SJ Commission, Legislation, and Litigation ~~ 2/15/19

News in the West

San Juan County Commission Meeting

Tuesday Feb. 19 -- Monticello

Bluff Town Hall Meeting  

John Curtis is hosting a Town Hall meeting on Thursday, March 21st and wants to hear your perspectives and feedback. Please join him at the Bluff Community Center from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Follow link to reserve ticket.

Follow Bills in the State Legislature

Lee and Romney See New Lands Bill Differently

State Legislature Considers Bills Impacting San Juan

San Juan Record Live News Coverage Feb. 13

Fired Editor Starts Indian Creek Observer

Canyon Echo Revives

Newest Edition of Canyon Zephyr

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Week-long Poll garnered 782 Responses

Asking Should San Juan County Be Divided? Results: 

 68% voted Yes, Divide

32% Voted No

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~~ Laws/Greyeyes Suit Appealed to Utah Supreme Court

~~Rep. Bishop Confront's Patagonia Falsehoods 

~~Aneth Shuts Down Maryboy's Effort to Change Position on Bears Ears

~~ 4X4 Event Raises Money for Public Land Use Organizations

~~Colorado Commissioners Environmental Lobbying Spurs Recall Effort 

~~States Deserve a Voice When Determining Endangered Species

~~Native Group Fights for Jobs and Wise Use of Resources

"National environmental groups Sierra Club and Grand Canyon Trust are behind the campaign to stop NTEC from acquiring Navajo Generating Station and Kayenta Mine by spreading false information and pitting Diné against Diné. Their desire to close both facilities threatens the lifeblood of our Navajo Nation – our tribal sovereignty."

~~Twitter Senator Mike Lee

~~House Bill Would Expand Bears Ears Monument Back to 1.9 Million Acres

~~Despite $500 Million in State Benefits, Friends of Cedar Mesa Sues Over BLM Leases

~~Oil and Gas Lease Money Pose Contradictory Reactions

" Hypocrisy at work in Bluff? CIB (Community Impact Fund) money has been used by the Bluff Community for years, ALL of which comes from The Utah Permanent Community Impact Fund (CIB) which is 100% directly appropriated from [tainted?] Mineral Extraction on Federal lands and BLM lease royalties.

iRONICALLY, we learned this week that Bluff’s Friends of Cedar Mesa filed a lawsuit against the very federal oil and gas leases that help fund the CIB. Is this an example of "Biting the hand that feeds you? or a game of Extreme Double Dipping? 

Suggestion: Use the lawyer fees now being paid to Advocates for the West lawsuit, to pay for Bluff improvement projects, instead of draining tax payer's money from two directions for extreme no industry agendas. JW"             

Summary of Bluff CIB Projects below: 

~~ More Irony, New Green Deal Won't Allow Mining of Required Minerals

"The Green New Deal proposes a massive expansion in the use of renewable energy technologies that rely on critical minerals we are not allowed to mine in the United States."

~~Conflict over Canal Roads/ vs "Urban Trails" in Colorado

~~LaPlata Commissioners At Odds With Ranchers/ Farmers

~~Vultures: the Emerging Federally Protected Livestock Scourge 

~~ Urban Vultures Use SL Tribune to Attack Representative Phil Lyman

~~ Four Corners Free Press:  Overview on Greyeyes Hearing

~~ Bear Essentials ~ Sept 2, 2017~~

Shared Sacrifice for Water Users of the West: Colorado River

“I think it [Taking down Glen Canyon Dam] is scientifically dubious, legally implausible and politically suicidal,” says Mr. Entsminger in Nevada.

San Juan County Information:

n  Facebook Freedom Fest Information

n  Order your 2017 Freedom Fest Shirts today

n  Featured Freedom Fest Performer Tim Gates  San Juan Record

                         

Good News Bears

n  The Monumental battle over Monuments in the West  Deseret News

n  Trump has historic opportunity to check trend of expansive monuments

n  EPA Secretary Pruitt Demands Science over Environmental Activism

n  Southern Utah should not be Dictated to nor Dependent on Coastal Elites

n  Pacific Legal Foundation Applauds Adminstration’s Monument Review

n  Love’s “Investigation” made public; Congressman Bishop calls for investigation of unethical practices (“Love giving Moqui Marbles out like candy”)

n   Green Peace facing Lawsuits for Illegalities in Canada

n  Why the US Forest Service need Reforms

n  Zinke Suggests Shrinking 3 Monuments

n  Recommendations and National Monuments in Review

Bad News Bears

n  Synopsis of Dan Love’s Criminal Activities

n  If you watch TV or go on-line, you’ve run into lots of propaganda via expensive ads regarding Bears Ears.  They may show a paid child actor, or a rich businessmen, claiming San Juan county and the State of Utah are public land haters. Reminds me of something I recently read: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20

n  George Soros Floods Penn. DA Race with $1,700,000

n  Surprise recommendation from Zinke, concerning tribal co-management

n  Feds Determined to Crush Western Dissent, using Bundy’s as Target

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Performing Sept 9: Tim Gates and Freedom Fest 2017 Concert
Tim’s Facebook page
Listen to his Music:

Schedule for Saturday, Sept. 9

1)   Vendors and Concessions open 4 PM SJHS Football Field

Come Eat, Greet, and Meet 

$10 each (under 5 yrs  free)

2)   Donations $10 for 5 tickets (See Prizes)

13 donated prizes will be on display and tickets available with a donation

3)   Entertainment begins  at 6 PM with:

Magnetic Pull  

And   The Grayson Girls

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http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

                                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

Jewell Bashes Trump for Monument Review

Written in response to Deseret News

 7/26 news article quoting former secretary Jewell:

A very telling statement by Sally Jewell, "If you are not at the table, you are on the menu." 

