~~ Bear Essentials ~ Sept 24, 2017~~

A Monument in Name Only?  Salt Lake Tribune

“San Juan County officials reject claims that looting is even a problem, arguing tourists pose a bigger threat to the region’s fragile cultural sites embedded in it canyons and mesas. . .

The Bear Ears Commission members’ June 28 hike with BLM staff provoked an angry response from the San Juan County Commission, which has lobbied hard for the monument’s rescission on the grounds that it disenfranchises local citizens and serves no legitimate purpose.”

v Federal Land Ownership: Is it Constitutionally Legal?

v Read Article and then vote: Should Federal Ownership of State land be capped at 50%?

v Time Magazine’s view on National Monuments Under Review 

v San Juan County and Contentious USFS Road Closures in the News

                         

   Good News Bear

n  The Hill Reports Several National Monuments to be Downsized

n  Frivolous BE Law Suits Shouldn’t Waste Navajo Tribal Funds by Ryan Benally

n  Dan Love Finally Ousted as BLM Employee

n  Love Fired for Corruption and Theft

n  To Sec. Zinke: Don’t Let False Narratives Block Monument Review

n  Privately Owned Farms and Ranches the Cornerstone of Conservation

n  Libertarian Environmentalism looks at Monuments

n  Forest Service to allow mineral exploration near Mt. St. Helens

n  Grand Canyon Legislation to allow hunters in managing herds

n  Maine Leads the Charge in Food Sovereignty Movement  “Maine is nullifying federal regulations that cripple local farmers.”

n  Darren Parry, NW Shoshone Chairman speaks at Freedom Fest

n  Join the 21^st Century Sage Brush Rebellion

n  Zinke Directive Emphases Fuel Reduction to Control Wildfires

“This year-to-date, 47,700 wildfires have burned 8 million acres across the country, with the majority of the devastation in the states of California and Montana. High-profile fires in Yosemite and Glacier National Parks have caught national headlines, however millions of acres of forest and grassland have burned in recent months.”

n  Tracking Proposed Monument Reductions  Stanford University, Bill Lane I.

n  Navajo People have been Restricted Enough  by Gen Mitchell

 

 Bad News Bears

n  Forest Service Planning to Obliterate Roads in SJC

n  More information on designated road closures

n  See What SUWA’s Up To

Despite the strong likelihood that Bears Ears National Monument will be modified in coming months, Forest Service officials in southeastern Utah are planning to destroy at least 14 public roads within the monument’s current boundaries.

n  Indivisible Project; well funded and spreading  The Indivisible Project is a registered 501c(4) nonprofit. Our mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies. i.e. World Globalism

n  Yet another “Shift” to the Left Jonah Yellowman, one of their speakers

n  WildEarth Guardians are set to “Mobilize When the Time Comes”

n  Outside Magazine Claims Zinke’s Memo Contains Lies

n  “Outside” writer, Claims Gun Shops Automatically enroll buyers in NRA

n  BLM Farmington Office Stalls on Drilling Permits

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http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

                                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

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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