Bear Essentials* APRIL 1, 2017

 n  Plan to Come Monday Night April 3-- Bears Ears Comic Relief –  Donations Appreciated—Arts and Events Center

An evening of humor and fun providing “Comic Relief” will feature Grand Old Broads in Recovery, Lilly Tomblin at the Bears Ears Information Booth; and the infamous Bears Ears Boys 7 PM  April 3. Musical parodies, cowboy poetry, and skits are on tap along with Leonie and Allen Hunt, with a musical tribute to SJC. Please invite your like-minded friends and family to come enjoy this event. Jim Keyes will run the Cake Auction followed by the raffle drawing and pot luck dessert bar at the end. (Please bring something to share if you can). Come and enjoy!   Raffle tickets for a Glock 9 MM pistol will be sold for $5 each or 5 for $20. Donations and ticket sales will be used for No-Monument advertising.  

Event recommended for those 10 and up.

n  Petroglyph Video of Representative Mike Noel speaking at San Juan County’s Republican Dinner March 30.  (Thanks, Monte Wells.)  After the event, Mike drove back to Kanab, arriving about 3:30 AM.  What a road warrior he is!  Want to thank him or communicate? (mnoel@kanab.net)  Thank you, Cody Nielson, Sterling Black, Vint Degraw, the organizers of the Rep. dinner, for inviting him to come Thursday.

n  Sutherland's Institute, in conjunction with Stewards of San Juan has created a new Website and Facebook page to help keep track of the Bears Ears National Monument.   Please Like their/our page  https://www.facebook.com/RescindBearsEars/ and visit RescindBearsEars.com for more information.

n  Sign Petition to Rescind Bears Ears  and get your family/ friends to do likewise.

n  Continue to write or call Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke. He is getting LOTS of pressure from the Green Urbanites as is President Trump.  Please stay engaged with your encouraging words of support and ideas.

Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke: 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington DC 20240
Phone: (202) 208-3100
Email: Email Dept. of the Interior

n  Interested in Old Blanding City Council minutes?   These go back to 1916! 

 Good News Bears

·       American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank at California Berkley, says Trump has the power to Revoke  Bears Ears.

·       Will Trump Relocate Federal Land agencies from DC to the West?

“[Zinke's] view is that we have too many people working in Interior in Washington, D.C., when the work that needs to be done is out in the states and particularly in the West, and he wants to move a lot of the management decisions and a lot of the people from Washington out to the states...”   Yay for Zinke!!

·       Showdown on Government over-reach addressed at Dodge City, Kansas convention.  “A coalition of Navajos and local leaders opposed to the designation of Utah’s Bears Ears region as a national monument traveled from Southern Utah to attend the conference.”  Those participating included Commissioner Bruce Adams, Val Dalton, Wendy Black, Lewis & Donna Singer, Marie Holiday, Wallace and Anna Tom and Betty Jones.  We hope they will have an opportunity for sharing information in the near future.

       One concern we have often seen is stated in the article: “In recent history, federal agencies have conferred upon themselves — through the administrative rule-making process — expansive powers and authorities not present in original statutory law. Through the cumbersome, complex and ineffective public comment/rule-making process, federal agencies create for themselves rules, regulations and policies, imposing them on the public as binding and having the weight of law.

·        BLM 2.0 repealed by Trump.  Governor Herbert and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski were present at the signing March 27.  Herbert said, ‘"We want to optimize the management, the outcome, the results of our public lands and multiple use.  Utah and other rural states were critical of the 2.0 plan saying it added another layer that does not provide a better outcome and actually diminishes the role of the state and local governments. Undoing the regulation ensures that "western stakeholders will no longer be relegated to the sidelines, and once again be able to ensure that decisions are being made locally — not thousands of miles away at BLM headquarters," Murkowski said. (She was one of the sponsors of the bill—Write and thank her)

·      New Zealand reinvents farming when old regulations are thrown out.

·       Wendell Berry quote via Jim Stiles: ”While most environmentalists object to the  impacts from the extraction of natural resources, they rarely connect the dots to the gasoline they keep pumping into their SUVs. They loathe the damage caused by the production of resources but have no trouble consuming them.”

 

Bad News Bears

·       See how Congressman Chris Steward was treated at the Town Hall meeting Friday, 3/31 .  You’ll hear and see the nature of the beast we are battling.

