Public Lands

by Bill Boyle, San Juan Record Editor Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke completed a two-day visit to San Juan County on May 8 and 9 to investigate Bears Ears National Monument. The visit included a tour of the monument via Black Hawk helicopter, on-site visits to several locations,...
At the same time that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced a tour of the Bears Ears National Monument, the Department of the Interior announced the first ever formal public comment period for members of the public to officially weigh in on monument designations under the Antiquities...
DUST IN THE WINDby Bill Boyle With the second visit in less than a year by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, it is another big week in San Juan County. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spent Monday and Tuesday in San Juan County as part of a four-day tour of Utah. This follows on the...
Soon after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to review use of the Antiquities Act, San Juan County Commissioners made a trip to Washington DC to meet with federal officials. Commissioners Phil Lyman, Rebecca Benally, and Bruce Adams, along with county administrator...
A Utah-based Native American tribe is expressing concern about the process that created Bears Ears National Monument. Darren Parry, Vice Chairman of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation, explains his opposition to the designation in a letter that is available to read here or at the...
by Darren ParryVice Chairman, Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation For thousands of years, our tribal elders would sit down with our young children and tell them stories about our people. The stories were always the same, never a word out of place. Our children were taught life...
Possible abuses of the Antiquities Act will be reviewed in the next 45 days after an Executive Order was signed by President Donald Trump on April 26. Trump signed the executive order in a ceremony at the headquarters of the Department of the Interior. The event was attended by Vice...
See updated story here U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review of the use of the Antiquities Act over the past 20 years, including the creation of two massive national monuments that were created in southern Utah. The review will begin with the 1996 designation of the...
by Bill Boyle In the four months since the designation of the Bears Ears National Monument by President Barack Obama, San Juan County seems to have been in a state of suspended animation. Now that President Donald Trump will request a review of the Antiquities Act, I think it is time...
An earthquake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale struck an isolated area of San Juan County on April 22 at 1 a.m. The epicenter of the quake is on Mancos Mesa near Lake Powell. A number of area residents report that they felt the earthquake, including people in Blanding and Bluff, and...

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