Quote
of the week:
“It is often said we now live in two Americas.
Nowhere is that description truer then when it comes to land owned by the
federal government. In the United States east of the Rockies, the federal
government owns just 4 percent of all land. But west of the Rockies, the
federal government owns more than half of all land including almost two thirds
of all land in Utah. When an unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy owns and
manages more than half the land in your state, that is a recipe for disaster.” Senator Mike Lee
“Creating too large national monuments — results in agencies
lacking the necessary resources to adequately manage sites. The federal
government currently has a backlog of $18.62 billion in
maintenance projects. A better approach is to right-size monuments and
allow for limited economic activity in areas where there won’t be damage.”
v National Monuments Discussed by Heritage Foundation Washington DC
(10-4) Includes: Senator Mike Lee, Congressman Rob Bishop, Matt
Anderson, Ryan Benally, New England fisherman, and Maine sportsman. The
Antiquities Act was also discussed. This
was very informative. Listen and Learn..
“In the
nearly fifty years since it was signed into law, the ESA has done more to impede
economic activity, obstruct local conservation efforts, and give federal
bureaucrats regulatory control over private property, than it has done to
protect endangered species."
Senator Mike Lee
v KUER Looks a
Bears Ears Stories Local interviews with Judy Fahys
v Brief History of Recapture Canyon A video series compiled by Monte Wells
v Consider Donating to Free Range
Report (Majorie is a non-NGO funded, patriot who deserves our support
and thanks. No one has helped San Juan
County more.)
Good News Bears
~Mr. Zinke has ordered all his agencies
to put a priority on active management against wildfires. “We are spending $2
billion a year fighting fires, money that could be going to far better
conservation efforts,” he says, visibly annoyed. ~Such
mismanagement is what drives Western frustration, which threatens to become a
new Sagebrush Rebellion. “Some of the anger is that our grand bargains have
been broken, and those bargains said that you had wilderness, but you also have
grazing; you could also hunt and fish,” Mr. Zinke says. Now Westerners “watch
these catastrophic fires, and they’ve lost any faith that the federal
government is capable of being a good steward.”
“We will hold people accountable when we are
informed that they have failed in their duties and obligations,” Bernhardt
“There is a
reason we allow presidents to undo the actions of their predecessors. A president who could
unilaterally set policy forever would have far too much power and be free of
political checks and balances. President
Barack Obama designated most of his record-setting monuments during the
twilight of his second term, long after the threat of electoral defeat had
passed. Free of political checks, he ran wild with this power.”
n Navajo
Nation Should Not Sue Over Bears Ears by Ryan Benally
“Federal
lands included in Bears Ears and other national monuments need management by
local people on the ground , not by judges in black robes. A starting point would be
to require approval by state congressional delegations of any national monument
designated in their state. Let state wildlife managers have more say in whether
grizzlies are removed from the endangered species list. Entrust
Indian tribes with management of their antiquities as they already
are with Canyon de Chelly National Monument.
Most of Bears Ears is under the purview of the Bureau of Land
Management. It is time to return to the BLM motto: “Land of many uses”—not
land of no uses.”
n Standing in Another
Man’s Shoes by Jim Stiles, Canyon
Zephyr editor
n
BLM Reverses Obama Era Mineral
Leasing ban in the West [This is huge!]
Bad News Bears
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Documenting
Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016
