Sunday, November 4, 2018

~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: Nov. 4, 2018~~ Last edition

I've been publishing this newsletter for 28 months and constraints on my time are such that this will be the last issue.  I can't keep going to bed at 2 AM!! The Beyond Bears Ears Blog will remain up and I will add links to current articles worth reading. There are also hundreds of links on the site if you need to reference anything from the past several years.  Otherwise, just go to Save the Bears Ears on Facebook.  Current needs and discussion will be there.  Thank you for your support during this long battle, which unfortunately isn't over.  Thank you for caring enough to stay informed and active in public lands issues.  Janet
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    ~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: Nov. 4, 2018
Happenings in the West


~~Rural Business Summit for SE Utah in Price Nov. 9:
San Juan County Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Freelancers, Students, and Community Leaders:
Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox will be the Keynote Speaker followed by interactive training sessions and business breakouts. Take advantage of the networking opportunities and browse our business exhibit booths. Enjoy a catered lunch along with a presentation by Derek Miller of the Salt Lake Chamber. Gain insights and best practices in rural employment as you listen to our business resource panel. And hear from our closing Keynote Speaker Vale Hale, Executive Director at Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development. Those concerned about growth, economy, and the future should attend.
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n  Marsha Holland: Backed by Green Out-of-State Money
The majority of Holland’s contributions are from the Salt Lake Valley, which is generally more liberal than southern Utah. And interestingly, her donations are also from supporters in Chevy Chase, Maryland, San Francisco and Berkeley, California, Boulder and  Durango, Colorado, Chicago, Illinois, and locations in states including Arizona New Jersey, Connecticut, Alabama, Ohio and Oregon.”
With these out-of-district, out-of-state contributions, Holland’s campaign has outraised Republican favorite, Phil Lyman, by at least a multiple of 4. By contrast, Lyman, a southeastern Utah native and Commissioner in San Juan County, has received contributions exclusively from within the state, from individuals in his hometown of Blanding, as well as a handful of conservative political interests in Salt Lake City.”

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Documenting Bears Ears Controversy and Public Land Issues since July 2016

Friday, October 19, 2018

~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: Oct. 20, 2018~~



Matt Redd Monticello rancher, photo by Aaron Huey
November 2018 issue of National Geographic
~~Bears Ears: Lead story in November National Geographic: Battle for the American West
Though dozens of local people were interviewed over the course of several weeks by author Hannah Nordhaus, very little was used in the actual article from those interviews.  The editing staff at Nat’l Geo was part of that dilemma, and the real story was bigger than a single article could cover. Maps and photographs were great.  Sandy Johnson was one of several ranchers who were interviewed. (Photos were by Aaron Huey who made at least 4 or more trips to San Juan)


 

Energy Fuels White Mesa Uranium Mill--Aaron Huey photo
Kyle Kimmele, one of many SE Utah citizens who own mining leases.  Photo by Aaron Huey
“One of many comments made by businesses impacted by foreign suppliers of uranium: “The US uranium industry has suffered great harm and our national security is threatened as a result of excessive imports of foreign uranium. The United States over reliance on price insensitive uranium from countries like Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with their state-owned and funded companies, has displaced US production and led to a severe decline in the industry. As a service provider to the US uranium industry, this has also hurt our business.”

~~Write-In Candidates for County Commissioner—Districts 2 and 3                                                          
                                                      
1)     Republican Al Clark running as Write-in against Kenneth Maryboy District 3



