February 6, 2017 Free the Hammonds: A letter to the President from a family friend A year ago, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, LaVoy Finicum, and their friends arrived in Oregon and camped at the Malheur Refuge to protest the…
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 4, 2017 Will BLM agent Dan Love misconduct cripple federal prosecutors in Bundy trial? Whipple represents ranch owner and Bundy family patriarch Cliven Bundy, 70, whose years-long feud with the federal government over cattle grazing rights on federal land culminated…
February 4, 2017 EPA employees using encrypted messaging to skirt open records laws? A conservative watchdog group filed an open-records request with the EPA on Thursday demanding the agency explain whether its employees are using encrypted messaging…
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…
February 3, 2017 Citing bias, Oregon Standoff defendant seeks new judge for case In a trial last fall, jurors found standoff leader Ammon Bundy and six others not guilty of felony charges. Prosecutors decided despite losing to…
February 3, 2017 COMMENTARY: Rights taken for granted could become rights lost The truth of the matter is that it really doesn’t matter who occupies the White House, the governor’s mansion or your county courthouse; “We…
February 2, 2017 Obama’s most onerous BLM regs in cross hairs of Wyoming delegation “Under the Obama Administration, lands in Wyoming and all across the west were the target of aggressive federal regulations that were devastating to our…
February 2, 2017 BLM agent cited in IG report for ethics violations, threats, also lead raid on Bundy Ranch The agent also is accused of bragging that he “owned” the national director of BLM’s Office of Law Enforcement and Security and that nothing…
February 1, 2017 California ranchers, farmers sue over unlawful, unscientific, endangered wolf listing PLF, farmers, and ranchers challenge state’s ‘endangered’ listing of gray wolf Damien M. Schiff Pacific Legal Foundation So argues a lawsuit filed on January…
