Battle over Bears Ears~~KUED

KUED Documentary on Bears Ears
Bill Keshlear and Jim Stiles Examine "Battle Over Bears Ears"

Jim Stiles Looks at CNN, PBS and KUED Documentaries on Bears Ears. 
Sloppy Journalism or Glimmer of Hope?  (Includes links to video and other references)

Mail in Voting on the Reservation: Pros and Cons --Sept. 2016

Occult group in Monument Vally -- Escorted out -- Navajo Times Nov. 30

Why the Right to Bear Arms is Important

Kay Shumway: Roots, Recreation, and Reflections of Life in San Juan   A great article by Jim  So over three summers I rode my bike from Canada to Mexico. First year, I went a thousand miles. Then I went back to where we’d quit, and went 800 miles the second year. The third year,  I completed the last 700 miles."

Stiles capturing milestones and events in the life of Patsy and Kay Shumway including: family, education, development of a college campus in Blanding, orchards and biking. "
Green House:  "I believed in solar power. Photovoltaics and water heating. And so, the kids and I built a greenhouse. About 70 feet long and 18 feet wide and the slope of the glazing to get maximum sun in the wintertime. And we grew tomatoes and cucumbers. We had these barrels full of water. The sun would shine in there, heat up the water in those barrels, keep it from freezing at night. So we’d walk in through 2 feet of snow, walk in and be warm, all these lush plants, our tomatoes up 6 feet high. "

Cross Still Stands Following Horrific California Fires

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How the Monumental Bad News Started in 2016:  
Bears Ears Brinkmanship: With Friends Like These, Does Cedar Mesa Need Enemies?
…by Stacy Young

"One such nugget comes about an hour into the (fall 2016 John Hopkins) presentation, when Tommy Beaudreau, Chief-of-Staff of former Interior Secretary Jewell, explains that the decision to launch the monument directly into the current political thresher was done with full knowledge that what has happened would happen. He acknowledges that the administration knew in late 2016 that the monument proclamation would be received as an act of provocation if not a declaration of total war. They knew there was no chance that the monument as designated would be properly funded or any other constructive steps taken toward its implementation. They knew the ensuing controversy would be protracted and the outcome of the fight uncertain. They knew this chain reaction would negatively impact the landscape and its cultural resources. And still they set it in motion."

Beware of "Wolves at the Door" in Utah's Dixie by Senator Orrin Hatch

Mexican Wolves Do Not Belong in Utah!
"As part of their proposal to “reintroduce” 750 Mexican wolves, these scientists want to have a self-sustaining population of 250 wolves in southern Utah and northern Arizona – places that fall well outside the predators’ historic range. How can you “recover” Mexican wolves in areas where they have not been?"

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feel that the Canyon Zephyr articles are too long with too many details, 

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Life in the West

·       Get Informed about Propositions you’ll be Voting on – Before your Ballot Comes!

This link explains the Pros and Cons from the Lt. Governor’s Office

·       Glen Canyon/ Lake Powell more visitors and spending than Zions

·       New Editor for San Juan Record.  Bill Boyles Retires after 24 Years!

·       Dust in the Wind: Reflections by Editor Bill Boyle

·       Selling San Juan County Part II: The Gentrification of the New West: a la Moab, Durango, Jackson Hole

~Lynn Jackson, former Grand County Councilman: “It’s all rather confusing to me. San Juan doesn’t want to become another Moab, yet they are following the exact blueprint that got Moab on its path to progressive nirvana. Welcoming and supporting outdoor environmental education programs and investments, providing support for building mountain bike trails, hiring an economic development coordinator with deep ties to the megalithic outdoor recreation industry, and creating a tourism slogan that’s over the top, in this case ridiculously over the top. “Make it Monumental” is just hard to figure, sending the message you’re all good with monuments down there, in light of what’s gone in the last 18 months? San Juan, looks like you’re well on your way, following the recipe exactly.“

~In discussing Springdale, Utah and Nat’l Parks: “Yale professor James Scott argues that ancient cities were walled not just to keep invaders out, but to keep the slaves whose labor the elites depended upon in.  The modern city has improved upon the ancient model by replacing physical walls with nifty technologies like exclusionary zoning, subsistence wages and commuting.  This framework guarantees the provision of all the poorly compensated labor necessary to sustain a bourgeois utopia with virtually none of the pesky visual evidence of actual poverty or hassles of chattel slavery.  Win-win.”  

~Stacy Young: “Both Blanding and Monticello have had about the same population since 1980, and the relationship between incomes and the cost of living in both towns is rational and predictable.  In fact, the average household in each of these towns earns significantly more than their counterparts in the more trendy towns (Moab)  of the region, and this remains the case despite the sagging fortunes of extractive industries in the county over the past 30 years.  Of course, this relative wealth advantage is further boosted, by a lot, when it is adjusted for the disparity in the cost of living between, say, Monticello and Moab. The disinvestment and depopulation crisis that defines much of rural America does not really describe conditions in San Juan County.”