2) Democrat Maryleen Tahy running as write-in District 2 

 Audio of  Debate with Marsha Holland.
 “Public lands management is an area that we certainly do not agree on. I prefer local management of local resources and I rely on constitutional provisions that guarantee that even a state like Utah has an equal footing with other states. Federal agencies are creating massive problems to which they claim to be the solution. It is time for Utah to end the madness. We are not a federal administrative unit, but a sovereign and independent State; sometimes we have to act like it. 
I have never been accused of being neutral on matters of public land, fiscal responsibility, or political accountability. The State Legislature has the duty to safeguard these qualities and to safeguard the liberty of the people against federal encroachment, not the reverse for which Ms. Holland seems to advocate.
“Any legislation that I am involved in is going to emphasize less government interference with people’s lives and more accountability from government agencies. If I could figure out legislation to rein in the federal agencies and put them in their proper jurisdictional role instead of this god-like role that they think they have, I would do that.”    Recapture Incident: “A mistake that I made was believing that the federal agencies had integrity and that the department of justice believed that a person was innocent until proven guilty. And that the U.S. attorneys followed that same ideology.
~~Kelly Laws Running for County Commissioner in District 3

Why Voters Should Not Support Tax Increases 

By Phil Lyman

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Be sure to vote: Mail in or at polling booths


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Friday, October 5, 2018

~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: Oct. 5, 2018~



Life in the West

·       Get Informed about Propositions you’ll be Voting on – Before your Ballot Comes!
·       Selling San Juan County Part II: The Gentrification of the New West: a la Moab, Durango, Jackson Hole
~Lynn Jackson, former Grand County Councilman: “It’s all rather confusing to me. San Juan doesn’t want to become another Moab, yet they are following the exact blueprint that got Moab on its path to progressive nirvana. Welcoming and supporting outdoor environmental education programs and investments, providing support for building mountain bike trails, hiring an economic development coordinator with deep ties to the megalithic outdoor recreation industry, and creating a tourism slogan that’s over the top, in this case ridiculously over the top. “Make it Monumental” is just hard to figure, sending the message you’re all good with monuments down there, in light of what’s gone in the last 18 months? San Juan, looks like you’re well on your way, following the recipe exactly.“

~In discussing Springdale, Utah and Nat’l Parks: “Yale professor James Scott argues that ancient cities were walled not just to keep invaders out, but to keep the slaves whose labor the elites depended upon in.  The modern city has improved upon the ancient model by replacing physical walls with nifty technologies like exclusionary zoning, subsistence wages and commuting.  This framework guarantees the provision of all the poorly compensated labor necessary to sustain a bourgeois utopia with virtually none of the pesky visual evidence of actual poverty or hassles of chattel slavery.  Win-win.”  

~Stacy Young: “Both Blanding and Monticello have had about the same population since 1980, and the relationship between incomes and the cost of living in both towns is rational and predictable.  In fact, the average household in each of these towns earns significantly more than their counterparts in the more trendy towns (Moab)  of the region, and this remains the case despite the sagging fortunes of extractive industries in the county over the past 30 years.  Of course, this relative wealth advantage is further boosted, by a lot, when it is adjusted for the disparity in the cost of living between, say, Monticello and Moab. The disinvestment and depopulation crisis that defines much of rural America does not really describe conditions in San Juan County.”
 
n  Tired of contention and strife: Follow San Juan Connections, and  share your own connection story
At Neldon Cochran's funeral and viewing, October 7, 2017, I visited with Jodi Laws Cochran. As an Air Force pilot, her husband Jerry has been assigned all over world, yet everywhere they went they met people with Blanding connections. She suggested I collect stories with that theme. I thought it was a great idea, and with everyone's help, it is becoming a reality. This blog is dedicated to Jodi and Jerry Cochran, the impetus for making it happen. Enjoy.  Please share additional “connections.”

~~ It was arranged for the USC students to be featured on the PBS News Hour. Their task was to fairly portray, to a national audience, the ongoing complex political and cultural clashes and controversies in San Juan County-- and do it in five minutes and forty-eight seconds.”   Such is the shallowness of television coverage dealing with controversy!  Stiles’ article provides links to the PBS slanted coverage. With due respect to the college team:  what they originally submitted was 11 minutes long, but  PBS kept hacking away!


The size and complicated logistics of Navajo Reservation polices and politics deserved to be included in the PBS video, as well as how and why they consider themselves a sovereign nation and how that impacts county government in four states                                                                                       

“Conservation and Indian groups say the Antiquities Act doesn't allow Trump or any other president to revoke or shrink an existing monument.”
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