·       KUTV Report on Steward’s Town Hall

·      Dependence upon foreign countries for minerals is troubling.  United States is now import-dependent for 50 different metals and minerals – and 100 percent import-dependent for 20.  Why then are we locking up land with natural resources?

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Coming in April: Beyond Standing Rock. KUED Channel 7

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

Bear Essentials* March 24, 2017

n  Republican Lincoln Day Dinner Thursday March 30, in Monticello at the Hideout Community Center, 6 PM.  Representative Mike Noel will be the keynote speaker. He is such a strong ally in the land battle we are engaged in.  If you haven’t heard him speak, you need to come, listen and learn.  Call Cody Nielson for reservations 435-979-3027. They are also helping Stewards of San Juan with a raffle that night, so  plan to buy tickets which will help us with advertising costs.

n  Monday Night -- Bears Ears Comic Relief –  7 PM  April 3

Arts and Events Center -- USU Campus, Blanding

Stewards of San Juan has organized an evening of humor and fun for some well-deserved “Comic Relief” on April 3.  Lilly Tomblin Look-Alike will be manning the Bears Ears Information Booth; The Bears Ears Boys will join in with some humorous musical insights, while Oliver Harris and Buddy Redd will share western poetry. Random spoofs and skits will round out the evening. Leonie and Allen Hunt will close with a musical tribute to SJC. Donations will be used for No-Monument advertising.   Please invite your like-minded friends and family to come enjoy this event. There will also be Cake Auction and pot luck dessert bar held at the end. Come and enjoy!

n  Featured Op-ed from Bob Dalton, published last week in San Juan Record.

n  What to expect when tourists come. A photo essay.  Be sure to read the comments and post your own.

n  Emery County faces similar problems to San Juan, with only 8% private land.

n  Moab & Escalante will be featured next on KSL’s Road to Understanding (today)

Please: Write or call Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke  He is getting LOTS of pressure from the Green Urbanites as is  President Trump.  Please stay engaged.

1849 C Street, N.W.    Washington DC 20240
Phone: (202) 208-3100
Email: Email Dept. of the Interior

Good News Bears

·       SJC ad campaign takes aim at rescinding Bears Ears NM Read article  Thank you for your donations in making this happen.

·       A great Town Hall Meeting was held in Fillmore Monday. Please listen if you haven’t already.  It was encouraging that so many other counties voiced the same concerns we have. Stewards of San Juan were represented and all had a chance to speak.  Thanks ladies for traveling over and representing SJC. 1 hour video of meeting  KSL is on the road for 2 weeks visiting towns throughout Utah. March 23 they were in Blanding.  Watch the news as it will show up soon.

·       Updated web site for Bears Ears Information. Please sign the petition reminding President Trump of SJC.  http://rescindbearsears.org/

·       What Washington DC is reading about Bears Ears.  

·       San Juan County, leads of nation in growth?  Not what it appears

·       Story related to county growth, was based on estimates, not facts

·       EPA has turned from protector to aggressor

Bad News Bears

Native Tribes set to do battle over Bears Ears.  Sandy Johnson, and Mary Jane Yazzie interviewed in this story.

ATV Trail Plans derailed by Environmental group Deseret News A proposal to put in a 6.4 mile all-terrain vehicle loop in the Indian Creek region at the Bears Ears Monument was derailed by the new designation after environmental groups won a stay delaying any of the work to begin this spring.

Wild Fires devastate Kansas rangelands and herds

Those concerned about the devastating wildfires can visit www.ClarkCountyProud.com to see what the needs are and where to donate. 

The Kansas Livestock Association is accepting donations of feed, fencing supplies and cash for all ranchers who’ve lost fencing, forage resources, harvested feed and an undetermined number of cattle in the blazes across Kansas. To donate, visit  www.kla.org/donationform.aspx

Trimble banking on Zinke to keep Bears Ears National Monument.  SL Tribune

Federal Withdrawal of resource rich lands also impacts Minnesota  “If enacted, the withdrawal proposal would cause the state to lose thousands of potential jobs from future mining projects, billions of dollars in future investment in Northeastern Minnesota, and billions of dollars of potential revenue to support the state’s K-12 education system. . . .

The proposed withdrawal is not based on science or any specific project. It will not make a project better, and it will not improve the environment. The unproven concerns raised by Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service are based only on hypothetical and unfounded fears of generalized impacts from mining.”

Michigan property seized by Forest Service following resurveying of land.

Coming in April: Beyond Standing Rock. KUED Channel 7

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

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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