 

n  Loans for Businesses Crippled by Drought in Southern Utah

n  Follow Comments: Petition to Gov: Stop Buying Foreign Uranium

n  Tired of contention and strife: Follow San Juan Connections, and  share your own connection story

“At Neldon Cochran's funeral and viewing, October 7, 2017, I visited with Jodi Laws Cochran. As an Air Force pilot, her husband Jerry has been assigned all over world, yet everywhere they went they met people with Blanding connections. She suggested I collect stories with that theme. I thought it was a great idea, and with everyone's help, it is becoming a reality. This blog is dedicated to Jodi and Jerry Cochran, the impetus for making it happen. Enjoy.  Please share additional “connections.”

n  Jim Stiles:  Media Bias and San Juan County Government(s)

~~ It was arranged for the USC students to be featured on the PBS News Hour. Their task was to fairly portray, to a national audience, the ongoing complex political and cultural clashes and controversies in San Juan County-- and do it in five minutes and forty-eight seconds.”   Such is the shallowness of television coverage dealing with controversy!  Stiles’ article provides links to the PBS slanted coverage. With due respect to the college team:  what they originally submitted was 11 minutes long, but  PBS kept hacking away!

The size and complicated logistics of Navajo Reservation polices and politics deserved to be included in the PBS video, as well as how and why they consider themselves a sovereign nation and how that impacts county government in four states                                                                                       

n  SL Tribune: Marking the 22^nd Anniversary of GS Escalante NM

n  Selling San Juan County: Part I

n  Judge Tanya Chutkan Denies Transfer of Suit to Utah

“Conservation and Indian groups say the Antiquities Act doesn't allow Trump or any other president to revoke or shrink an existing monument.”

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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: August 7, 2018

In the News 

n  Wayne County Votes Consider Changing County Government from Three Member Commission

n  Bias Problem Plaguing Social Media Platforms

n  Intertribal Coalition Gathers at Bears Ears

n  MESA Plays Religion Card/ Letter to Chris Stewart About Environment

n  Democrats Don’t Fear Kavanaugh, They Fear the Constitution

   San Juan County Primary Election Still a Topic of Concern
         A Very Close Race Leaves Many Shaking Their Heads

n  Free Range Journalist Lassoed by Mustang Joe

Congratulations to Joel and Majorie on their wedding, and new life in La Sal as bonified San Juan County residents! Majorie is looking for a writing/or teaching job.  If you have any leads let her know.  marjoriehaun@yahoo.com

n  Stiles Dissects CNN’s Spin on the Bears Ears & SJ Resources

“. . .Thousands of CNN viewers came away thinking there were virtually no health care facilities on the reservation portion of San Juan County. That kind of disregard by CNN for the facts, by deliberately editing them out of the narrative, could be construed as its own form of bias and discrimination against the one Native American (Eva Ewald) in the van that had the facts right.”

Blanding Mayor talking politics with Jim Stiles

n  8 Minute Video Segment Doesn’t Do Justice to Complexity of Public Lands

n  For Serious Protestors: SUWA SUCKS REDROCK EDITION FB

n  Grazing Allotments and National Monuments Get Informed and Involved

Information for Ranchers: Here is a list of challenges that ranchers face when trying to graze on lands within national monuments. Not surprisingly these challenges have led to dramatic reductions in grazing:

1.      --You can’t use materials on the monument – this means you can’t cut cedar posts to repair fences from land nearby. -- must transport all materials from range improvements to your allotment, which leads to …

2.      --You can’t use mechanized equipment or motorized vehicles to fix water lines or fences. Even if you could…

3.      Infrastructure and roads are not maintained. --The gravel pits inside the monument were no longer available, and the Monument has never had workforce out maintaining roads.

4.      Land managers will use rules and regulations to try to squeeze out private landowners to acquire inholdings left in the monument.

5.      --You will likely be required to fence off riparian areas.

6.      --You will have to fight for your water rights.

7.      --You will have to fight to make any range improvements or to build facilities like bigger holding pens.

8.       

Note from Site Manager: “If you don’t engage in this process, you can be assured that those who don’t want you grazing these lands will be there every step of the way fighting against you. We’re here to help fight for you.” Benjamin Burr @ Rangeland Strategies.com  

 

n  Federal Judge Puts Greyeyes Back on November Ballot!

“Grayeyes lists an address on Piute Mesa near Navajo Mountain as his residence. He was born at the location and has argued that his umbilical cord, buried soon after his birth, establishes his residency according to Navajo tradition.”

n  Are Monticello Bike Trails the Beginning of the Bike Borg Invasion?

“In Moab when construction began on the multi-million dollar “elevated bikeway” in 2013, I contacted the BLM to ask about environmental assessments and efforts to involve the public in the process. The BLM’s Katie Stevens informed me that there had indeed been an EA and a public comment period—in 2004—more than eight years earlier, and that no one commented. No one. THAT’s how projects like this succeed. Apathy.”  . . .” Many issues in this county deserve serious scrutiny and analysis and discussion by the local media. All I did was to provide hard facts that very few people were previously aware of. Like I said in my reply to Mr Haven in 2014, “What the citizens of San Juan County do with that information is entirely up to them.”  Jim Stiles

n  Visitors to Zions Defy Rangers Warnings, Are Later Arrested

n  Conservation in the West Polls; Do these Questions seem slanted?  Check out each state, questions asked and results.

“The survey, conducted in eight western states, explores bi-partisan opinions in each state and for the Rocky Mountain West region concerning conservation, environment, energy, the role of government, trade-offs with economies, and citizen priorities.” 

Majorie Haun:  "Conservation in the West" survey is a propaganda tool to push an industrial recreation agenda.”

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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