Zinke, Trump, Hatch and Bears Ears
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Looks like the Presidunce will be doing Hatch's bidding and Zinke will TRY to reduce the Bears Ears National Monument.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/12/532605964/trump-admini...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/us/interior-secretary-public-lands-ut...
http://www.sltrib.com/news/5393496-155/zinke-recommends-diminishing-size...
The public comments were overwhelmingly in favor of the monument so you can expect a strong effort to overcome that showing during the extended comment period.
They gave 15 days and were swamped with comments favoring the monument.
The comment period has now been extended. If you or someone you know hasn't chimed in and wants to, feel free to let 'em know.
You can comment and/or read about it here. https://suwa.org/zinke-vows-eviscerate-bears-ears/
Funny, Zinke's touting co-mangement of the monument with the native tribes. That was the agreement all along.
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https://suwa.org/suwa
https://suwa.org/suwa-statement-secretary-zinkes-interim-report-bears-ea...
Some thoughts from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance on Zinke and company.
Also, it looks like we can comment again if we choose.
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Slick, thanks for keeping us
Slick, thanks for keeping us updated on this vitally important issue!
I urge other Zoners to respond using the info Slick has given in his original post above.
today I received an email on this topic from the Environment California state office, and I sent in more comments using their system... here's their email FYI:
Gary,
On Monday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced his initial recommendation on Bears Ears National Monument -- the first of 27 national monuments to be reviewed -- and the news was not good.
Secretary Zinke recommended shrinking the borders of Bears Ears' monument, meaning thousands of acres of land could be stripped of protection and opened up to mining, drilling or other development.1
Now, we have until July 10 to convince this administration that Bears Ears and all our national monuments deserve our protection -- and already, people around the country have submitted 1 MILLION public comments calling on them to do the right thing.
We're redoubling our efforts to submit 500,000 more comments in support of ALL our land and marine monuments. Gary, will you stand with us?
Help us flood the Interior Department with more than 1.5 million comments to save our national monuments.
Some of our country's most beautiful and culturally significant places are protected as national monuments, from the towering forests of California's Giant Sequoia to the coral reefs of Papahanaumokuakea in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
For most Americans, the idea that we've found some places so special, sacred even, that we've declared them off-limits to development is one of our proudest achievements.
But the president's ordered "review" of 27 land and marine monuments could result in the destruction and degradation of our public lands and waters.2 This isn't my vision of a great country, and I can't imagine it's yours, either.
It's more urgent than ever to tell the Interior Department just how much we value our national monuments. We need to overwhelm them with millions of reasons to keep our special public lands in public hands and protected from drilling, mining and other destructive development.
Will you add your name today in support of all our national monuments?
Thanks, as always, for everything you do.
Dan Jacobson
Environment California State Director
3435 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 385, Los Angeles, CA 90010 , (213) 251-3688
1. Brian Maffly and Thomas Burr, Zinke recommends diminishing size of Bears Ears but says area 'merits some degree of protection', The Salt Lake Tribune, June 12, 2017.
2. Valerie Volcovici, Trump orders review of national monuments to allow development, Reuters, April 26, 2017.
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The only Hatch for me in the
The only Hatch for me in the Southwest that belongs is located in New Mexico. And they have some outstanding chilies.
Oh,I guess the hatch from Lost is OK too...4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42....
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GaryFish, thanks so much for
GaryFish, thanks so much for your interest and support. Please check your e-mail.
They're looking at the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument Clinton proclaimed 20 years ago to go after the coal in it.
Here's the site for Utah Diné Bikéyah http://utahdinebikeyah.org/ And SUWA's website www.suwa.org
Please throw some comments in folks. Protect YOUR lands. Thank you.
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Article in today's SL Tribune
Article in today's SL Tribune shows how the oil boys are poised to pounce.
http://www.sltrib.com/home/5351997-155/if-bears-ears-monument-gets-small...
Pretty sure this thing will be headed to the courts no matter how it goes.
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Huff Po did a story on
Huff Po did a story on Patagonia and their fierce efforts on this issue. May sue the Pres. Thanks Patagonia!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patagonia-public-lands_us_59440a8ee4...
Of course, after they told Utah politicians to go f**k themselves and that they were helping take the twice a year multi-million dollar Outdoor Retailers Show away in response to the politicians positions on public lands, I decided to say thanks. They put their money where their mouth was. It will cost Utah dearly.
