{"id":16859,"date":"2017-06-16T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=16859"},"modified":"2017-06-10T19:12:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T00:12:58","slug":"deseret-news-op-ed-a-native-american-explains-why-a-bears-ears-national-monument-would-do-more-harm-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/16\/deseret-news-op-ed-a-native-american-explains-why-a-bears-ears-national-monument-would-do-more-harm-than-good\/","title":{"rendered":"(Deseret News) Op-ed: A Native American explains why a Bears Ears National Monument would do more harm than good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: For decades we\u2019ve seen special interest groups like Sierra Club and SUWA lobby for the full extinguishment of our rights to public lands using false narratives. These narratives pushed by special-interest groups have been quite discouraging for Native Americans like myself who actually go to Bears Ears itself and understand the area and see how much a national monument does more harm than good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Another disingenuous narrative that speaks to the hear<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">t of the issue would be \u201ctribal co-management.\u201d The initial reasons for a Bears Ears National Monument have always been about \u201ctribal co-management,\u201d yet the end results are far from ringing true. If you believed the rhetoric coming from special-interest groups, you\u2019d actually think the Bears Ears Commission actually has the same level of authority as the United States Department of Interior in managing the Bears Ears National Monument.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Upon reading pages seven and eight of the Bears Ears National Monument proclamation, lo and behold you\u2019d actually find that, \u201cBears Ears Commission is hereby established to provide Guidance and Recommendations.\u201d Wait a second, Recommendations? Guidance? That doesn\u2019t sound like co-management at all. The term \u201ctribal co-management\u201d isn\u2019t even stated in the actual monument proclamation at all. In fact the very language for the proclamation simply implies that the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service would give a Native American voice on land management within Bears Ears National Monument a rather monotonous, \u201cdully noted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865680784\/A-Native-American-explains-why-a-Bears-Ears-National-Monument-would-do-more-harm-than-good.html\">Click Here to Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865680784\/A-Native-American-explains-why-a-Bears-Ears-National-Monument-would-do-more-harm-than-good.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bearsears2016-e1474139085744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: For decades we\u2019ve seen special interest groups like Sierra Club and SUWA lobby for the full extinguishment of our rights to public lands using false narratives. These narratives pushed by special-interest groups have been quite discouraging for Native Americans like myself who actually go to Bears Ears itself and understand the area and see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16860,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859\/revisions\/16860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}