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 —…
January 23, 2017 Wyoming lawmakers consider future of lands stewardship amendment On the other side are critics of the federal government’s bureaucracy. They note that it can take over a decade to permit grazing, mining,…
January 19, 2017 Fake news about looting used to push federal Bears Ears takeover San Juan County Commissioner Rebecca Benally testified to this fact in a Congressional hearing last September. In her testimony she asserted that not only…
January 16, 2017 Corporate giants buying big influence over national parks, monuments Government cronyism has had a disquieting and steep upward trend during the Obama Administration. Whether it be ‘alternative’ or ‘green’ energy corporations like Solyndra, receiving hundreds…
January 15, 2017 Phil Lyman: A Government of Bullies Groups like the Wilderness Society with their “BLM Action Center” boast about being able to leverage the inefficiencies of the BLM (Bureau Of Land…
January 14, 2017 Bears Ears land seizure another broken promise to Utah’s Native tribes It began as an agenda item on the Conservation Lands Foundation land takeover list in 2014 and they used financial allies until they had…
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 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…
