Governor Kristi Noem trumpeted yesterday that she will fly to Washington D.C. next week to complain about Bureau of Land Management conservation efforts. (Kristi doesn’t like anything with the initials BLM.)
But you know if Kristi’s going to the coast, she’s going to a fundraiser. Her testimony Thursday, June 15, apparently kicks off a long weekend of Beltway begging, leading to her “championing American values” at the Maryland Republican Party’s Red White and Blue Dinner on Saturday, June 17, at the Baltimore–Washington International Airport Marriot:
Regular tickets are $225; folks who want to snap and chat with Kristi have to cough up $1,000 for the private reception.
No word yet on how Noem plans to spend next Friday, jetting back home to catch up on work or looking for national TV cameras in front of which to pose.
What are American Values?
What are American Values?
Grazing on public land for less than 90% of fair market value — that’s an “American value”. (sarcasm…..)
The proposal to allow conservation permits on BLM lands is overdue. It will put pressure to align public land grazing fees more with market value of these lands.
The demise of the nation’s beef cattle herds shows a need to convert the nation’s public grazing lands to increase ungulate grazing in order to reduce wildfire danger.
With Donald on the ropes and taking one body shot after another, the Governor may sense an opening for her so far sleepy campaign. No better place to be during this time of uncertainty than Washington DC. Maybe she’s going to officially announce…..??
Anyone who would pay money to hear Noem blather needs their head examined.
billionaires don’t like BLM either
Far right Republicans, including most Libertarians, view public lands as private property in search of an “owner”. They object to land that is not taxed – even though they object to taxes in principle.
In 2008, Bidder 70 Tim DeChristopher crashed a US Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leasing auction to prevent greater harm to the planet then drove up the prices of some of the bids and won more than a dozen parcels valued at some $1.8 million. But in 2011 a federal jury in Salt Lake City declared him guilty of two federal felonies and sent him to prison.
About the time he was released environmental lawyer and activist, Robert Kennedy, Jr. wondered in The Nation why DeChristopher was incarcerated but Massey Energy Earth hater, Don Blankenship remained free.
Today, putting the country on the path of protecting at least 30 percent of our land and 30 percent of our ocean areas by 2030 (30×30) is imperative to preserving public lands especially now as the worst megadrought in at least 1200 years is driving desertification in much of the western United States. A supermajority of registered voters in the Mountain West agrees according to bipartisan polling conducted by the Colorado College State of the Rockies project.
Current BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning has called nearly every Trump era ruling illegal including the failure to manage mustangs safely while blows to morale and an exodus of employees have contributed to horse mortalities during gathers.
Now, conservation is center stage as the Department of Interior and BLM plan to sell preservation leases to parties interested in environmental protection. As expected, Earth haters like Mrs. Noem are apoplectic.
Don Blankenship was ultimately convicted of misdemeanor conspiracy for willfully violating federal mine safety standards and spent a little time in jail himself after an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine killed 29 people in 2010.
Tim DeChristopher founded the Climate Disobedience Center and is actively raising awareness of climate necessity defense.
The BLM is being sued for its plans to conduct additional, often-dangerous gathers to reduce the horse population in Wyoming’s Red Desert with hopes to avoid violence from Republican welfare ranchers.
Rewild the West.
So, as part of the 30×30 Initiative the Bureau of Land Management has purchased about twenty acres of an old mining claim on unceded Lakota ground just outside the Deadwood city limits. The parcel abuts the Grizzly Gulch burn so visitors can drive up Terrace Street to a future trailhead.
Horses and mountain bikes will be allowed but off highway vehicles and snowmobiles will still have to access Forest Service and BLM through Spruce Gulch. According to Chip Kimball at the BLM Field Office in Belle Fourche the City of Deadwood wouldn’t grant an easement compelling this acquisition. Black Hills Trails is developing a system of footpaths.
Most of the vegetation on the 274,000 surface acres of BLM in the South Dakota is prairie grassland or juniper woodlands but the trees at the Fort Meade Recreation Area are mostly ponderosa pine and bur oak. Around Lead and Deadwood pine and oak are mixed with spruce, birch, and quaking aspen. Much of the 2002 Grizzly Gulch Fire occurred on BLM ground.
By golly, it’s a long arc, Mr. Kurtz. But if all those tiny grains of sand we have are placed just right, that giant machine will come to a grinding halt, and we’ll jam er up good. Hahaha!
Good morning, DU. Mrs. Noem is the Ammon Bundy of South Dakota: their whole schtick is anarch-capitalism to keep the coffers filled. The Black Hills region is a de facto part of the American Redoubt so Spearditch resident and Republican legislator, Scott Odenbach is tapped into the survivalist real estate boom, too.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-found-dead-jail-cell/story?id=99984583
Another one bites the dust…
The Unibomber was a strong influence in the hair stylings of the younger Mr. H.
Now that grudz has ‘jacked this article to hair styles, I’d like to detour back to (almost) the main subject by enthusiastically agreeing with Dave FN’s post. JAY-sus. It’s hard to imagine paying more than a dollar store $1.25 to attend any event to see, hear, and endure Kristi Lynn’s stupid and corrupting lies; just the thought makes me want to bathe in straight Lysol viricidal liquid.
The Maryland Republican Fundraiser’s site and ticket “art” are the lamest, yet unintentionally funniest sh*t I’ve seen in months. If more than eleven True American Champions attend, it’s because Reptilians are abysmally stupid.
Maryland is among the bluest of the blue states. They have a (believe it or not) Liberal Republican Governor who has become a pariah within the Party. A more typical Maryland Republican would be Spiro T. Agnew. It is a sure thing that Governor Noem will find a few hard core soul mates in Maryland and she’s probably getting a cut of the picture taking money plus a five figure honorarium.
I’m considering that since her testimony before Congress is “State Business”, the Governor can write off the costs of the state plane or commercial flight, room and board, and incidental expenses to the State of South Dakota tab and double dip by collecting her honorarium and any other expense money provided by Maryland Republicans. It is good to be Governor.