Beyond The Bears Ears: Nat'l Geographic

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Friday, December 14, 2018

Cows Not Condos! Bear Essentials Dec. 6-14, 2018

Christmas Gift Ideas

The San Juan Record has many books

and even the newest National Geographic

with articles/ history of Bears Ears.

Past issues of Blue Mountain Shadows

also sold there as well as in many

Blanding Locations.

~~Jim Carlson: Reforming Administrative Government

~~Landowner Wants out of Bluff City Incorporation

~~Read and Support the Canyon Zephyr

~~Boulder Rancher uses Cows to Protest Tourism:

~~ Read and Support: Free Range Report

~~More National Parks Needed; Bring on the Tourists Opinion SLT

~~Interior Dept. Inspector General Confirms Abuses by BLM employees

~~Lawsuits, Legislation, and Land Use since Bears Ears/ Grand Staircase were Downsized --KSL

~~Malheur Ranchers Given a Week to Respond to 'Fishy' Forest Service Report
"For example, federal agencies have developed their environmental data about steelhead populations by studying areas where fish are unlikely to travel, such as upstream of multiple “check dams” installed by the Forest Service to slow water flow, Stout said.

Though ranchers aren’t responsible for the problem, grazing cattle nonetheless get the blame, he said. If you go against their agenda, you’re demonized,” he said."

~~Mark Franklin and Rose Chilcoat Claim They Were Kidnapped --"In another bizarre turn of events last week, Franklin’s team filed a complaint with the San Juan County Prosecutors Office claiming Mark Franklin and Rose Chilcoat were kidnapped by Zeb Dalton and Zane Odell when they detained them at the scene of the crime in 2017.

~~Friends of Cedar Mesa Involved in Self Appointed Road Closure

"Last week Josh Nielson of Blanding, Utah was out with a client in the Butler Wash / Comb Ridge area when he came across a group of folks building barricades across a couple of county roads. One of the roads was county road D2138 which was not closed. . . The fact that FCM, who purport to be “environmentalists,” are dragging logs, rocks, digging up sand and dirt to create these barricades without an environmental impact study, should cause great concern for the BLM. The transference and damage to artifacts as well as damage to the macrobiotic soil (Cryptobiotic soil crust), plants, and the area in general should warrant a criminal investigation to say the least by the Bureau of Land Management." The Petroglyph Dec. 5

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Political Ponderings:

Quotes from Thomas Jefferson

~~"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.-- TJ

~~"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on, would save one-half the wars of the world." --TJ

~~"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them."--TJ

~~"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."TJ

~~"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --TJ

~~"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes, the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.--TJ

Friday, June 22, 2018

BEAR ESSENTIALS: June 22, 2018

v Article by Amy Joi O’Donoghue : Land management vs. law enforcement. Senator Mike Lee: “It is incumbent on this subcommittee to ask whether combining resource management and criminal law enforcement has resulted in a profound disservice to both,” Lee said. “We need to get back to managing federal lands as opposed to terrorizing the communities that surround them,” he said Monday. [Shake, Rattle, and Troll]

v National Geographic Article: What Shrinking of National Monuments Means

v Scott Pruitt, His Vision for the EPA

v Historic Election next week in Bluff

v Glenn Beck: D-Day, Boy Scouts, Chris Herrod & 2^nd Amendment

v 50 Mllion $ Contract from Bureau of Reclamation to Local Archaeology Co.

v Three Californias On Ballot: Op-ed in Los Angeles Times

n Phil Lyman Interview by Bryan Hyde: Freedom vs. Militarized BLM

n Related article: BLM Attack at Dr. Redd’s Home

n Media Round Up of Articles Related to Artifact Sting in Blanding

n Arizona Humane Society Fails to Qualify Wildlife Ballot Initiative

n John Herrod Runs as Conservative Candidate for Congress

n Senator Mike Lee Addresses Illegal Imprisonment

n Public Lands a Political Test: The Malheur Wildlife Confrontation

n Willie Greyeyes Files Lawsuit Against San Juan County

n Fox News: Greyeyes Lawsuit

n Bluff Dilemma: When a Guppy Swallows a Whale

n The Dilemma of Increased Tourism: Zions Park Controversy

n Colorado River Reservoirs Headed to Historic Low

n Foreign Influence of Environmental Groups Erodes Military Readiness

n Accidental Burns vs. Controlled Burns? Which Causes More Damage?

n Dolores Fire: It’s gong to take a lot of Rain to put it out

n Too Many In Southern Utah Deny Climate Change Effects

n How Liberal Wackiness Wrecks Local Government

n Convicted Felons Hired to Promote Renewable Energy Initiative in Az.

n BLM Officer Shoots Nurse Riding off-road in Side by Side

http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

~~ Bear Essentials ~January 10, 2018 ~~

vJohn Ruple Univ. of Utah Professor of Law, discusses Public Lands

v Is it time for Tax Payers to Stop Subsidizing Public Land’s Recreation?

v Christmas message from President Trump

Good News Bears

n Congressional Hearings on H.R. 4532: SJC Nat’l Monuments Jan 9, 2018

n From Agriculture to Zinke: Biggest Stories of 2017

n Is Fighting Climate Change Worth Sacrificing Modern Civilization?

As the Washington Post wrote last week, “The world is turning more and more to renewable sources of energy… to fight climate change. But what if climate change itself alters the distribution of wind, or sunlight… or river flows, and so changes or even shrinks the potential of these energy sources?” No source of energy is without problems, so what are we to do?

n Protecting wilderness through tourism, an oxymoron Moab Sun Times

n Judge Dismisses Case Against the Bundy Family members !!!

n Oregon Live Details Bundy Case Dismissal

“U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case last month, saying federal prosecutors willfully withheld evidence that lawyers for the Bundys and alleged co-conspirator Ryan Payne should have had access to while mounting their defense.

She said the attorneys were in violation of the Brady rule, which requires prosecutors to disclose evidence that could be favorable to a defendant, and told them it wasn’t possible to proceed with the case.

On Monday, she dismissed the case “with prejudice,” meaning the government cannot retry the defendants. “The court finds that the universal sense of justice has been violated,” Navarro said.

n Bill Boyle Confronts False Claim of Durango Writer Durango Herald

“A frustrating reality of life in San Juan County is we are subject to gross mischaracterizations and, all too often, outright fabrications. I am afraid that Wells’ letter may play well in areas where the lack of knowledge of basic facts makes it easy to manipulate public opinion.”

n The Best Memes of 2017

n Feds Urge Court to Dismiss Climate Lawsuit Using Children as Pawns

n Anti-Fracking Groups in Trouble with the Courts

n Using Bacteria to Clean up Oil Spills and Cheat Grass

n Compliance Extension for Livestock Haulers until March