April 7, 2017 Antiquities Act, unilateral monuments in crosshairs of Western conservative lawmakers Bears Ears has already gained national attention as a battleground between former President Barack Obama’s focus on environmental protection and locals who oppose more federal…
April 7, 2017 PLF fights Forest Service closure of thousands of miles of California roads and trails At issue is the unlawful way that the Service, seven years ago, implemented its 2005 Travel Management Rule. That rule called for formal designation…
April 6, 2017 Defense witnesses bring perspective to Bunkerville standoff trial Some of the defendants were photographed on the highway bridge above the cattle impoundment site. Defense witness Shannon Bushman, another protester, was shown a…
April 6, 2017 Obama DOI employees paid millions while under investigation for misconduct, sexual harassment The National Park Service spent the most on administrative leave among DOI agencies, with 69 employees on leave for nearly 62,000 hours at a…
April 6, 2017 Trump orders USDA to open conservation lands to grazing for wildfire-devastated ranchers President Donald Trump directed the department to open emergency grazing in certain lands in the Conservation Reserve Protection program in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma…
April 5, 2017 Harry Reid’s pet judge violates civil rights of Bundy Ranch defendants Most of the prosecution’s witnesses (federal agents) were allowed to be in the court room before they took the stand, but potential witnesses for…
April 5, 2017 Is NCBA spending Beef Checkoff Program money to hurt independent ranchers? National Cattlemen’s Beef Association appears to have supported USDA’s recent ruling to allow possible foot-and-mouth disease-infected South American beef to be brought into our…
April 4, 2017 ‘Equal Access to Justice Act’ is an open door to environmentalist tyranny “…over a decade, eight environmental groups filed more than 3,300 cases in federal district courts across the country. In the last two years of…
April 4, 2017 Trump’s DOI Secretary ends coal moratorium, opens way for oil and gas renaissance “Secretarial Order 3348 overturns the 2016 moratorium on all new coal leases on federal land and ends the programmatic environmental impacts statement that was…
April 3, 2017 Extreme greens lawsuits delay BLM payment of $69.9 million to New Mexico BLM spokeswoman Donna Hummel said two environmental groups — Wild Earth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity — formally protested all parcels in the…
