Advisory Council, Electoral College, Tell Your Story ~~ June 1, 2019

Reservoirs Fill After Winter Snows

Remember all the years the City Council in Blanding was dogged in their resolve to drill deep wells, build reservoirs, put in pipes for better water distribution, fund additional engineering projects to protect this this valuable resource!?  

Well, it was a priority, and after the drought of last year, we understand even more why local governments are key in making decisions that benefit all its citizens.

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# Bears Ears Nat'l Monument Advisory Meeting June 5-6

Plan to attend

#Utah's Public Radio Story Telling Project.  Here's how to be involved:

           Follow the link and fill out survey.  UPR will be in San Juan County June 19-21

They hope to involve many local people in short interview sessions

#This Week's SJ Record: News in a Nutshell Bill Boyle

#Last Week's News: Editor Bill Boyle, SJ Record

#Electoral College Opponents Attempt to Have It Both Ways

#Videos Show LaVoy Finicum Death was Planned Assassination 

"Evidence proves that LaVoy was murdered in cold blood. Had authorities responded to Greg Bretzing and Dan Love in 2009, this chain of events may have been much different. Instead we stand and watch as our friends and neighbors are raided, falsely accused and prosecuted, and subjected to the lies and derision of hateful colluding special interest groups. Can LaVoy’s death be anything but wrongful? Instead of covering the truth, the media has done nothing but denigrate the honest people, while protecting the snakes who are orchestrating these actions."  Rep. Phil Lyman

#Montezuma County: A Sanctuary County For the Right to Bear Arms?

#Bears Ears Referendum: Should Decision be made by Voters?

 #SJ County Wrestles with Litigation, Referendum Requests Four Corners Free Press:

#Are we Misreading and Misleading Millennials

#Laws-Grayeyes Appeal Still Pending: Earlier Events and Comments

~~ Blanding City Reaps the Benefits of Dry Wash Reservoir Pipeline

~~ 101 Things to Do in San Juan County

~~ US Minerals: Don't Undermine Them      Free Range Report   

" The one economic sector that meets the American appetite for raw materials, gadgets, high-tech equipment, cars, jetliners and "renewable" energy technologies that we take for granted -- all of which are made from minerals and metals -- mining!.

~~Senator Romney Introduces Legislation to Settle Water Rights for Navajos

~~Mill Protesters Chose Not to Research Facts

"If anyone wants to see the data for sampling that happens at and around the mill [Energy Fuels] go to the link below. Everything that is sampled is public information and can be found on this site including the mill license and requirements to operate. The samples that are analyzed in these reports are all done offsite at independent labs. The sample results show the tailings ponds are not leaking. Also, white mesa gets their drinking water from the Navajo aquifer and there is an impermeable layer of clay between the Dakota aquifer and the Navajo aquifer. 

So even if there were a leak it cannot get into the Navajo aquifer that is used for drinking. 

There are over 100 wells that get sampled, air monitoring stations, soil sampling, vegetation sampling, seeps and springs sampling, stack sampling, radon sampling, and surface water sampling done all around the mill. These samples all show the mill is not contaminating anything in the area. The results are all provided in the link. There is a lot more information I could post on here but it would take all day. Hope that helps.    G. Palmer  

https://deq.utah.gov/.../ener.../white-mesa-uranium-mill.htm

~~ Gov. Docs reveal who donated To SJC Democratic Campaign

 . . ."interesting financial information can be found by reviewing the financial disclosures statements of the San Juan County Democratic Party and both the Maryboy and Grayeyes' Campaigns. All 3 show sharp increases in money beginning in July 2018 and running through the election. We learn two things from this. First, very few San Juan County residents contributed to their campaigns. Two, San Juan County can be bought for about $60,000 - the cost of the two Commissioner races." 

"When you look into the disclosure statements of the non-profit groups that donated to the San Juan County Democratic Party and the Maryboy Campaign you'll also find very interesting results. The chair of one of those non-profits is the former Political Director for the Utah Democratic Party and the current CEO/Chair of the Rural Utah Project. The Rural Utah Project is the one that registered all those new voters last year in San Juan County." 

~~ Will Trump Administration Revive Domestic Uranium Market?

#Up to Date News from the BLM

~~Nat'l Parks More Affected by Climate Change than other Areas

                     (Hmmm, Did they factor in Industrial Strength Tourism?)

~~Toxic Flowers Suspected in Cattle Deaths

~~ SJ County Commission Declines Referendum Application May 21 

~~ Mix of Anglos and White Mesa residents March to Uranium Mill in Protest

~~ Vandalism on Shinob Kibe in Washington, Utah

~~ and the irony ....Tourism Boosts the Economy. . .but is the price worth it?

