January 13, 2017 Animal rights groups fight policies necessary to remedy wild horse disaster An estimated 55,000 wild horses roamed public U.S. rangelands as of March of last year, more than double the federally advised number. As natural…
January 12, 2017 The Rural vs Urban Divide: Why Trump took 2016 Who are these rural, red-county people who brought Mr. Trump into power? I’m a native Iowan and reporter in rural Marion County, Iowa. I…
January 12, 2017 Trump considers ways to reverse Obama Bears Ears land grab The controversial Bears Ears National Monument was designated by Obama in December and covers more than a million acres in rural Utah. It has…
January 11, 2017 Ammon Bundy’s attorney dogged by federal prosecutors following October acquittals Moments after the stunning Oct. 27 acquittal of Bundy and his co-defendants, Mumford argued that Bundy should be immediately released to walk freely out…
January 11, 2017 OPINION: How does Zinke stack up as Interior Secretary nominee? After lecturing Trump on the abuse of executive power, President Obama exercised his executive power to set aside over 1.5 million acres as the…
January 11, 2017 OPINION: 3 elements critical to winning Western lands debates The fundamental root of the problem in current resource land use development is Federal management. The incredibly large mass of land the Feds are…
January 10, 2017 Navajo suicides, economic hardship spike following EPA toxic river spill Navajos have blamed the spill for a spike in suicides among tribal members. McGraw is not surprised by the spike, saying, “Recently, in the areas that our…
January 10, 2017 Ranchers, Western communities fall victim to Obama ‘Midnight Monuments’ crusade Western state lawmakers, ranchers and those in the oil and gas industry, on the other hand, have widely panned Obama’s monument proclamations – claiming…
January 9, 2017 EPA sends 1,115,539 pounds of toxic metals into Lake Powell, pats itself on back for clean rivers Those toxic metals are now likely sitting at the bottom of Lake Powell where they could be stirred up by future storms and surges…
January 9, 2017 Feds try to silence blogger reporting about Oregon standoff informants Hunt said the agent asked where he got the documents, wanted him to remove his blog posts and hand over the reports he had….
