Beyond The Bears Ears: Wallace Stegner Center

*March 14 Wallace Stegner Center Symposium:

A few of the Red Flag topics and presenters: The Dynamic West: Economic & Demographic Change
Ray Rasker, Headwaters Economics; 12:50 p.m.

Thursday: 12:30 Utah’s Monumental Controversy: Revisiting the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
John Ruple, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (Moderator)
Steve Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Constance E. Brooks, C.E. Brooks & Associates, P.C.
Nicole Croft, Grand Staircase Escalante Partners

2:45 p.m. – Sage Grouse Conservation: The Challenge of Multi-Jurisdictional Planning

*Mike Noel Retiring after 16 years in State Leadership

*Who Speaks for the Colorado Plateau? High Country News

Is “the role of environmental groups is to save the Colo; Plateau FROM

the people who live there?"

*Pay attention to Voting Districts: Things have changed in SJC

(Vint DeGraw has posted several clarifications in San Juan Political Debate: Scroll)
*Stay in Contact with 3^rd District Representative: John Curtis https://curtis.house.gov/contact/email

n Utah Farm Bureau Defends Monument Size Reduction

"Grazing allotments in the monuments are not just land, they are the linchpin of the Western ranching community. The Farm Bureaus’ member ranching families manage the natural resources on these lands for both their livelihood and wildlife."

n Sean Reyes Plans Suit to Give States Control of Public Lands KUER

n Sec. Zinke Working to Rebuild National Parks Infrastructure

Zinke’s page is a good FB site to follow, as there is much going on in DOI, and lots of opinions.

n Bill Demands Fair Compensation from “in lieu of” taxes from Feds

n Des News Contradicts NY Times Accusations Regarding Bears Ears

n Harrison Johnson Speaks out at District Realignment Hearing

n Local News Live: Voting districts, Energy Fuels & More Bill Boyle

n Com. Lyman asks Judge Shelby to Recuse Himself in Voting Decision

n BLM Should Move West Nevada Appeal

n Arrow to the Heart Documents BLM Abuses in Wyoming

n Utah House Resolution Exempts State from Future Land Grabs

n Rep. Mike Noel Proposes Renaming Highway to honor Pres. Trump

n This Bill was later withdrawn, but it woke up a lot of people up!

n Top Stories of 2017 in the Four Corners Four Corners Free Press

n Tourism Remains the same, in spite of Resizing Grand Staircase NM

n Americans Pay a High Price From Destructive, Deadly Forest Fires

n Mt. Valley Tribal Park Investigated

n NY Times Version of the Downsizing of Bears Ears

n Ute Leader part of Deep Pockets Environmental Board

n Conspiracy Against American Farmers

n Federal Government Incapable of Taking Care of more Public Land

“These days, [The Dept. of] Interior spends over $200 million a year buying land. That raises the perennial question: how much is enough? The government already owns 635 million acres, almost a third of the United States. That includes 250 million acres of BLM, 193 million acres of national forests, 84 million acres of national parks, and 150 million acres of wildlife refuges. And as the maintenance backlog demonstrates, the government cannot begin to manage it all.”

n Grand Canyon Trust Files Suit Over Mountain Goat Damage

n BLM’s Thugocracy Lives On

n Greenhorns Try Their Hand at Staking Mining Claims

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