September 21, 2018 Congressional streamlining needed to help both property owners and protected species The latest figures show that the greater sage grouse occupies more than 170 million acres in 11 western states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada,…
April 16, 2018 Trump considering repeal of counterproductive endangered species rule It’s probably an esoteric issue to most Americans, but to landowners and businesses, primarily in the Western U.S., the “blanket” extension of ESA protections…
March 29, 2018 Washington ranchers angered by Zinke reversal on grizzly plan Ethan Lane, executive director of the Public Lands Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Federal Lands organization, said those groups are extremely disappointed….
March 17, 2018 D.C. swamp creatures freak over Zinke’s public lands vision His reasoning was that managers with their feet on the ground have the most knowledge of their resources in order to foster multiple use…
March 8, 2018 Utah demands compensation for revenues sucked up by federal lands Ivory said “in lieu” should mean “equal to.” However, he said Utah makes more in two months from tax revenue on the taxable land…
March 6, 2018 Move it West: BLM has no business being in D.C., literally! One important reason for moving BLM headquarters to the West is more than 99 percent of the land the Bureau manages is in western…
March 4, 2018 Incapable of caring for what it has, federal government continues to gobble up land These days, Interior spends over $200 million a year buying land. That raises the perennial question: how much is enough? The government already owns…
February 27, 2018 Americans paying a big price for increasingly destructive, deadly wildfires Dozens of people were killed in these catastrophic wildfires, many thousands of homes and structures destroyed and the tragedy continues to this day as many thousands…
February 10, 2018 Shuffling the Swamp: BLM leaders shifted to other agencies in Interior reorganization Alaska Director Bud Cribley, Colorado Director Ruth Welch and New Mexico Director Amy Lueders are among as many as 50 BLM and other Interior…
January 30, 2018 Zinke blasts National Parks failure to deal with ‘culture of sexual harassment’ “We’ve had a culture of sexual harassment. That era has come rapidly to a close,” he told The DC. “I have fired four individuals….
