open Meeting Laws San Juan Record

~~ Utah's Open Meeting Law Violated by New Commissioners Deseret News

"During the work meeting, Adams said the job opening should have been filled in-house, or if there were no suitable candidates, advertised outside."
"I wonder what the negotiation process was, and why I wasn't included," Adams said, referencing a meeting Everitt had with Grayeyes and Maryboy to discuss working for San Juan County.: Des. News

~~ A Reminder of what Tourist Towns do to Housing Market

~~ Extreme Environmentalists Continue Attack on Oregon Multiple Use Lands

"In the most recent lawsuit, the U.S. Forest Service is accused of unlawfully approving a 10-year grazing permit for the allotment despite “irreparable harm” to the threatened Oregon spotted frog and wetland plants and mollusks."