Showing posts with label Wallace Stegner Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wallace Stegner Center. Show all posts

Saturday, March 10, 2018

~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: March 10, 2018~~


*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

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


"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."
Zinke’s page is a good FB site to follow, as there is much going on in DOI, and lots of opinions.
n  BLM Should Move West  Nevada Appeal
n  Top Stories of 2017 in the Four Corners  Four Corners Free Press

  

“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.” 

Other Articles/ Events of Local Interest

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 http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/          
                        Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016