Beyond The Bears Ears

v Is this Bill a Compromise we can live with? HR4532

If NOT, then we need to speak up now.

v Email John Curtis https://curtis.house.gov/contact/email

v John Curtis video explaining HR4532 Bill

v Press Release from John Curtis concerning Monuments

“This bill also has a mineral withdrawal for the original 1.35-million-acre designation under President Obama. This bill is about protecting areas, not opening mining, or oil and gas, development.”

v Shash Jaa’ being promoted already—Life Elevated

v Or was it promoted in 2016?

n Public Lands Council Patch…challenges Patagonia Some humor!

n Drain the Swamp before Relocating Fed. Agencies

n BLM Requesting Input from SJC San Juan Record

n How to Refocus the Antiquities Act Washington Examiner

n Smaller Monuments Equals Better Access for Disabled

n New BLM Management Plan for Bears Ears? KSL

n Recapture Canyon, the back story and beyond

n Better Representation for Utah Navajos Alfred Ben

n Congress Criticizes BLM Actions: Bundy & Steinle Cases

“On January 10, Rob Bishop and Bruce Westerman of the House Natural Resources Committee wrote a letter to the Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Brian Steed, citing flagrant ethical and legal violations by agents involved in a number of high profile and deadly incidents.”

n This Week’s San Juan Record via video summary by Bill Boyle

n Curtis, Bishop Bill Does No Good for San Juan County Phil Lyman

” The first paragraph of the bill, the first action, is to withdraw all of the original 1.35 million acres of land designated under the Obama Bears Monument from any future mineral extraction. This was done for one purpose and one purpose only, to appease the environmentalists.”

n Militarization of BLM

n Tribal Commission grumbling about Curtis Bill

n Shash Jaa’ Commission Fights to protect “their” land Trailer

Drought Conditions in San Juan; please continue to pray for snow!

Other Articles/ Events of Local Interest

v Help Free the Hammonds

v Flashback Video from 2015 of BLM Burning Hammond rangeland

v Suggestion for Controlling Congestion at Arches Nat’l Park

v Help Support Free Range Report – Truth in the West

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Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

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vJohn Ruple Univ. of Utah Professor of Law, discusses Public Lands

v Is it time for Tax Payers to Stop Subsidizing Public Land’s Recreation?

v Christmas message from President Trump

Good News Bears

n Congressional Hearings on H.R. 4532: SJC Nat’l Monuments Jan 9, 2018

n From Agriculture to Zinke: Biggest Stories of 2017

n Is Fighting Climate Change Worth Sacrificing Modern Civilization?

As the Washington Post wrote last week, “The world is turning more and more to renewable sources of energy… to fight climate change. But what if climate change itself alters the distribution of wind, or sunlight… or river flows, and so changes or even shrinks the potential of these energy sources?” No source of energy is without problems, so what are we to do?

n Protecting wilderness through tourism, an oxymoron Moab Sun Times

n Judge Dismisses Case Against the Bundy Family members !!!

n Oregon Live Details Bundy Case Dismissal

“U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the case last month, saying federal prosecutors willfully withheld evidence that lawyers for the Bundys and alleged co-conspirator Ryan Payne should have had access to while mounting their defense.

She said the attorneys were in violation of the Brady rule, which requires prosecutors to disclose evidence that could be favorable to a defendant, and told them it wasn’t possible to proceed with the case.

On Monday, she dismissed the case “with prejudice,” meaning the government cannot retry the defendants. “The court finds that the universal sense of justice has been violated,” Navarro said.

n Bill Boyle Confronts False Claim of Durango Writer Durango Herald

“A frustrating reality of life in San Juan County is we are subject to gross mischaracterizations and, all too often, outright fabrications. I am afraid that Wells’ letter may play well in areas where the lack of knowledge of basic facts makes it easy to manipulate public opinion.”

n The Best Memes of 2017

n Feds Urge Court to Dismiss Climate Lawsuit Using Children as Pawns

n Anti-Fracking Groups in Trouble with the Courts

n Using Bacteria to Clean up Oil Spills and Cheat Grass

n Compliance Extension for Livestock Haulers until March