Angst in August Generates Involvement; Bear Essentials 8/17/2019

Be sure to come: Listen, Ask, Learn

~~ Agenda for Aug. 20 SJC Commission meeting in Bluff: 9 AM & 11 AM 

Bluff Community Center(3rd and Mulberry)

9: 00 AM 

1. Discuss potential changes to interlocal agreement between Bluff & San Juan County - David Everitt, SJC Interim Administrator
2. Discussion about a future trash drop box site in Bluff - Randy Rarick, SJC  Landfill Manager
3. Briefing on the countywide special election taking place this November - John David Nielson, SJC Clerk
4. Discussion of other issues in the Bluff area - David Everitt, SJC Interim Administrator
5. Public lands updates - Nick Sandberg, SJC Planning

11:00 A.M. Commission Meeting

1. Approval of minutes - August 6, 2019
2. Citizens' comments to the commission* (Please complete the request form - available at the door)
3. Consideration of the referability of an application for a ballot initiative submitted by San Juan County residents - John David Nielson, SJC Clerk
4. Approve new hires - Walter Bird, SJC HR Director
5. Discussion & possible approval of a sole source procurement for engineering services for cell closure for the County Landfill - Randy Rarick, SJC Landfill Manager
6. Discussion and possible approval for the Chair to sign a letter to the Bureau of Land Management with comments on the Canyon Rims Area Travel Management Plan - Nick Sandberg, SJC Planning
7. Discussion and possible approval of the Chair to sign a letter to the U.S. Forest Service regarding proposed rule changes - Nick Sandberg, SJC Planning
8. Discussion and possible approval of a resolution urging caution regarding oil and gas leasing on Bureau of Land Management lands near Hovenweep National Monument - David Everitt, SJC Interim Administrator
9. Discussion and possible approval of a resolution authorizing the Chair to enter into an employment agreement on behalf of San Juan County with the future San Juan County Administrator - David Everitt, SJC Interim Administrator

~~ SUWA's Frivolous Law Suit, Followed by Appeal to Ut. Supreme Court

~~ Utahans Say They Want the SL Tribune to Survive but Only 25% Read It 

~~ Looking for Common Ground With No Common Compass

~~ Fire Warnings in Colorado and SE Utah: Don't Burn Anything

~~ (Note to SL Tribune: Stop Bullying

~~SECRETARY BERNHARDT TRANSFORMS INTERIOR’S ETHICS PROGRAM 

~~ Accomplishments: Bernhardt's first 100 Days as Sec. Of Interior -- Video

~~ Canyon Zephyr Digs out Recapture Protest info: Spring 2014 Parts 1, 2, 3

~~ Secretary of Agriculture Announces: Changes to Heavy Handed Sage Grouse Controls  Aug. 1, 2019

    "Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul Gosar (AZ-04): "The Obama administration imposed one of the largest land grabs in American history under the guise of protecting the Greater sage-grouse, a species that isn’t even threatened or endangered. Their real motivation was to lockup as much land as possible, preventing multiple-use activities like oil and gas production, mining, and grazing in the process. The Greater sage-grouse was simply the means to their end as the bird’s habitat comprises 173 million acres in 11 Western States. Secretary Perdue’s announcement is welcome news as it is the third and final piece of the puzzle in terms of reining in the sage-grouse overreach of the previous administration. I applaud President Trump and his administration for treating Western states as partners instead of forcing their political agenda down our throats like the Obama administration."  

~~ Unrest with Adakai Leadership 

~~ Follow: San Juan's Monumental Divide - By Bill Keshlear

~~ Tourism Only Part of a Diverse Economy: Letter to the editor by Bill Haven

~~ Legal Fees Continue to Mount in Litigious Environment 

"The roosters at the Tribune would like to take credit for the sun coming up in the morning – 18 months after the sunrise!" They finally run a related story. The San Juan Record has been consistent in reporting the cost of defending freedoms in San Juan County. 1) From February, 2018 2)From January, 3) 2019 Read full story

~~ Free Range Report: SJC Commissioners, Face $500 A day Fine For Stonewalling GRAMA Request

~~ Nothing Obama Declared Was About Co-Management

~~Democrats’ Plan To Nationalize Land, Using Land and Water Conservation Fund

~~ Tourism Over-runs Antelope Canyon/ Page Arizona

~~ Navajo Nation Council in Gridlock over Renewable Resources

~~ Hurricane City Council Discusses the Lake Powell Pipeline Project

~~Trail of Tears Damage by Forest Service in Coker Creek still not fixed

~~ Black Market in Siberian Dinosaur Skulls?

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~~ Bear Essentials ~ Sept 2, 2017~~

Shared Sacrifice for Water Users of the West: Colorado River

“I think it [Taking down Glen Canyon Dam] is scientifically dubious, legally implausible and politically suicidal,” says Mr. Entsminger in Nevada.

