April 14, 2022 Former Utah BLM agent with ties to radical environmental groups and ousted Alaska director return to the agency Palma will also oversee the “development, implementation, and management” of a national BLM “climate/equity/environmental justice committee,” the job post said. Scott Streater E&E News…
June 28, 2021 Another judge blocks Biden’s racially-charged farmer relief program The ruling comes nearly two weeks after a Wisconsin judge ruled similarly regarding a suit brought by a dozen white farmers insisting that they be included…
May 31, 2021 Feds determine that a South Dakota puddle is “wetlands,” order farmer to stop cultivating his land A South Dakota farmer is suing the federal government after its Agriculture Department ordered him not to farm his farm. It seems the Washington…
January 19, 2021 Trump Administration issues EO creating Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee Federal wildland fire management lacks a single focal point of responsibility for policy leadership and accountability for cost controls. While executive departments and agencies…
November 7, 2020 Trump Admin regulatory changes would end ESA landgrabs In 2011, FWS designated over 1,500 acres of land as critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog. Despite this designation, the dusky gopher frog…
September 3, 2020 Trump’s Fish and Wildlife chief “working hard” to remove wolves from endangered species list Skipwith, echoing the Fish and Wildlife Service’s long-held policy, told the AP the wolf has “biologically recovered” and that its removal from the list…
August 16, 2020 “Open Fields” doctrine leads to government spying, arrests, and outrageous infringements of private property rights Hollingsworth’s residence was searched by U.S. government and state officials, dressed to the nines in assault gear, seeking to regain possession of a trail…
January 13, 2020 Idaho’s destiny in the hands of outside governments and special interest groups While it is easy to blame politicians, influences from new folks moving to our state, or our neighbors who are not getting to the…
December 26, 2019 D.C. swamp creatures freak over BLM’s “common sense” move to western Colorado …BLM’s employees work in the West, its top officials work in a high-rise office building just steps from the Washington Nationals baseball stadium. BLM…
October 18, 2019 The Trump administration’s successful war against bureaucratic bullies All of these cases share a common feature: They arose from unelected bureaucrats making completely selective decisions about how a law should be interpreted…
