Pearce last week urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to reduce the outline of the monument from 775 square miles to about 95 square miles and hopes to accompany Zinke on a promised visit to New Mexico in coming weeks. Albuquerque…
Within the ESA, extensive (unconstitutional) powers are given to the federal government to limit activities on state and private lands. For this reason, various agencies, including the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Fish & Wildlife, and numerous extreme…
Zinke's departmental shake up is not just your typical, run-of-the-mill reorganization that happens each time a new administration takes power. Zinke took over a department that has been dogged by controversy, corruption, and a reputation that prompts fear and loathing…
When the Monument was established in 2000, Byers said it was committed that a visitors center would be established to encourage tourism to the Monument. To date, Byers said no visitors center has been established nor is one planned even…
“The ranching community has been buried in regulation and limitations over the past 25 years,” the NMCGA’s Boone said. “More often than not, we can see what the outcomes down the road will be but we have no standing to…
That means virtually every revenue-producing, recreational and other activity is regulated, restricted, prohibited or under attack in courts and other venues. No timber cutting in national forests, fostering massive wildfires. No vehicles, wheelchairs, energy or mineral exploration in wilderness and…
It is guaranteed that progressive coalitions and corporate environmentalist groups will be mobilizing followers to flood the Interior Department with fawning cut & paste comments supporting these land grabs. You can fight back, and it will take one minute of…
“Monuments should never be put in a position to prevent rather than protect and the president is pro-energy across the board,” Zinke said. “We, as a country, we need an economy and what drives our economy in a lot of…
Redd showed Zinke around her ranch and said she worries whether the government will build infrastructure such as bathrooms and install railings around cultural sites to make sure visitors don't trample the area. "I would rather we not have a…
McIntosh believes the review needs to be taken a step further to include all prior landowner rights. "Most of these national monument designations have included up to almost 2 million acres of land without any consideration that there is private…