San Juan County Information:

n  Facebook Freedom Fest Information

n  Order your 2017 Freedom Fest Shirts today

n  Featured Freedom Fest Performer Tim Gates  San Juan Record

                         

Good News Bears

n  The Monumental battle over Monuments in the West  Deseret News

n  Trump has historic opportunity to check trend of expansive monuments

n  EPA Secretary Pruitt Demands Science over Environmental Activism

n  Southern Utah should not be Dictated to nor Dependent on Coastal Elites

n  Pacific Legal Foundation Applauds Adminstration’s Monument Review

n  Love’s “Investigation” made public; Congressman Bishop calls for investigation of unethical practices (“Love giving Moqui Marbles out like candy”)

n   Green Peace facing Lawsuits for Illegalities in Canada

n  Why the US Forest Service need Reforms

n  Zinke Suggests Shrinking 3 Monuments

n  Recommendations and National Monuments in Review

Bad News Bears

n  Synopsis of Dan Love’s Criminal Activities

n  If you watch TV or go on-line, you’ve run into lots of propaganda via expensive ads regarding Bears Ears.  They may show a paid child actor, or a rich businessmen, claiming San Juan county and the State of Utah are public land haters. Reminds me of something I recently read: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20

n  George Soros Floods Penn. DA Race with $1,700,000

n  Surprise recommendation from Zinke, concerning tribal co-management

n  Feds Determined to Crush Western Dissent, using Bundy’s as Target

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Performing Sept 9: Tim Gates and Freedom Fest 2017 Concert
Tim’s Facebook page
Listen to his Music:

Schedule for Saturday, Sept. 9

1)   Vendors and Concessions open 4 PM SJHS Football Field

Come Eat, Greet, and Meet 

$10 each (under 5 yrs  free)

2)   Donations $10 for 5 tickets (See Prizes)

13 donated prizes will be on display and tickets available with a donation

3)   Entertainment begins  at 6 PM with:

Magnetic Pull  

And   The Grayson Girls

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                                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

Bear Essentials-- March 14, 2017

 Bear Essentials* March 14, 2017

*(Lyle Bayles’s encounter with a naked hiker recently,

 gives a whole new perspective regarding “Bear Essentials!”

Please email letters , snail mail, or call Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke.  (Department of the Interior     1849 C Street, N.    Washington DC 20240 )           Phone: (202) 208-3100

n  Call Governor Herbert 801-538-1000.  Let’s support Garfield County in having Grand Staircase Escalante reduced in size, as well as Bears Ears rescinded.

n  A SJC TV advertising effort started this week. We don’t have rich foundations donating to us!  Just folks like you! Help if you can.  Here are some ways: 

n  Republican Lincoln Day Dinner March 30, with Mike Noel Keynote speaker.  Call Cody Nielson for reservations 435-979-3027.

n  Monday Night Comic Relief –  7 PM  April 3

Arts and Events Center USU Campus, Blanding

After eight months of intense pro-active involvement working to protect ourr beloved land, we all need some Comic Relief. Stewards of San Juan has organized an April Fools evening of humor and fun.  There will be skits, poetry, satire, parody, and music – all designed to combat discouragement, while helping to raise some money for No-Monument advertising.   Please invite your like-minded friends and family to attend this event.  Donations accepted, and a Cake Auction and pot luck dessert bar will be held at the end.  Please come.

n  Email the new State BLM Director, and politely tell him your concerns.  His name is Ed Robertson, and Gary Torres is currently the Acting Associate State Director. Or you can write or call: 440 West 200 South, Ste. 500
Salt Lake City, UT 84101     Phone: 801-539-4001 (I actually received a “registered” letter back from Mr. Torres this past week, which was polite and positive.)

n  The Truth about Co-Management and Promises that can’t be kept.

  

·       County Delegation headed to Dodge City March 28-30.  There may be room for 1 or 2 more.  Call immediately 435-459-1970 if you want to go and will use tools learned to help SJC in this ongoing battle.

·       Meet Ryan Zinke now managing 1/5 of the nations lands 

Quote from New York Times: “The position puts Mr. Zinke in control of 500 million acres of United States land — roughly a fifth of the nation — and charged with balancing the department’s contradictory duties of conserving land and mining it for resources at a time of intense pressure from energy producers, environmental activists, state lawmakers and his own boss, who made fossil fuel jobs a crucial part of his campaign platform.

Westerners angered by land restrictions are hoping that Mr. Zinke will help them peel back Washington’s grip on public acres. For miners, ranchers and politicians in resource-rich regions, the Obama years were a rough ride. President Barack Obama blocked new coal leases, imposed moratoriums on uranium drilling near the Grand Canyon and set aside 553 million acres for national monuments, more than any other president.

·        Tangled Web of Environmental funding Going to NGOs  (graphic by Devin Bayles Hancock)

·       The World Wide Web of Multi-Level Marketing (or Lobbying 101)  Part II

  Good News Bears

Enjoy this wonderful reflective article by SJHS grad, Nathan Nielson

It’s time to Drain the Swamp on Public Lands.  – Range allotments affected

Utah challenges road plan devised by BLM and extreme Greens

Maine and Utah work to Rescind Monument Designation    

                  

President Trump’s First 50 days…What was done

Bad News Bears

--Five states impacted by Endangered Species act—i.e. excessive  restrictions and litigations   …the current use of the ESA is incredibly expensive to American tax payers and our economy. As of December 2014, the average listing cost $789,966 per species. This federal funding is siphoned directly from tax payer’s wallets.

--Southwest Archaeological groups ask Sec. Of Interior Zinke to protect Bears Ears Monument

--Patagonia and the Politics of Subsidized Public Land and Recreation

If you don’t already follow Free Range Report.  I encourage you to do so.  http://freerangereport.com/  Commissioner Phil Lyman and several others of us have had articles published there.  It comes out of Grand Junction, and Majorie Haun the editor is always on top of trending events, not only in the west, but in any State dealing with land management issues.  She has a great search engine, so you can find anything related to Bears Ears.  She has given us awesome coverage, and deserves a donation.    

Thank you for all you are doing to encourage the President and Congress to rescind BE Nat’l Monument.  Stay involved on the county level; no matter what happens, land management will continue to be an issue of high concern for some time.   

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”      Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Beyond Standing Rock. KUED Channel 7, showing again

               Wed. April 12, noon   and Sunday April 30, 3 PM 

               Bear Hugs,    Janet  (http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/)

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