~~ 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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