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Its good to see those dad
Its good to see those dad jeans standing in solidarity with Patagonia.
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Thanks for keeping up the
Thanks for keeping up the fight. slick.
SUWA rocks, I need to send them money again, I have sent them money for 3 decades.
But the fight against the rapers and scrapers is endless, I get tired. Young people need to wake up and start defending wilderness, instead of asking for free shit from uncle Bernie.
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Not going to say I was
Not going to say I was surprised by the chump appointed admins decision on last years monument designations, but it sure continues to be disheartening that people of such backward thinking have been voted into power.
Keep doing good things, Slick. It's needed out there.
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Thanks. There's lots of folks
Thanks. There's lots of folks doing the work. Now if I could just wear the right pants to keep people happy. That's VERY important you know.
A reminder the deadline for comments has been extended to July 10th.
Celebrate this great country and our beautiful public lands on July 4th by writing to Zinke! Host a letter writing party / Bar-B-Que!
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Just a reminder.
Just a reminder.
While I've focused on Bears Ears for a variety of reasons, including the brief 15 day window for comments (which has now been extended), there may be some monuments closer to your own locale that are under review.
Here's the list from the Interior Department along with the year established:
Basin and Range National Monument, Nevada, 2015.
Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, 2016.
Berryessa Snow Mountain, California, 2015.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado, 2000
Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, 2001.
Cascade Siskiyou, Oregon, established 2000, expanded 2017.
Craters of the Moon, Idaho, established 1924, expanded 2000
Giant Sequoia National Monument, California, 2000.
Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada, 2016.
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Arizona, 2000.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, 1996. (Established by President Clinton to help stop a coal mine by a Dutch company who wanted to sell to Japan and China.)
Hanford Reach National Monument, Washington, 2000.
Ironwood Forest National Monument, Arizona, 2000.
Katahdin Wood and Waters, Maine, 2016
Mojave Trails National Monument, California, 2016.
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, New Mexico, 2014.
Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico, 2013
Sand to Snow National Monument, California, 2016.
San Gabriel Mountains, California, 2014
Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona, 2001.
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, Montana, 2001.
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, 2000.
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MARINE MONUMENTS
Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific Ocean, 2009.
Northeast Canyons & Seamounts Marine National Monument, off the coast of New England, 2016.
Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, Pacific Ocean, established 2009, expanded 2014.
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Pacific Ocean, established 2006, expanded 2016.
Rose Atoll Marine National Monument, Pacific Ocean, 2009.
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public comment period is
public comment period is still open, until July 10
please, take a few moments and submit a very brief comment in support of preserving our wild lands which are under assault by Trump & Co.
https://suwa.org/zinke-vows-eviscerate-bears-ears/
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Thanks for the bump GaryFish.
Thanks for the bump GaryFish.
Did you see the latest? Our whacked out state rep from Kanab said this about the large fire we got going in southern Utah, started by a man with a weed burning torch.
He was pushed by Utah politicians as a possible choice for head of the BLM.
From today's Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/news/5445768-155/noel-other-s-utah-politicians-bla...
Southern Utah politicians on Monday blamed the Brian Head Fire's fast pace and destructiveness on environmentalists who, they said, for decades have thwarted logging of trees killed by bark beetles.
But the targeted groups contend climate change and excluding fire from the landscape are the real reasons Utah's national forest are primed for blazes.
Without citing a source, Rep. Mike Noel angrily alleged environmentalists would rather see the Dixie National Forest burn than see a single stump.
"When we turned the Forest Service over to the bird and bunny lovers and the tree-huggers and the rock-lickers, we turned our history over," the Kanab Republican said at a news conference in Brian Head.
"We're going to lose our watershed and we're going to lose our soils and we're going to lose our wildlife and were going to lose our scenery — the very things you people wanted to protect," Noel added. "It's just plain stupidity."
He called out the inactive Friends of Dixie National Forest, which once fought timber harvests, as well as the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) and the Grand Canyon Trust — two prominent organizations that do not litigate timber harvests.
Editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley's cartoon for tomorrow:
And now Trump and Co. want to sell oil leases by a monument: http://www.sltrib.com/news/5445173-155/trumps-blm-plans-oil-and-gas
Sure could use some help saving our public lands from these idiots.
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We should be mining Asteroids
We should be mining Asteroids not the Earth