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https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/co-management-bears-ears-tribes/>
"I remember the rhythmic crunch of each of my steps breaking the crust of the
snow on the road below. The twin buttes of the Bears Ears on the horizon sat
ahead of me, backlit by the low January sunset. It was the winter of 2018, and
I was running in protest with 17 friends and six dogs across Utah’s Bears Ears
and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments to raise awareness about the
Trump administration’s efforts to radically reduce their protections and
sidelined tribes’ involvement in their management. At that moment, I also had
no idea where my next paycheck would come from. Not only was I running in
protest, but I had also quit my job with the Department of Energy in protest as
well. I had left because I could not stomach the moral compromises I would need
to navigate as a Native person implementing the Trump administration’s
policies.
The election of 2016 represented a seismic shift. Just months prior, the term
“climate change” was a centerpiece of our work under the Obama administration;
however, with the change in the presidency, I was asked to scrub this term from
all our public-facing materials. I refused, and later shared this experience
with congress. The climate of our office grew tense after the Trump
administration appointed a new official who had advocated for the targeted
executions of “liberal” professors, rooted out government employees who
“believed” in climate change, and shared a multitude of racist and anti-Semitic
views. The best way I could advocate for my community was to fight from the
outside to make a change.
Four years later, we now sit at a precarious junction in our history. On June
21, the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and Five Tribes of the
Intertribal Coalition—the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe,
Zuni Tribe, and Ute Indian Tribe—signed a cooperative management agreement for
the Bears Ears National Monument. The cooperative management, or
“comanagement,” approach between the federal government and tribes is not a new
concept and has been implemented in other federal programs. These agreements
are more common in law enforcement, hazardous and solid waste disposal, tax
revenues, economic development, and allocation of water rights. This marks the
first time in the modern history of federal land management that the U.S.
government will treat tribes as equals and experts, and not as people to be
subjugated under a paternalistic policy."
Via
Future Crunch Jul 2, 2022:
https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-malaria-bullfighting-offshore-wind/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
