November 12, 2017 Bill to reduce job-killing oil and gas leasing delays moves through House committee According to bill sponsors, access to federal lands since 2008 has fallen by over 40 percent. Between land set aside as off-limits, duplicative environmental…
November 11, 2017 Cattlemen’s group supports BLM Advisory Board horse management plan “Unfortunately, Congress has impeded the ability of the BLM to do its job by continuing to deny funding for common sense and ecologically-sound management…
November 1, 2017 California ranchers forced to relocate cattle due to wolf predation “The Department of Fish and Wildlife, the folks that are working with the wolves, are not livestock people. They claim that they’ve got tools…
October 25, 2017 Environmentalist-driven policies are destroying forests, agricultural lands “Time and again, we see vivid boundaries between the young, healthy, growing forests managed by state, local, and private landholders, and the choked, dying,…
October 22, 2017 Are The Days of Regulation Through Litigation Over? One of the most egregious things about the EPA has always been the way it operated for the benefit of the large “environmental” groups…
October 17, 2017 EPA chief issues new directive to end abusive ‘sue and settle’ deals The EPA’s practice of handling lawsuits by using ‘consent decrees’ and ‘settlement agreements’ has violated norms of transparency and given outside groups–some of which…
October 9, 2017 Nanny-state Forest Service has priorities all out of whack The lack of management that has caused the death and destruction of massive swaths of forestland is not entirely the Forest Service’s fault, of…
October 5, 2017 Trump okays emergency wildfire funding, urges quick Forest Service reforms Unfortunately, federal land management agencies have failed to recognize this correlation and timber harvests are down 80 percent over the last 30 years. Such…
October 4, 2017 Ranchers call out feds for ignoring concerns about mandatory ID program …R-CALF USA claims there was no such consensus by commenters and, in fact, many if not most commenters were adamantly opposed to both the…
September 30, 2017 Growing wild horse population may imperil Utah’s sage grouse Those declining numbers, says BLM spokeswoman Lisa Reid, put the agency in conflict with its own sage grouse management directives intended to boost the…
