~~ Bear Essentials ~ June 10, 2017 ~~

Sowing Clover: by Tonya Stiles

The Intolerable Intolerance of the Internet Leftists

“More than ever, our lives are lived online. You’re as likely to see your next-door neighbor on Facebook as you are in your front yard. So we have to speak to each other online the same way we would speak over the fence—with humor, humility and empathy. Surveying the broad swath of political grandstanding I’ve witnessed over the past few election cycles, I notice that lack of empathy more than any other failing.”  Tonya Stiles

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Other Issues Impacting San Juan County Utah

n  Though the Bears Ears Review is past, we can help Gold Butte, and other states fight similar battles. Write now up to July 10

n  What Utah’s Canyon Country can tell us about Trump’s  Monument Review – NPR  June 10

n  The New Wests Big Lie   by Jim Stiles

n  The War on Private Property, Part 4

n  New evidence shows Recapture Canyon Road was never under Federal Jurisdiction

n  Comparing Moab With Blanding; Interesting Facts and Stats

n  Letter Written by Cassy Moon  July 21, 2016.  Her facts are still true! We have greatly appreciated Cassy’s untiring efforts during this effort to Protect the Bears Ears and not let it turn into another Grand Staircase! She was the fire brand when we were first beginning.  She provided the facts, examples, and motivation which we all needed.  May God’s blessings shower down on you and your family in Richfield.  We know you’ll still help from afar! Tributes

Good News Bears

n  Participate in a Non-Rally, San Juan Rally

n  Trump’s Federal Budget Scales back Budget for EPA

n  County Commissioners Return to Wash DC for Bears Ears Confab

n  Editor Bill Boyle Interviewed on KSJC, Cortez Station 6/5/2017

n  Justice Department to End Bank Rolling of Liberal Lawsuits

n  How Trump Can Transform the Antiquities Act

n  Utah Wildlife Expert picked to head US Fish and Game:  KSL

n  Ask Zinke to Remedy Clinton’s Immoral GSENM Land Grab

n  Past is Prologue:  Revisiting the Sagebrush Rebellion  via Shake Rattle and Troll. 

n  Stay Informed about Utah Politics

n  Controversy Arises over DOI Deputy Director Colo. Appointment

n   Don McDowell’s new Radio Platform in AZ goes National  June 11 Downloadable link, or live feed from web site.

n  Lest we Forget!  Listen to the stand our elected officials took and still support.  Very powerful

                                                                               

 

Bad News Bears

n  The Locust Effect Comes to Durango, Colorado

n  Teddy Roosevelt IV Addresses Bears Ears issue

n  Montana Counties impacted by Bad Federal Forest Management

n  Wallace Global Fund donates to Sioux Tribe to “Reward” fight against Pipeline

n  Real Utahns support Bears Ears Monument? OP-Ed by Angelo Baca

n  “Heal Utah” Leader Teaching Kids to Hate Trump

n  Radical “sue and settle” Enviros get richer, Country gets poorer

n  Nevada Legislature looked at tearing down Lake Powell

n  Colorado Counties sue DOI over Sage Grouse Plan     

n  The Ultimate Goal of Greedy Enviromentalists?  Connected Landscapes

o   Strategies for Stopping Mineral Development

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                                     Documenting Bears Ears “ No Monument” efforts since July 2016

Upcoming Event:  Wetherill descendent to speak at Mesa Verde June 16

Digging Deeper: Sustainable Development -- what does it mean?

Response to Theodore Roosevelt IV OP-ed in SL Tribune

Original article

Don't you just love how do-gooders know all the answers to rural America's problems!? I will respond to just one paragraph as I throw water on Mr. Roosevelt's Parade. Mr. Roosevelt said: "Tourism has been touted as the economic hope for the region. Right now, there are basically no amenities: no hotels, restaurants, signage, visitor centers. Low cost loans and funding need to be secured so that these communities can make necessary business and infrastructure investments and improve their lives accordingly."

#1 The only ones touting tourism as the "hope" for the region are environmental "pack and plays", who are grasping at straws, to convince Utahans that monuments are best for the state and for San Juan County. #2 There are motels, there are restaurants, there is signage, and Visitor Centers in both Blanding and Monticello. There are low cost loans, and funding available. What is missing is a desire to sell out to a philosophy that has ulterior motives.

