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.
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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.]
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“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?”
Other issues related to San Juan County
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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
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