~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: July 20, 2018~~

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v San Juan Record Live: Focus on Pioneer days This weekend

v Pioneer Day Events/ Schedule

v Southern County Gully Washer July 13

v Follow San Juan Weather Guy for More San Juan Weather Activity

v SJC Favorite Phil Lyman Runs for State House of Representatives

v Help Phil Fight the Big Environmental Donors Trying to Defeat Him

v Attention Ranchers with Grazing Allotments:

Ranchers who maintain grazing allotments in the footprint of the previous Bears Ears National Monument or the new monuments, need to know about Rangeland Strategies. As the BLM and USFS update their management plans for these areas, we believe our consultants can help make sure that the interests of those with grazing allotments are protected.  (Benjamin Burr)  More information

v How do you Regulate Respectful Recreation? Outside Magazine

             State Senator David Hinkins. a Great Defender of San Juan County

n  Mike Lee Supports Bill to Protect Rural Utah from Abuses of Antiquities Act

n  Judge Blocks Reopening of Election Lawsuit

n  More Cattle on Rangeland Helps Mitigate Wildfires

n  President Trump Grants Clemency to the Hammonds

n  Hammonds Unjustly Imprisoned as Terrorists

n  Putting The Supreme Court’s Role into Perspective

n  Firing a Bad Federal Employee May Get a Little Easier

n  Senator Mike Lee on Tariffs, Congressional Disfunction, and New Supreme Court Judge

n  Updates from Sutherland Institute

n  “The Sentence” Screens at Capitol; Sen. Lee Comments

n  Diamond Rio Coming to San Juan County

n  Diamond Rio will headline the San Juan County Fair with a performance on Thursday, August 9 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the San Juan County Fairgrounds.

Advance tickets are $18 and can be purchased at BCL Distributing in Blanding (1261 South Main) or the San Juan Record in Monticello (49 South Main).

n  Most Recent Plans for New Bluff Elementary School SJ Record

 n  Charges Against Chilcoat Dropped!  Collusion in AG’s office?

--Did the State AG’s Office side with the defendants?

--Why did the AG’s Office bring unfounded charges against the lead deputy in the Chilcoat case just prior to the preliminary hearing?

--Why is it that the AG’s Office refused to assist the San Juan County Prosecutor due to a “conflict of interest,” and then agree to participate in the appeals hearing where all charges are dropped against Chilcoat, who is the client of an AG’s Office employee?  --Monte Wells

n  Lightening Strike Threatens Homes in Bluff

n  Fire in North Cottonwood Also Caused by Lightening

n  Fracking Can Make You Fat!!

n  LA Times: Bears Ears Awaits Ruling

n  Woman Treed by Wolves; Rescue Delayed

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n Read Past Editions of Bear Essentials at: http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

Documenting Bears Ears Controversy and Public Land Issues since July 2016

~~ Bear Essentials ~ June 4, 2017 ~~

“If only a small percentage of the dollars needed to create the Bears Ears Allotment were added to the local budgets for the local offices of the BLM and USFS that would provide adequate  ”boots” on the ground to protect the public lands encompassed within the boundaries of these agencies. . . The monument area is literally a magnificent garden, there is a saying that if you don’t continue to weed your garden then you soon find you have lost your garden. Please leave the area under a multiple use strategy so that the BLM and USFS, Term Grazing Permit holders, and others will still have the tools and management practices to maintain these natural resources. We again ask that you rescind this monument.”   Jimmie and Carol Forrest Monticello

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Other Issues Affecting Bears Ears

n  Antiquities Review:  Top Five Reasons We Were Outnumbered

n  Pay attention to Utah Political Climate.  Who will replace Jason Chaffetz?

n  Biased Surveys Predetermine Outcome   by Devin B. Hancock  Results

n  Smoking them Out: Theft of the Environment and how to Take it back by Greg Walcher

Zinke Appauds Trump's Withdrawal from “America Last” Paris Climate Pact.

. . ."America's energy and economic destiny should be up to the United States, not the United Nations. Today the President took bold and decisive action to pull the U.S. out of the poorly-negotiated Paris Accord that would kill American jobs and manufacturing while doing little to protect the environment.  

"We all agree that clean air and clean water are top priorities, but this deal was an example of another give-away to foreign interests and locks America into a permanent competitive disadvantage. America has the resources and expertise to lead the world in responsible energy development and technology. To not use our resources to our advantage is simply wrong. The world is safer when America is strong.” Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke

n  Why liberals aren’t as tolerant as they think

                                                                                         

                                                              

Good News Bears

n  Former Forest Service Employee Warns of Monument Dangers

n  10 Circuit Court says BLM Must Redo OHV Routes on 6 Million acres

n  New Ag. Secretary Promises Balance in Forest Service Management

n  Are American Hunters the Last Great Hope for Conservation? Zooms in on Secretary Zinke.

n  Water battle pits City of Aspen against feds, enviros.” By Greg Walcher

n  Forestry 101: Log it, thin it, or watch it burn Idaho Statesman

n  Idaho BLM tries Balanced Approach to Grazing has Enviros shaking

n  Remembering the Blanding Rally  Not sure if I ever linked Marjorie’s recap

n  Great photos in this article: Paddle and Pedal the Bears Ears Monument

                                                                                           

  

Bad News Bears

n  Maffly claims Facts on Monument Acreages are Misleading

n  Entanglements between DOI agencies and Agenda driven Enviromentalists deepen the swamp  Part I Marjorie Haun

n  Back Country CEO Defends Bears Ears NM

n  Torrey, Utah asks for State Help on Water but doesn’t support drilling. Great quotes from Mike Noel in this article. 

n  SUP Magazine Supports Bears Ears NM

n  New Mexico AG’s Office Takes on unfair Cattle Industry Harming Family Ranches

n  Science Magazine worried about Dinosaurs in NM

n  Environmentalist Messaging Concerning BLM Flaring Rule is Mythology

n  Environmental Bias in Oregon has Ranchers Wary

n  10 Planks of American Socialism  Watching it happen in our life time.

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http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

Documenting Bears Ears No Monument efforts since July 2016