What Mr. Do-Gooder fails to realize there is ALSO limited WATER in his high desert plateau. There are only so many "showers" for tourists nor is there lots of water for new housing/motel development in this area. Water is a gift from God and from the mountain, and some years we have it, and some years we don't. Thanks to wise stewardship of city councilmen in both Blanding and Monticello the past 80 years, we have used low interest loans to build reservoirs to hedge up against the years when there is not sufficient water, but that those resources do not allow for tens of thousands of new bodies, requiring pampering and cleanliness. This is situation not the result of climate change, but is based on historical evidence from hundreds of years of survival in this arid area.

Tourists who are not used to "roughing it", will likely find Bears Ears NM more wilderness than they bargained for. The real intent of this "green" imposed makeover of San Juan County and other western towns, seems to be destroying the foundations and history of local economies. The trade off for capitulation, is to offer a "mess of pottage" called tourism. This only gives away our sacred land connection and the birthright of thousands of Hispanic, Native, and Anglo residents who call San Juan County home. We only have to look 75 miles to the north and see Mr. Roosevelt's vision of what Tourism does to towns, i.e. Moab's Mob Mecca. We would counter that facts in the following research show that San Juan County is well ahead of Moab in many positive ways that we aren't willing to give up. Hyped up hyperbole and capitation is a lose-lose proposition for San Juan County Utah.
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~~ Bear Essentials ~ June 4, 2017 ~~

“If only a small percentage of the dollars needed to create the Bears Ears Allotment were added to the local budgets for the local offices of the BLM and USFS that would provide adequate  ”boots” on the ground to protect the public lands encompassed within the boundaries of these agencies. . . The monument area is literally a magnificent garden, there is a saying that if you don’t continue to weed your garden then you soon find you have lost your garden. Please leave the area under a multiple use strategy so that the BLM and USFS, Term Grazing Permit holders, and others will still have the tools and management practices to maintain these natural resources. We again ask that you rescind this monument.”   Jimmie and Carol Forrest Monticello

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Other Issues Affecting Bears Ears

n  Antiquities Review:  Top Five Reasons We Were Outnumbered

n  Pay attention to Utah Political Climate.  Who will replace Jason Chaffetz?

n  Biased Surveys Predetermine Outcome   by Devin B. Hancock  Results

n  Smoking them Out: Theft of the Environment and how to Take it back by Greg Walcher

Zinke Appauds Trump's Withdrawal from “America Last” Paris Climate Pact.

. . ."America's energy and economic destiny should be up to the United States, not the United Nations. Today the President took bold and decisive action to pull the U.S. out of the poorly-negotiated Paris Accord that would kill American jobs and manufacturing while doing little to protect the environment.  

"We all agree that clean air and clean water are top priorities, but this deal was an example of another give-away to foreign interests and locks America into a permanent competitive disadvantage. America has the resources and expertise to lead the world in responsible energy development and technology. To not use our resources to our advantage is simply wrong. The world is safer when America is strong.” Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke

n  Why liberals aren’t as tolerant as they think

                                                                                         

                                                              

Good News Bears

n  Former Forest Service Employee Warns of Monument Dangers

n  10 Circuit Court says BLM Must Redo OHV Routes on 6 Million acres

n  New Ag. Secretary Promises Balance in Forest Service Management

n  Are American Hunters the Last Great Hope for Conservation? Zooms in on Secretary Zinke.

n  Water battle pits City of Aspen against feds, enviros.” By Greg Walcher

n  Forestry 101: Log it, thin it, or watch it burn Idaho Statesman

n  Idaho BLM tries Balanced Approach to Grazing has Enviros shaking

n  Remembering the Blanding Rally  Not sure if I ever linked Marjorie’s recap

n  Great photos in this article: Paddle and Pedal the Bears Ears Monument

                                                                                           

  

Bad News Bears

n  Maffly claims Facts on Monument Acreages are Misleading

n  Entanglements between DOI agencies and Agenda driven Enviromentalists deepen the swamp  Part I Marjorie Haun

n  Back Country CEO Defends Bears Ears NM

n  Torrey, Utah asks for State Help on Water but doesn’t support drilling. Great quotes from Mike Noel in this article. 

n  SUP Magazine Supports Bears Ears NM

n  New Mexico AG’s Office Takes on unfair Cattle Industry Harming Family Ranches

n  Science Magazine worried about Dinosaurs in NM

n  Environmentalist Messaging Concerning BLM Flaring Rule is Mythology

n  Environmental Bias in Oregon has Ranchers Wary

n  10 Planks of American Socialism  Watching it happen in our life time.

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