Administrator for County on Agenda 5/7/2019 -- Controversy Continues

Concerns in the News

Citizenship in the U.S.: Why should it be Controversial for the Census?  

What the Left Gets Wrong About Racial Disparities

Bumper to Bumper in Moab  How many tourists are needed?

Moab City Manager Retires: Applies for Temp Job in SJC

Resignation of Kelly Pehrson: SJC Democratic Party Sets the Record Straight

 Spring Run-off at Cottonwood.  Photo by Jay Jones

~~ Spring Run Off in all Its Glory

~~Elizabeth Warren and Environmental Justice -- Bill Keshlear

~~Pod Cast with Ryan Benally, Member of Advisory Council for Bears Ears

~~ Shannon Brooks Responds to SL Tribune Adaki Letter

~~Political Donnybrook Continues to Plague San Juan County

~~2 Commissioners Try to Steam Roll Moab Leftist as County Administrator

~~County Administrator Resigns and Takes New Post

~~ Unelected Attorney from Durango, Appears to be Running County Commission

~~First Soros High Jacks Public Lands in the West, now the U.S. Census

~~ Even Capitol Press believes AP Spin on Bears Ears Advisory Council

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~~ 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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Follow Stewards of San Juan

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http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

Documenting Bears Ears No Monument efforts since July 2016

Letters to Donors to Conservation Lands Foundation

To Whom It May Concern,

     I am concerned about the exorbitant financial efforts environmental groups like your foundation, are putting into securing more and more land in the USA under the guise of environmental protection and I have to question your real motives.  Since you are one of those “generous” donors to The Conservation Lands Foundation, I wonder why you feel this urgency to designate more monuments and parks, when you know full well our country is nearly bankrupt and can’t afford to take care of the parks and monuments it already has?  

Why do you now pick on Utah’s Native people, and rural residents, as you seek 1.9 Million acres to be locked up as part of a Bears Ears monument?  San Juan County is the poorest county in the State of Utah. 53% of our school children are Native American. We need jobs and resources, not more controls and social programs. If you cared about our country, its existing parks and monuments, and its citizens, you would be making donations to specific parks and local schools.  This would show true concern for the land.  The Bears Ears area in question, is already “public” land.  Everyone is welcome to come visit, hike, hunt, ponder, and enjoy.  However, the BLM is understaffed.  Maybe that is where some of your money could go.

     Here is why most San Juan citizens don’t trust the National Monument agenda: 
#1 Utah is already full to the brim with Nat’l Parks and Monuments.  

#2 State’s rights have been trampled upon time and time again by the Conservation Lands Foundation and their cronies.  First the “Monument Men” come with promises that things will not be affected, MUCH, by a National Monument.  Then they decimate logging, mining, oil, and coal industries and the tax base that these companies provide and which support our schools. Next they start reducing the AUMS for cattle grazing.  The next to be impacted are the stable family businesses which are replaced by seasonal recreation and tourism jobs.  This in turn affects school enrollment, and families are driven away from the rural life style they and their ancestors have loved and worked for all their lives.  (This scenario is still playing out at Grand Staircase Escalante NM designated 20 years ago.)  

#3 And instead of protection, last year 1400 cases of vandalism dotted that Staircase acreage -- all caused by tourists.  This is not what we want in San Juan County, Utah.  Please reexamine your causes, and pick those that truly bless the land and the people who care about it.  Support existing “public” land policies which allow for multiple land use while protecting the actual areas where ancient cultures lived, not mountain ranges where watershed, and recreation are better managed by local input.  The original designation of the Cedar Mesa area was a more honest and needed focus for environmental concerns, and there are actually “antiquities” there.    Maybe you need to come visit the area, to actually understand the issues.

Janet Wilcox