February 18, 2017 House Dems vote to keep ‘boot heel’ of Revenue Dept. on necks of Colorado land owners It is an article of faith that Democrats in the Colorado Capitol care nothing for the state’s farmers and ranchers, and the big-city liberals…
February 18, 2017 Fact checking Utah’s corporate environmentalist exit …the governor won’t be hurt. The Legislature won’t be hurt. The congressional delegation won’t be hurt. In fact, they’ll be liberated. No longer will…
February 17, 2017 Oregon lawmakers step up to consider state authority over lands Wilson and other rural Republicans pointed out that their districts are overwhelmingly composed of federal land. They said cutbacks in logging due to overregulation had limited…
February 17, 2017 With timber communities at risk, Oregon counties fight Cascade-Siskiyou expansion The association sued President Donald Trump, the United States, Acting Secretary of the Interior Kevin Haugrud and the Bureau of Land Management. It asks…
February 16, 2017 When Marcus Mumford earned his ‘silver bracelets’ Was he confrontational? Did he attack someone in the courtroom? No, and no. Mumford’s ‘crime’ was to exercise his God-given right to speak in…
February 16, 2017 Nevada, Oregon Bundy trials marred by bumbling prosecutors, tainted witnesses U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown already has issued orders for occupation leaders Ammon Bundy, who was acquitted of all charges, and Ryan Payne,…
February 15, 2017 Too Big: Effort to shrink Grand Staircase/Escalante NM gets bi-partisan support At 1.88 million acres, Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is larger than the combined footprints of the state’s “Mighty 5” national parks and Cedar…
February 15, 2017 Fed agencies not held to account for environmental destruction, wildfires Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer told me that immediately after the Canyon fire, local loggers organized and went into the burned area to retrieve…
February 14, 2017 A monument to ‘presidential vanity,’ it’s time to rescind Bears Ears Even modern progressives must admit that such monuments to presidential vanity are a bad thing. Like many Progressive Era policies, the Antiquities Act is…
February 14, 2017 Hypocritical greens leave environmental disaster at Standing Rock I’m not sure what all of this is supposed to mean. That leftists and litterbugs go together? That so-called environmentalists are actually hypocrites willing…
