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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Letter to Senator Orrin Hatch

Sent to Senator Orrin Hatch August 16, 2016

Even though we know you visited San Juan County earlier this summer, we haven't heard much from you since, and Rural Utah really needs your support and negotiating skills. In 2014 the Environmental funding lobby, Conservation Lands Foundation, set their target on Cedar Mesa, in San Juan County along with sites in a dozen other states as the “current campaign” for more National Monuments.  If protection truly is their goal, then that is the area where Anasazi ruins abound, and they probably do need greater protection, though we’re not sure that more tourists are the wisest way to do that!

 Now in 2016, we are engaged in a great land battle, trying to escape the greedy grasp of the CLF, who has now expanding their campaign to include a total of 1.9 Million acres.  This involves Forest Service lands of Bears Ears and the Abajo Mountains. Very few sites exist in this area, but it is where Native People and Anglos alike depend on its grass, timber, and water. Hunting, Boy Scout camps, and 101 recreational activities are centered in this area, along with Dine and Ute traditional activities. To abscond with this land, is government overreach. 

Both Cedar Mesa and the Blue Mountain area already have BLM policies, and Forest Service controls established, but both have been underfunded.  If these lands needed protection, why wasn't federal money provided so both agencies could do their job?  Making another National Monument is not going to fix a $18 Trillion dollar debt, nor help improve protection, or economic livelihood of the area.  We feel you are in a position to do something significant to stop this impending disaster.  Utah cannot afford another donation to Obama's National Monument showcase. Why aren't our congressmen fighting for us?  

A group of 2000 local people have been working for 6 weeks, in every way we know how, to alert others, argue our case, bend the ear of our congressmen, and Secretary Jewell.  We have signed petitions, written letters, gone to the State Capitol, built floats, stuffed newspapers with flyers, and argued our cause in every way we know.  None of us are directed by a well-paid CEO, nor reimbursed for our expenses.  We have done it because we love this land, that we today call home.  We say to the Hopi, and Navajo who want to come back to their old Utah homelands, “Come, Enjoy, Visit, Celebrate, and leave it as pristine as you find it.  But don’t take our freedoms and our land away from those who have lived here the past 200 years.”   We hope you will do more than appease listen, and look.  We need a warrior to lead this battle.