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One year ago today at Saddle Mountain Camp 🏕

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I rebuilt the clothes lines & and added hangers and a toiletry ledge to the camp shower 🚿

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Congress Raids Ancestral Native American Lands With Defense Bill

Congress Raids Ancestral Native American Lands With Defense Bill

The Apache Leap area

The U.S. Senate passed a measure authorizing the nation’s defense programs and along with it managed to give lands sacred to Native Americans to a foreign company that owns a uranium mine with Iran.

The $585 billion National Defense Authorization Act of 2015 is one of the must-pass pieces of legislation that Congress moves every year. But like they did in attaching extraneous…

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Hidden in recent defense bill was a package granting illegal land swap near Superior, Ariz., for the benefit of a foreign company Rio Tinto PLC who seek to mine copper.

Resolution Copper -- a Rio Tinto venture with BHP Billiton Ltd. -- would be given more than 2,000 acres of federal land in return for more than 5,000 acres of company land.

Conservation advocates and American Indian groups, particularly the San Carlos Apache Tribe, have for years been trying to block the swap, saying the mine would damage natural resources and culturally sensitive areas. A site called Apache Leap in the Tonto National Forest has been of particular concern.

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Action Needed: Stop Apache Land Grab

Action Needed: Stop Apache Land Grab

There are some things that just shouldn’t happen. I’m rarely if ever on the soapbox, preferring instead to keep my opinions private and if asked to share; somewhat moderate, but the latest bit of legislation poised to pass congress had me crying tears of dejected sadness Tuesday afternoon.

The bill that had me so up-in-arms, (titled the ‘Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense…

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