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….
January 8, 2017 Obama moves to lock up 6.5 million acres of resource-rich Alaska lands Overall, 4.8 million acres would be closed off to mining in the Eastern Interior under the new plans, while 1.7 million would be potentially…
January 7, 2017 COMMENTARY: Punish criminals, but free the Hammonds By coincidence, the original judge in the Hammonds’ case found a mandatory five-year sentence overly punitive given the circumstances of their crimes. The Hammonds…
January 7, 2017 Progressive elites seek to ‘socially engineer’ rural Americans out of existence Consider the case of the late John Rapanos, a hard-working, patriotic Michigan developer who, as the son of Greek immigrants, was living the American…
January 6, 2017 Feds use environmental law to ramp up war on rural America That’s what happens, for instance, when the EPA threatens landowners with $37,500 per day in fines ($1 mil per month) for actions as innocuous…
January 6, 2017 Why Trump’s new BLM Director must fire Daniel P. Love What resulted was an unbelievable show of force, including over 200 agents, among whom were snipers whose weapons were trained on the protesters. Cliven Bundy’s civil disagreement with the BLM…
