Bear Essentials* APRIL 1, 2017

 n  Plan to Come Monday Night April 3-- Bears Ears Comic Relief –  Donations Appreciated—Arts and Events Center

An evening of humor and fun providing “Comic Relief” will feature Grand Old Broads in Recovery, Lilly Tomblin at the Bears Ears Information Booth; and the infamous Bears Ears Boys 7 PM  April 3. Musical parodies, cowboy poetry, and skits are on tap along with Leonie and Allen Hunt, with a musical tribute to SJC. Please invite your like-minded friends and family to come enjoy this event. Jim Keyes will run the Cake Auction followed by the raffle drawing and pot luck dessert bar at the end. (Please bring something to share if you can). Come and enjoy!   Raffle tickets for a Glock 9 MM pistol will be sold for $5 each or 5 for $20. Donations and ticket sales will be used for No-Monument advertising.  

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.

n  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

n  Interested in Old Blanding City Council minutes?   These go back to 1916! 

 Good News Bears

·       American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank at California Berkley, says Trump has the power to Revoke  Bears Ears.

·       Will Trump Relocate Federal Land agencies from DC to the West?

“[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)

·      New Zealand reinvents farming when old regulations are thrown out.

·       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.”

 

Bad News Bears

·       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.

·       KUTV Report on Steward’s Town Hall

·      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