December 27, 2016 Utah Republicans plan to counteract possible Obama move on Bears Ears Worried that Obama will aggressively act on his way out the door, opponents like Lee are now gearing up for a protracted fight to…
December 24, 2016 Big recreation industry joins enviros and Obama to wage war on rural West The seizure of 1.9 million acres is a tricky proposition, and the mostly-white, wealthy environmentalists and big rec corporate heads pushing for a monument in the Bears Ears region needed…
December 23, 2016 Obama poised to sacrifice Utah’s Native peoples to appease enviros, recreation industry Over eight decades later, Jones still remembers the day the federal government killed the sheep. In 1934, as part of former President Franklin Delano…
December 22, 2016 State and local leaders push back against federal Bears Ears land grab The most prominent Navajo opposed to the monument, Benally opened and closed Lee’s gathering in the Capitol’s elegant Gold Room. She called on environmental…
December 20, 2016 Bears Ears: Locals, Natives against, outsiders, corporate environmentalists for Lee and other members of the congressional delegation said the political fallout of a designation in Utah will result in the repeal of the…
December 14, 2016 A failing legacy: Obama’s Bears Ears monument proposal gets D’s in every category Since Obama took office in 2008, he has set aside more than 550 million acres in two dozen monuments — the most of any…
December 13, 2016 Will Obama impose ‘imperial’ designation on Bears Ears? But there are also some honest disagreements about how exactly the land should be protected. Most Native Americans who live around Bears Ears and use the…
December 6, 2016 Podesta PEW pen-pal goes whole hog with monuments push The WikiLeaks expose’ of his plea to Podesta makes it clear that influence at the highest levels of government and power over policy-making, not…
December 2, 2016 National monuments should not be one-man shows, must include local input Pearce points out “the Antiquities Act requires that a president designate the smallest possible footprint in order to achieve the desired environmental preservation” and…
November 30, 2016 Colorado students supporting federal Bears Ears takeover vandalize antiquities Davis said the students responsible have been identified, but instead of punishment, the school has chosen to use the incident as a learning experience,…
