Bears Ears Public Comment Period

Done and personalized. Thank you!

Pete Spri wrote:

Here is the actual area.  If you read the tips, it basically says that an original comment is worth 1000 pre-made form letters.  

It's easy to write your own folks, go do it now.  Tell them what you want from public lands [I told them they should buy more land if they want to use land to harvest/etc!]:

https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001

Done! Thanks for posting this.

My comment:

Secretary Zinke,

Please do not rescind or reduce Bears Ears! I visit the area as a tourist, spending money in local towns and cities and I think the value of the area is far greater in economic terms when left as a tourist destination. I have met travelers from all over the world there. Their and my tourist dollars infused into the local economy and whose contribution will only increase with the increased protected area, are far greater an economic boost that stripping a finite land of its finite natural resources. Again, do not rescind or reduce Bears Ears!

Sincerely, Dan Snyder

Do it for Scarface!

Do it for Creek Pasture!

Do it for Davis Canyon!

Do it for a Bridger Jack moonrise!

Do it for extra karma for your unsent proj!

It doesn't matter why, just do it!

I did write my letter to Zinkey.  Let's hope more will do the same!  Thanks for the thread.

Sean Foster wrote:

Done and personalized. Thank you!

Nice.  Well done.  Remember though everyone that the review also applies to about 25 other other places such as Grand Staircase Escalante, but also another climbing area near and dear to all of us, the Giant Sequoia Nat. Mon., where the Needles and Dome Rock are located.  Those Sequoia groves in that area, which are beautiful, are at significant risk if logging is resumed in that area.  Let's keep public lands in public hands!

I am writing my comment now, but I have a question which scanning the website for public lands doesn't answer - is this comment applicable to all the national monuments? i.e. I'd like to lump them all together in my comment. It appears this is how the review is written. But not sure and don't have a lot of time - trying to do 5 things at once all day today. If anyone has a quick answer, thanks in advance.

Aerili wrote:

I am writing my comment now, but I have a question which scanning the website for public lands doesn't answer - is this comment applicable to all the national monuments? i.e. I'd like to lump them all together in my comment. It appears this is how the review is written. But not sure and don't have a lot of time - trying to do 5 things at once all day today. If anyone has a quick answer, thanks in advance.

Yes, it is for all of them.  The feedback is for about 20-30 national monuments that are being reviewed for public comment, including but not limited to Bears Ear.  

Though the original link listed is through Access Fund which is a fantastic organization, the comment from those sites will ultimately funneled to the DOI's official comment period listed here: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001. Please take the time to submit an original comment and show our government officials that there is more wealth in these  areas than the monetary value of the natural resources. 

Pete Spri wrote:

Yes, it is for all of them.  The feedback is for about 20-30 national monuments that are being reviewed for public comment, including but not limited to Bears Ear.  

Thank you. I submitted a detailed original comment. 

Final countdown bump

The review is of 26 national monuments created by Presidents Clinton, Bush (W) and Obama.  

Done. Bump.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/12/public-lands-bears-ears-national-monument-trump

Explain to me why the fed is better than the state to control the land.

gs goodyear wrote:

Explain to me why the fed is better than the state to control the land.

Federal land is public land - You , I and every American owns it.

State Land is owned by the State, and can be sold off at any time, such as when Utah sold a portion of Comb Ridge recently (http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4546018-155/op-ed-sitlas-comb-ridge-sale-leaves).

adam tschida wrote:

Federal land is public land - You , I and every American owns it.

State Land is owned by the State, and can be sold off at any time, such as when Utah sold a portion of Comb Ridge recently (http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4546018-155/op-ed-sitlas-comb-ridge-sale-leaves).

Technically SITLA lands are not state lands. They are trust lands given by the Federal Government to benefit the state's schools. Yes, they managed by a quasi-state agency but they are meant to derive monies which includes selling them. Such lands are different than those lands owned by the state that make up parks and others areas. Selling those have a different process.

Adam and Allen your answers are correct except federal land can also be sold., all be it not the designated areas.   Also, the comment we own is erroneous. We have no say in the rules that govern said federal lands.  The state can designate the land to be parks also. It is also easier for a concerned citizen to raise concerns at the local level for changes to state land sales. The question was still not answered: Why are the feds better than the states in regulated and or not regulating.

Your mind is already made up. And it is only your opinion on what state regulators would do. Oh and I like the view of drilling fields, similar to wind farms their beautiful too. 

Zinke is a fucking turd.  In the report he says a variety of views were expressed during public comments, but state and federal officials from Utah opposed the designations.

What he leaves out, is the fact 96% of the comments were opposed to changing the designation.  96%!!!!!!!!   The sad truth is that our comments make no difference whatsoever to this administration.

gs goodyear wrote:

Your mind is already made up. And it is only your opinion on what state regulators would do. Oh and I like the view of drilling fields, similar to wind farms their beautiful too. 

Its not an opinion, its a fact.  Utah has sold off over half of its state lands.  And its congressional delegation CONTINUES in 2017  to push for federal lands to be sold to private developers in Utah.  It is not conjecture --- this is what is actually happening.