~~ 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

Bear Essentials ~~ APRIL 8, 2017

n  April 12 noon: Beyond Standing Rock. KUED Channel 7

n  and Sunday April 30, 3 PM

n  Results of SOS fundraisers last week:  Ticket Sales at SJC Republican dinner brought in $390 plus the Glock pistol was generously donated by them.  An additional $1910 was generated by ticket sales, donations, and the cake auction at Comic Relief April 3. Eva Workman was the winner of the pistol.  Many thanks to all who purchased tickets both here and afar!  Donations will be used for No-Monument advertising and this Summer’s Freedom Fest.  Stewards of San Juan still have size Medium No Monuments shirts for sale for $8. Contact Wendy Black 435-459-1970.

n  If you need a bigger size, or choice in color go to Amazon.com and search “bears ears no monument shirt”.  These were designed by the Crippen family, and we get a % back from each sale.  Ours are a better price than the Pro-Monument shirts!

n  We are working with Sutherland Institute to expand our message via TV ads, and videos.  Find them here.  

n  Add this layover onto your Profile picture on Facebook.   http://profile.actionsprout.com/o/0B0058

n  Legal ramifications giving Presidential Authority to Revoke or Reduce National Monument Designations.  Video includes Mike Lee, Robb Bishop, focuses on the Antiquties Act which is always "behind the scenes."

n  Be informed and supportive of local businesses.  This Weeks Featured Business White Mesa Uranium Mill.               
      What Grand Canyon Trust says:

n  Rare Historic Photos digitized for public Use.  There are many San Juan County Ones.

n  Jim Keyes had a great article in the April Utah Cattlemen Newsletter.  Thanks, Jim, for the thumbs up. 

n  San Juan County ranchers/ farmers are invited to 2nd Annual Range Rights and Resource Symposium next month in Omaha, Nebraska. It's going to be an outstanding two days with speakers on private property and federal land management issues held at Bellevue University and will include a tour of the University of Nebraska Lincoln Research Center. For more info see http://rangerights.com 

n  Continue to write or call Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke. He is getting LOTS of pressure from the Green Urbanites as is President Trump.  Please stay engaged with your encouraging words of support and ideas.

Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke: 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington DC 20240
Phone: (202) 208-3100
Email: Email Dept. of the Interior

 Good News Bears

~Grazing Fees Equalized N. Dakota 

~Be sure to read Jim Stiles newest issue of the Canyon Zephyr. Especially the Bears Ears Alternative Solution

~Antiquities Act in the Cross Hairs of conservative congressmen

Western Republicans hope Trump will revoke some monuments created under previous presidents, but would also like to pass legislation altering the Antiquities Act, the 1906 law that allows the president to protect large swaths of land without Congress’s consent.

~Janet Chilcoat caught by cowboys interfering with livestock in SJC  Poetic justice as the Bears Ears Boys just dedicated a song to her Monday Night!

~DOI ends coal moratorium  Zinke steps up to the plate for oil and gas development. by Marjorie Haun

“Department of Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, former U.S. Representative from Montana, has made it clear that he intends to implement President Trump’s America-first energy plan. Leaving environmentalists howling–and likely gearing-up for an avalanche of lawsuits–Zinke is moving swiftly in both word and deed to make Interior the Department of Energy Independence.”

~President Trump orders opening up Conservation Lands to aid Ranchers devastated by wildfires

Bad News Bears

n  Mark Maryboy and Cynthia Wilson go public again

n  Blowing up small dams, next agenda item for the forest service?

n  Wilderness Red Rock Bill reintroduced in House of Representatives

n  Western Wildway in the plans by aggressive Green-Machine

n  Extreme Green lawsuits delay BLM Payments to N. Mexico   New Mexico’s efforts to end its current fiscal year in the black are being complicated by a $69.9 million payment from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management that is delayed by protests of lease agreements.

n  Enviromental Tyranny caused by abuse of “Equal Access to Justice Act.”   By Marjorie Haun The Sue and Settle green machine game: …over a decade, eight environmental groups filed more than 3,300 cases in federal district courts across the country. In the last two years of the Bush Administration, seven groups filed 253 lawsuits; in the first two years of the Obama Administration, those groups filed 525 lawsuits…It is not only the sum; also outrageous is the hourly rate granted to environmental group attorneys. Instead of the statutory hourly ($125), these lawyers averaged $491; the highest rate awarded was $775!”

n  Back log of maintenance in National Parks and Monuments raises questions on funding

n  The National Park Service spent the most on administrative leave among DOI agencies, with 69 employees on leave for nearly 62,000 hours at a cost of more than $2 million. Indian Affairs put the greatest number of employees on administrative leave at 83, for a total of nearly 55,000 hours, costing $1.8 million. Read full story

~~ The Paradox of trying to Protect Forests   Trees need to be harvested to prevent forest fires.

~~  Stupidest Op-ed I’ve read this week:  Written by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia for LA Times******

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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