Yes, Utah has been on the environmental menu for years, with millions of acres of "public" land being locked up by divisive means and purposes, and it's not to make America Great Again. Quite the contrary, public lands in dozens of states have been on the menu, for decades, until the working man, especially rural Americans have been pushed out of the picture, discredited, and told that endangered species are more important than their lives and their livelihood. 

If state's rights mean anything in this country anymore, we must give credence, and legality to elected officials, not to the clamoring, minions following extremist environmental foundations funded by Soros, Wyss, Bonderman, and board members of the Conservation Land Foundation. They are the creators of a menu which includes global manipulation, personal gain, and weakening of Constitutional rights. There's much more at stake than Monuments. 

Like Patrick Henry, "I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery" (in the form of socialism.)  "The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." Hooray, for Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Minnesota, W. Virginia, Montana, and other states who are fighting such encroachments legally, and legislatively. Monuments are not about protection, they are about power and weakening America.

  Janet Wilcox

Bear Essentials July 16, 2017

~~ Bear Essentials ~ July 16, 2017~~

  Video of Blanding 4th of July, 2017

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San Juan County Info & To Do LIst

n  The Department of Interior Public Comment Period has ended, and Secretary Zinke Releases Statement relative to future decisions.                  

Thank you All for participating and practicing your Citizenship.

n  About two dozen people altogether participated in the Forest Service hearing in Monticello and Blanding this past week. Thank you for going.

n  BLM Seeks to Streamline Review Planning Procedures   Des News               Submit Input and ideas by July 24  Here’s How

n  Public comments on the White Mesa Mill will be accepted through July 31.  E-mail to dwmrcpublic@utah.gov

It’s time to start paying attention to future candidates for the next election: From Heritage Foundation: ‘Obama's legacy is still in play in the federal courts. For example, before Obama took office only one of the thirteen Courts of Appeals -- the 9th Circuit -- was considered liberal. Now, nine out of the thirteen are controlled by liberal appointees!  On average, of the 55,000 cases that are heard by the Appellate Courts each year, only 70 go on to be heard by the Supreme Court. That means these judges have the final say on the 54,930 remaining cases each year, and their decisions become the laws that we as citizens must abide by. Right now, over 120 of these federal judge positions stand vacant. They are ready to be filled by committed constitutionalists. 

n  Native American Management of Antiquities.  Would it be a good match?

n  The “Greening of the West” and how it began (Oct.  2014) – by Jim Stiles- Start mid-way down to learn of the involvement of Bonderman, Wyss, and Fingerhut and how green money controls the “New West.”

n  English Literature classes often study the writings of patriots as well as poetry and prose. Bill Redd, former SJC commissioner and Constitutional author, came to SJHS several times to teach the power of Patrick Henry’s words to 11^th grade students.  Both Henry’s and Redd’s words are still motivational and relevant today.

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n  Cassy Moon’s Aunt even memorized part of Henry’s famous speech

n  Charley Daniel’s Celebrates America  An Awesome Video

                                                                  

Good News Bears

n  More than 400,000 Review Comments on Bears Ears Monument

n  10 Best States to find a job/ Can SJC become part of this success?

n  Top States based on Fiscal Responsibility  Yes, Utah is one of them!

n  Lessons on Liberty and Law Symposium

n  What we can learn from Brian Head fire: Changes to demand

n  Arizona Congressmen want Four Monuments Eliminated

n  Push to Downsize Organ Mountains in Arizona and allow multiple use

n  Jordon Cove Natural Gas Exports promoted by Colorado

n  Transparency in Communication needed in DOI

 

Bad News Bears

n  Grand Staircase N M: Benefits Do Not Outweigh Negative impacts.

“Clinton didn’t mention that the coal he was effectively locking away was a low-sulfur, clean-burning coal called “compliance coal,” so-named because it meets requirements set by the EPA. It is in demand worldwide as a fuel for electric plants. Nor did he mention that one of the only other places in the world where comparable coal is found is Indonesia, the home of Mochtar and James Riady, the Chinese government-connected billionaires who poured millions of dollars into Clinton campaigns in 1992 and 1996 . . .  there is a wellspring of venom flowing through the article in question, so much so that I am indisposed to mention its title. The truth is, the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument was a one-sided deal pulled off by a progressive president with little input from Utah’s conservative leaders, and zero regard for the devastating economic and cultural impacts it would have on the people who live in its shadow.  The greens are undoubtedly anxious that their delusional public lands Utopia is endangered by a pragmatic new administration which believes in resource development and states’ rights, but more than anything, they sense that their federal cash cow is coming to the end of its proverbial 7 years of fatness.,”   Majorie Haun

n  Enviro Green money funnels into Colorado Congressional Contest  “Steyer has even brought in help from New York hedge-fund billionaire George Soros. Both men are senior figures in the Democracy Alliance, a left-wing donor network of millionaires and billionaires which Politico describes as “the left’s secret club.” And both men have clearly signaled where they will focus their outside spending in the battle for control of the Colorado state legislature this year.”

n  Heal Utah.Org: Jonathon Thompson Weighs in on Bears Ears

n  Soro’s funded publication says Koch Brothers money is behind Anti-Monument Campaign

n  No Change for Washington State NM

n  The Spectrum:  Protect Monuments Before it’s Too Late

n  Fed. Gov refuses to allow use of helicopters in Montanta fire fighting

n  Public Land fees: What is their impact?   

n  Lifetime Sr. Citizen Nat’l Park Pass to jump from $10 to $80, Aug. 28

                                                         

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http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

                                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016