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Friday, November 3, 2017

~~ Bear Essentials ~ Nov. 3, 2017 ~~


Green Groups Oppose Trump’s Utah Visit: Time to Speak Up
Facts included in the letter: “Radical environmental groups have shown disrespect to Local Native American residents by narrating a false scenario, using identity politics and questions of “Native American” sovereignty in terms of the Monument designation. Native Americans closest to the Bears Ears have told us time and time again that “sacredness should not be synonymous to national monuments.”
We understand much of the sacred sites and cultural heritage areas of Native American origin are already thoroughly protected to include:
*Grand Gulch Wilderness Area - 105,213 acres
*Dark Canyon Wilderness Area - 57,248 acres
*Road Canyon Wilderness Area - 52,420 acres
*Mancos Mesa Wilderness Area – 50,899 acres
*Fish Creek Canyon Wilderness Area - 40,160 acres
*Cedar Mesa Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) - 30,752 acres
*Butler Wash Wilderness Area - 24,277 acres
*Cheesebox Canyon Wilderness Area - 14,831 acres
*The Indian Creek Wilderness Area - 6,870 acres
*Mule Canyon Wilderness Area- 5,990 acres
*Bridger Jack Mesa Wilderness Area - 5,290 acres
*Natural Bridges National Monument - 7,780 acres
All within the unnecessary boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument, over 90% of the area included in the list were designated through a democratic congressional legislative process.
We are certain that under these existing federally protected areas, sites of significant historic and cultural concern will remain in the capable hands of the federal agencies charged with protecting these places of wonder. How are we certain?
The current powerful laws already in existence to protect these places are:
*1935 Historic Sites
*1960/1974 Reservoir Act
*1966 National History Preservation Act
1980 Amendment NHBA - Exec. Order Protection & Enhancement of Cultural Environment
*1974 Archeological & Historic Preservation Act
*1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act
*1979 Archeological Resources Act (Heavily Enforced)
*1990 Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act (Heavily Enforced)
*1996 Indian Sacred Site
*2000 CONSULTATION & Coordination with Indian Tribal Government
*2003 Preserve America Act
Bears Ears National Monument has proven to be an unneeded layer of federal bureaucracy which our great Nation simply never needed. The Antiquities Act demonstrates the abuse of federal power as well as being obsolete in its current form.”
We welcome a visit by the 45th President of the United States to the State of Utah.
Write to Secretary Zinke: Dept. of the Interior  1849 C Street, N.W.  Wash. DC 20240 

Good News Bears

n  Pruitt (EPA Head) Plans Overhaul of Advisory Boards Whatever science comes out of EPA shouldn’t be political science,” said Pruitt, a Republican lawyer who previously served as the attorney general of Oklahoma. “He suggested many previously appointed to the panels were potentially biased because they had received federal research grants.”


Throughout Ms. Budd-Falen’s career, the foundational principles that appear to have consistently guided her work are: That the freedoms we are entitled to in this country are the product of rights bestowed upon us, not by man, but by God; That our Constitution was written for the purpose of limiting our government’s ability, if not proclivity, to erode those rights; and That, unless those freedoms are vigorously defended, they will be vanquished in the course of time.”  [Ms. Falen was also one of the presenters at the Kansas conference that 10 SJC residents attended this past summer.]


Bad News Bears         

“The prosecution seems to think that the Inspector General’s Office is not accurate in their reporting, and its documents cannot be trusted. The report is accurate enough to fire Dan Love from the Bureau of Land Management. It is accurate enough for our elected officials. It is accurate enough for Washington DC bureaucrats. Yet it is not accurate to the Federal prosecutors?”

n  EPA bans wood burning, and wood burning stoves  Old news, but may be new to you.

            Other issues related to San Juan County
n  Possible Incorporation of Bluff Discussed  KSJD radio interview
n  Utah Navajo Health   KSJD interview with Michael Jensen, concerning Utah Navajo Health Services

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                                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016