~~ Bear Essentials ~ Dec. 25, 2017 ~~

Did Santa Make it Past the Windmills?

Good News Bears

n  Testimony on Dirty Dealings  “In Federal Lands Committee Hearings last week, former Utah Governor, Mike Leavitt, recounted the ruthless and deceptive process by which President Bill Clinton created the 1.9 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in 1996. (See video in next link – very incriminating)

n  Video of Committee Hearing, Testimonies by Rob Bishop and Mike Leavitt

n  Rob Bishop Confronts Patagonia and False Narratives

n  Controversy and Confusion over Oil Exploration in BE area San Juan Record

n  Interview with Eva Ewald on Bears Ears, after it was Trumped KSJD, Cortez

n  Reducing Antiquities Act Land Grabs  A great article with good facts  “President Obama designated the 1,351,849-acre Bears Ears NM three weeks before leaving office, largely to make still more energy, mineral and other resources off limits to exploration and development. He too did so without prior consultation with Utah’s governor, congressional delegation or residents. Offshore marine national monuments now total 760 million acres – 7-1/2 times the size of California!”

n  How Ticaboo got pulled into the Uranium Russian scandal

n  First Hearing on Escalante National Monument

n  Can Compromise Replace Conflicts in Bears Ears Resizing? Janet Wilcox

n  DOI Reverses Job Killing Mining Restrictions in Minnesota

n  Looking for a Financial Fix for National Parks and Monuments Judy Fahys

 

Bad News Bears

n  Judge Shelby sets new voting districts, splitting Blanding 3 ways

n  Boston Globe says Pres. Trump Assaults Mother Nature

n  Did you know You were part of a “Dark Campaign” to destroy Nat’l Monuments?  Did any of you get any financial rewards, or $?  Me neither!

n  Oil and Gas Regulators Controlled by Trump Agenda?

n  Congressional debates on New National Park in Utah

n  Environmentalist says Bears Ears and GSENM have chance in Court

Many falsehoods in this video, be sure to go in and comment

n  Federal Land Grabs via NMs Can Starve America

n  Five Tribes file Law Suit over Resizing of Utah Monuments Video

n  Bend Oregon Group, Bent on Protecting Mammoth Monuments

v   Other Articles/ Events of Local Interest

v  Interactive Map showing National Monument Boundary Changes

v Future of Power Plant on the Navajo Reservation

v Remember when Bears Ears Territory was too Protected? Jim Stiles

v Burning of the Bears in Bluff Joe Pachek art for Winter Solstice

v U of U Workshop on Environmental Racism Jan. 17

                                                            

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                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

Layers of Land Protection Prior to Nat'l Monument Designation

 Layers of land protection in the West:

Some critics seem to feel that public land in San Juan County is now doomed to oblivion since President Trump's declaration to resize Bears Ears National Monument.  Before more National Monuments were even in the picture in San Juan County, there were over a dozen existing protections already in place.  These lands were, and are amply protected by law without another layer of ineffective legislation. However, you can enact all the laws and regulations you want, but without money (remember the US is 20 Trillion dollars in debt) and man power to supervise, you're just shaking a wet noodle at the thousands of uneducated tourists who have been attracted to SE Utah because of all the publicity.  

1.     1906 Antiquities act,

2.     1935 Historic Sites Preservation Act,

3.     1960/1974 Reservoir Act,

4.     1964 Wilderness Act

5.     1966 National History Preservation Act

6.     1968 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

7.     1969 National Environmental Protection Act

8.     1974 Archeological; Historic Preservation Act,

9.     1976 Federal Lands Policy and Management Act,

10. 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act,

11. 1979 Archeological Resources Protection Act,

12. 1980 Amendment NHBA - Exec. Order Protection & Enhancement of Cultural Environment,

13. 1990 Native American Graves Protection; Repatriation Act,

14. 1996 Indian Sacred Site Protection Act,

15. 2000 Consultation; Coordination with Indian Tribal Government Act
16. 2003 Preserve America Act