Event recommended for those 10 and up.
n Petroglyph
Video of Representative Mike Noel speaking at San Juan County’s
Republican Dinner March 30. (Thanks, Monte
Wells.) After the event, Mike drove back
to Kanab, arriving about 3:30 AM. What a
road warrior he is! Want to thank him or
communicate? (mnoel@kanab.net) Thank you, Cody Nielson, Sterling Black, Vint
Degraw, the organizers of the Rep. dinner, for inviting him to come Thursday.
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Sutherland's Institute, in conjunction with Stewards of San Juan
has created a new Website and Facebook page to help keep track of the Bears
Ears National Monument. Please Like
their/our page https://www.facebook.com/RescindBearsEars/ and visit RescindBearsEars.com for more information.
n Sign Petition
to Rescind Bears Ears and get
your family/ friends to do likewise.
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
Phone: (202) 208-3100
Email: Email Dept. of the Interior
n Interested in Old Blanding City Council minutes? These
go back to 1916!
“[Zinke's] view
is that we have too many people working in Interior in Washington, D.C., when
the work that needs to be done is out in the states and particularly in the
West, and he wants to move a lot of the management decisions and a lot of the
people from Washington out to the states...”
Yay for Zinke!!
· Showdown
on Government over-reach addressed at Dodge City, Kansas convention. “A coalition of Navajos and local leaders
opposed to the designation of Utah’s Bears Ears region as a national monument
traveled from Southern Utah to attend the conference.” Those participating included Commissioner Bruce Adams, Val Dalton, Wendy
Black, Lewis & Donna Singer, Marie Holiday, Wallace and Anna Tom and Betty
Jones. We hope they will have an
opportunity for sharing information in the near future.
One concern we have often seen is stated
in the article: “In recent
history, federal agencies have conferred upon themselves — through the
administrative rule-making process — expansive powers and authorities not
present in original statutory law. Through the cumbersome, complex and
ineffective public comment/rule-making process, federal agencies create for
themselves rules, regulations and policies, imposing them on the public as
binding and having the weight of law.
·
BLM 2.0 repealed by
Trump. Governor Herbert and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski were
present at the signing March 27. Herbert
said, ‘"We want to optimize the
management, the outcome, the results of our public lands and multiple use. Utah and other rural states were critical of
the 2.0 plan saying it added another layer that does not provide a better
outcome and actually diminishes the role of the state and local governments. Undoing the regulation ensures that "western
stakeholders will no longer be relegated to the sidelines, and once again be
able to ensure that decisions are being made locally — not thousands of miles
away at BLM headquarters," Murkowski said. (She was one of the sponsors of
the bill—Write and
thank her)
· Wendell Berry quote via Jim Stiles: ”While most
environmentalists object to the impacts from the extraction of natural
resources, they rarely connect the dots to the gasoline they keep pumping into
their SUVs. They loathe the damage caused by the production of resources but
have no trouble consuming them.”
· See how Congressman Chris Steward was
treated at the Town Hall meeting Friday, 3/31 . You’ll hear and see the nature of the beast we are battling.
· Dependence upon foreign countries for
minerals is troubling. United States is now import-dependent for 50 different metals
and minerals – and 100 percent import-dependent for 20. Why then are we locking up land with natural
resources?
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Coming in April: Beyond Standing Rock. KUED Channel 7
Wed. April 12, noon and
Sunday April 30, 3 PM