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 Without explanation, BLM hides Native American artifacts from tribes More that 3,500 Native American artifacts taken from an ancient, lakeside village site on public land in eastern Riverside County remain boxed up and…
October 13, 2016 Want to honor Indigenous People? Get the Feds out of their business The question of Indian rights goes far beyond the location of a single pipeline: Shouldn’t Native Americans be free to make their own decisions…
October 13, 2016 What to do about growing conflicts over range lands in the West: Part 4 Today’s federal grazing institutions promote far too much raiding and not enough trading. As the Bundy standoff demonstrated, conflicts over land use have the…
October 12, 2016 The ‘nuclear option’ to remedy feral horse catastrophe Feral horses may have irreversibly degraded millions of acres of rangeland, as the advisory board members discovered on a recent field trip to Antelope…
October 11, 2016 Wolves kill more calves on private land in Oregon The Rogue Pack’s alpha male, OR-7, became well known when he dispersed from Northeast Oregon’s Imnaha pack in September 2011. He wandered across the…
October 11, 2016 What to do about growing conflicts over range lands in the West: Part 2 Grazing rights are inherently tenuous because agencies continually reallocate rangeland resources and adjust grazing privileges to meet changing political conditions. Moreover, without the right…
October 8, 2016 Oregon locals would be driven off lands by national monument Special interest groups from Portland Bend are lobbying the president to create a national monument in Eastern Oregon’s Malheur County. But what they’re not…
October 7, 2016 Don’t vote away your rights to hunting, fishing, wilderness sports One of the candidates in the 2016 race, Hillary Clinton, has promised to double down on Obama’s environmental policies. Americans concerned about property rights,…
October 7, 2016 The case for energy development on tribal lands On Indian lands, companies must go through at least four federal agencies and 49 steps to acquire a permit for energy development, compared to…
