May 1, 2022 Bears Ears and the Babylon Allotment: Co-management or co-negligence? Unlike cattle and sheep ranchers who hold grazing permits which they must diligently maintain and improve, and vigorously defend when the time comes to…
February 8, 2020 Bears Ears National Monument: Myths vs. Facts FACT: The BLM does not allow oil and gas leasing within BENM. The monument is withdrawn from disposition under all laws relating to mineral…
January 23, 2019 Draft resolutions reveal San Juan commissioners seek to undo will of the people regarding Bears Ears The Navajo Nation and associated left-wing activist groups won this battle in 2017, essentially giving the Navajo Nation majority control over the county, despite…
December 10, 2017 Bears Ears is no more, but access in many areas still in question The heavy restriction that prohibit motorized use as well as other uses in Wilderness Study Areas is still in place. The limited restrictions of a…
December 6, 2017 Environmentalists polluting Bears Ears discussion with false narratives While environmentalists like SUWA board member Terry Tempest Williams insist that monument opposition is a “Big Oil” conspiracy, the facts indicate otherwise. While energy…
December 4, 2017 San Juan County locals praise Trump’s Bears Ears decision “Ralph Waldo Emerson said, ‘God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.’ We need fighters. There’s a time and a place for…
October 28, 2017 Local voices trump outside special interests in battle over Bears Ears “We believe in the importance of protecting these sacred antiquities, but Secretary Zinke and the Trump administration rolled up their sleeves to dig in,…
September 24, 2017 Navajo Nation resources should not be wasted on frivolous Bears Ears lawsuit Forty-three percent of Navajos exist below the federal poverty line of $24,250 for a family of four. With numbers like those, who can afford…
September 22, 2017 Is Forest Service shutting public out of its plans to ‘obliterate’ roads in Bears Ears Monument? Despite the strong likelihood that Bears Ears National Monument will be modified in coming months, Forest Service officials in southeastern Utah are planning to…
September 1, 2017 Will Congress take Zinke’s suggestion and authorize tribal co-management of Bears Ears? The original presidential proclamation creating the Bears Ears National Monument did not establish a formal tribal co-management requirement. There are several ways Congress and…