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Free
Range Journalist Lassoed by Mustang Joe
Congratulations
to Joel and Majorie on their wedding, and new life in La Sal as bonified San
Juan County residents! Majorie is looking for a writing/or teaching job. If you have any leads let her know. marjoriehaun@yahoo.com
“. . .Thousands of CNN viewers came away thinking there were
virtually no health care facilities on the reservation portion of San Juan
County. That kind of disregard by CNN for the facts, by deliberately
editing them out of the narrative, could be construed as its own form of bias
and discrimination against the one Native American (Eva Ewald) in the van that
had the facts right.”
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| Blanding Mayor talking politics with Jim Stiles |
Information for Ranchers: Here is a list of challenges that ranchers face when trying to
graze on lands within national monuments. Not surprisingly these challenges
have led to dramatic reductions in grazing:
1.
--You
can’t use materials on the monument – this means you can’t cut cedar posts to
repair fences from land nearby. -- must transport all materials from range
improvements to your allotment, which leads to …
2.
--You
can’t use mechanized equipment or motorized vehicles to fix water lines or
fences. Even if you could…
3.
Infrastructure
and roads are not maintained. --The gravel pits inside the monument were no
longer available, and the Monument has never had workforce out maintaining
roads.
4.
Land
managers will use rules and regulations to try to squeeze out private
landowners to acquire inholdings left in the monument.
5.
--You
will likely be required to fence off riparian areas.
6.
--You
will have to fight for your water rights.
7.
--You
will have to fight to make any range improvements or to build facilities like
bigger holding pens.
8.
Note from Site Manager: “If you don’t engage in this process, you can be assured
that those who don’t want you grazing these lands will be there every step of
the way fighting against you. We’re here to help fight for you.” Benjamin Burr
@ Rangeland
Strategies.com
“Grayeyes lists an
address on Piute Mesa near Navajo Mountain as his residence. He was born at the
location and has argued that his umbilical cord, buried soon after his birth,
establishes his residency according to Navajo tradition.”
“In Moab when construction began on the multi-million dollar “elevated
bikeway” in 2013, I contacted the BLM to ask about environmental assessments
and efforts to involve the public in the process. The BLM’s Katie Stevens
informed me that there had indeed been an EA and a public comment period—in
2004—more than eight years earlier, and that no one commented. No one.
THAT’s how projects like this succeed. Apathy.”
. . .” Many issues in this county deserve serious
scrutiny and analysis and discussion by the local media. All I did was to
provide hard facts that very few people were previously aware of. Like I said
in my reply to Mr Haven in 2014, “What the citizens of San Juan County do with
that information is entirely up to them.”
Jim Stiles
“The survey, conducted in eight
western states, explores bi-partisan opinions in each state and for the Rocky
Mountain West region concerning conservation, environment, energy, the role of
government, trade-offs with economies, and citizen priorities.”
Majorie Haun: "Conservation
in the West" survey is a propaganda tool to push an industrial recreation
agenda.”
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Documenting Bears Ears
Controversy and Public Land Issues since July
2016
