~~ Bear Essentials ~ Dec. 1, 2017 ~~

Plan to attend Saturday’s (Dec. 2) “Thank you" Rally  County Court House Monticello 11 AM. 

We have much to celebrate! Plan to participate

 – Bring signs, Make noise, Talk to visitors & Media  

Even the Bears are Celebrating!

Monday:  Big Reveal at the State Capitol Noon

Live Stream: Hideout in Monticello

Ticket Availability is iffy, but lots of space outside.

Check Save the Bears Ears FB for updates

v Phase II: Exempt Utah from future Antiquities Act Atrocities (Free Range)

The Petroglyph: “Senator Hatch and Congressman Bishop should take this opportunity to pass a bill in congress that will make Utah exempt from the Antiquities Act just like Wyoming. That would prevent this from ever happening again.... Now is the time for our Utah Senator's and Congressman to support President Trumps actions and to protect Utah from the billion dollar a year environmental industry. Now that would be something to brag about.... Everyone should contact Hatch and Bishop and tell them to do Contact Senator Hatch:

v Express your appreciation and concerns:   Write or Call the President:

Write to Secretary Zinke: Dept. of the Interior  1849 C Street, N.W.  Wash. DC 20240 

v Recommendations on SJC voting Districts Submitted (San Juan Record)

Good News Bears

n  President Trump to Announce Resizing of BENM  Dec. 4 in SLC

n  Two Monuments in Utah to be Resized

n  Potential BLM Head Vows to Push for Local Involvement

n  Water for Food Production Must be Top Priority

n  Hunting Provides Economic Benefit and Land Conservation

n  San Juan County suing BLM for Road Closure

n  BLM and FBI Exposed in Bundy Case

  







Bad News Bears 
                  

n  Eco-Snobbery Reveals Contradictions and Choices based on Fallacies

n  Lies and Malfeasance in Bundy Trial

n  UN Uses Public-Private Partnership as Backdoor for Global Policies

n  Western leaders say NEPA a Costly Impediment to Energy Development

Other issues related to San Juan County

 “If the divisive and painful battles over monuments are to be ameliorated, the Antiquities Act must be reformed. But, there is something Utah can do in the meantime–given the self-inflicted paralysis plaguing our moribund Congress. Utah can exempt itself from the Antiquities Act, and future monument designations. And yes, it’s been done before; by Wyoming and Alaska.” Majorie Haun

“Western states and their citizens are not equal. Contrary to the intent of the framers of the Constitution, they are awed “into an undue obedience” to the federal government.”

Roosevelt’s 1906 Antiquities Act has been manipulated and misused by a long chain of presidents. It is time to change executive overreach, and implement legislation whereby such designations are required to have congressional approval.  Our duly elected officials must be included in those important decisions, which directly affect individual states and rural America.

                        “Impoverished western counties dominated by federally claimed land

                                        are exporting children and importing poverty.”

75.2% of Utah’s land is public. Only 24.8% is privately owned. 

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 http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/          

                                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

Obama bans use of traditional ammo on USFW lands

In its final attack on gun owners, the Obama administration moved to ban traditional lead ammo on federal grounds and waterways on its last full day in office.

The ban, which includes cheap bullets and common fishing tackle, can be repealed by the Trump administration and was immediately condemned as an attack on outdoors people and rural life.

“This directive is irresponsible and driven not out of sound science but unchecked politics,” said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

“The timing alone is suspect. This directive was published without dialogue with industry, sportsmen and conservationists. The next director should immediately rescind this, and instead create policy based upon scientific evidence of population impacts with regard to the use of traditional ammunition.”

Read full article in Free Range Report:

Idahoan Gives Advice on State's Rights in Land Management.

Those who support the Transfer of Public Lands should understand a few basic facts:

1. In order to be truly sovereign states, each state must manage the lands within their own boundaries. 
2. The transfer of these lands has already been promised to each state in their enabling act.
3. States have been shown, over and over again, to manage their public lands better than the federal government.
4. Those who live in and rely on the lands know best how to manage them.

In his recent article in the Post Register, Orson Johnson said it beautifully.

In his article, Johnson explains how anti-hunting sentiment could lead to anti-hunting laws on a federal level if lands remain under federal government control:

According to my research, about 5 percent to 6 percent of the U.S. hunting age population actually hunts wild game (compared to 16 percent in Idaho). Some 16 percent of the U.S. population is opposed to hunting. The rest are neither strongly for nor against hunting. In our increasingly urbanized society the percentage of hunters will likely continue to diminish and non-hunters and anti-hunters will likely increase.

A number of animal rights and anti-hunting organizations are more than willing to restrict or ban hunting altogether. They have a much better chance of accomplishing their goals on the federal level than on the state level. In some cases, hunting and other activities have already been restricted by the endangered species act, the clean water act or by federal agencies. The power of a very vocal minority, whether you agree with their agenda or not, has increasingly shown that it can sometimes impose its will on the majority. Anti-hunting laws have little chance of being enacted in a state like Idaho. But they could be imposed on the federal level. In that case the states would have little chance of overturning those regulations.

Johnson goes on to explain how the federal government could very likely succeed in enforcing such restrictions:

The most likely scenario is by fiat from one of the increasingly powerful federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Land Management, or the United States Forest Service. Federal courts also sometimes “enact” legislation from the bench. These forms of legislation continue to take decision making power away from state and local governments. This trend seems likely to continue.

Johnson is absolutely correct. More and more we see our Constitutional rights taken away as elected officials forget the checks and balances that were carefully crafted by our Founders. Those checks and balances are not only between the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of government, but even more importantly, between the federal government, whose powers are intended to be "few and defined", and the states, whose powers encompass everything not explicitly given to the federal government by the people. 

We will give the final word to Mr. Johnson, who understands that, though states are prepared to financially manage their own lands, there is far more than economics to consider when it comes to who should be managing the lands within your state.

It has been said with some justification that the states do not have the resources to manage the huge acreages that the federal government owns in most of the western states. But with our staggering and rapidly growing federal debt, it may not be long before the federal government will no longer have the resources to manage these lands either. In any case, even inadequate management by the state may eventually be preferable to the restrictions of an increasingly powerful and autocratic federal government.

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Johnson was raised in Idaho Falls. He is a fourth generation Idahoan.