~~ Bear Essentials ~January 17, 2018 ~~

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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 http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/          

                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

~~ Bear Essentials ~January 10, 2018 ~~

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

   Bad News Bears

n  Laws Suits Challenge Pres. Trump resizing of National Monument

n  Lobbists and Politicians using Tribal Monies to “Fertilize the Swamp”

n  Chapoose says Fight for Redesignation is still on  NPR

n  Garon Coriz plays the Sympathy card

n  Supreme Court Rejects Rinehart Mining Case

n  Collusion between anti-mining activists and USFS

n  Native Americans used as Window Dressing   Garon Coriz  (Read Paul Jones, the lone defender of the Constitution, in the comments)

n  Native Radicals fail to obey USFS regulations at Nizhoni Campground

n  Riparian Areas in Calif. Damaged by Unmanaged Wild Horses

Drought Conditions in San Juan; please pray for snow!

                   

           Other Articles/ Events of Local Interest

v U of U Workshop on Environmental Racism Jan. 17

v Canyon Zephyr: Concerns related to State Control of Public Lands

v The Night Before Taxmas by Paul Ryan (Dec. 12 -Pretty Clever!)

v Animal Rights Jihadists Attack WesternTraditions

v Winter Solstice and Dancing Bears in Bluff

v Nat’l Geographic Explains Myths related to UNESCO Heritage Sites

v Help Free the Hammonds

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 http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/          

                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

Fie on groups Using and Abusing federal $ to Suck the Life out of Rural Communities

Letter to: National Parks Service 12/ 20/ 2017 

National Parks and Monuments have been the victims of poor management, and inadequate budget allocation for decades. Far too much of the DOI funding has been spent on EPA speculation, research, and over spending, on both the state and federal levels. Funds that should have been used to actually maintain existing park "environment" have instead been wasted on frivolous studies and lawsuits, involving sage grouse, turtles, birds, etc. It's time that the DOI takes back its role in managing actual land, water, its resources, and possibilities for multiple use. If wisely utilized the land, timber, and minerals could actually generate money. 

Public lands and those who use them, should generate part of this financial backlog; however, a bigger question is, how much has been spent paying lawyers who make life miserable for Western states and counties? The curse of litigation provides little benefit to real people who live in the West, nor the land they live by. It only spends more and more government money, while maintenance of parks and facilities degenerate more each year. Fie on the so called green friendly groups and their grants and lawsuits, who use and abuse federal money to suck the life out of rural communities and surrounding public lands
Hopefully, you can rectify this mire of neglect, and the excess of litigation.
   Janet Wilcox