October 25, 2016 EDITORIAL: Politically-Motivated Lands Deal Cheats Utah’s Most Impoverished County “When a county that gives up land to “producing” counties receives a quarter of the mineral lease payment generated in the receiving county, what…
October 25, 2016 Bears Ears Autumn Free Range Report extends a warm thanks to Kara Laws, owner of Illuminated Moments, for sharing her beautiful photographs of the landscapes, trees and wildlife…
October 25, 2016 Bugs on the Menu: U.N. pushes insect livestock as world hunger solution Eating insects is well-established in Africa, Asia and Australia. But the agency concludes that the practice alled entomophagy should increase in North America as well. Can…
October 24, 2016 Climate deception ‘clobbering’ the poorest among us A colder planet with less CO2 would punish them. And a chillier CO2-deprived planet with less reliable, less affordable energy (from massive wind, solar…
October 24, 2016 Escalating wolf kills alarm Oregon cattlemen, wildlife biologists ‘If you had told me five years ago we would be dealing with these kinds of situations, I would have told you you’re nuts.’…
October 23, 2016 National Park Service’s persistent culture of sexual harassment Jon Jarvis, who will retire from the park service in January after a 40-year career, was called before Congress in June after a report…
October 22, 2016 Broken Trust: Jewell plan falls short of promised tribal equality “Cooperative” management does not put Native American tribes on the same legal footing with the U.S. government. “It seems they don’t want to have…
October 21, 2016 Memo to Feds: Don’t grab another acre until you can manage what you have Consider just a few of these backlogged projects on federal lands: At least $15 million is needed to fix the “deteriorated condition” of the…
October 21, 2016 EDITORIAL: America’s dangerous transition away from the Rule of Law Unless the citizens acknowledge and appreciate the dire threat this transfer of power to an elite few poses, and act in time to stop…
October 20, 2016 Another Utah county joins the battle against Bears Ears land grab A majority of Utah politicians, almost all of them Republicans, have argued the measure could crush already-struggling rural economies across the southern end of…
