Showing posts with label Primary election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Primary election. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: August 7, 2018



In the News 

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

. . .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  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  




 



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.”
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  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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