March 1, 2017 Environmentalist Navajo calls opponents of Bears Ears takeover “Tame Indians” A recent survey confirms the fact that an overwhelming percentage of locals and Native tribes residing in San Juan County want Bears Ears rescinded, and outspoken and well-funded environmentalist…
February 27, 2017 Making The Rural American West Great Again Commentary by: Tony Franco | 2/23/2017 President Trump was elected thanks to voters in states surrounding the Great Lakes, thanks to his…
February 24, 2017 Forest Service to takeover private land in Colorado county where 96% already under federal control “As a county with 96.5% public land (of which 48% is Wilderness or de facto wilderness), three national forests, and BLM land, we have a…
February 19, 2017 Former Colorado State Rep. calls out enviros for lies about bighorns on grazing allotments In two different opinion pieces in the Durango Herald, Dan Parkinson and John Mumma mislead readers about our sheep allotments on a very small part…
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 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…
February 9, 2017 Washington House Bill addresses death threats leveled against ranchers following wolf interactions In the Seattle Times article, Dr. Rob Wielgus, Director of the Large Carnivore Conservation Lab at WSU, said a Northeast Washington rancher had “elected…
February 5, 2017 Letter to Zinke: Bears Ears is a special interest ‘scheme,’ not the will of the people As the details emerge of the new Monument, it is clear that scheming special interest groups have been crafting the details of this Monument…
February 3, 2017 Millard County Utah: A case study in urban ‘values’ infringing on rural property rights Although Millard County is the literal definition of rural, “urban” values increasingly seem to dominate local thought processes and resulting public policy. Despite lip…
January 30, 2017 Feds side with enviros, ban grazing on 68,000 acres for frog study Multiple environmental groups — Concerned Friends of the Winema, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Western Watersheds Project, Oregon Wild and the Center for Biological Diversity —…