January 1, 2017 Happy New Year: Obama land grabs can be reversed by Congress, Trump Administration Mr. Obama has repeatedly abused his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare vast new national monuments, including on the high seas. This week’s…
December 27, 2016 Utah Republicans plan to counteract possible Obama move on Bears Ears Worried that Obama will aggressively act on his way out the door, opponents like Lee are now gearing up for a protracted fight to…
November 21, 2016 Overzealous federal efforts to ‘protect’ lands are counterproductive In our desperation to save our treasures while something remains to be saved, we on the protectionist side have repeatedly done an end run…
November 10, 2016 Bears Ears will not be protected by overrunning it with tourism Though it aims to protect sacred space and preserve archaeological sites, a monument would actually tame the wild, overrun the spiritual, enforce webs of…
November 8, 2016 National Monuments: The New Feudalism In areas designated national monuments, productive activities are heavily restricted or even banned. These are precisely the sorts of restrictions that federal agencies have…
November 1, 2016 Proposed Cascade-Siskiyou Monument will devastate local communities If this recent attempt moves ahead, it will have devastating effects on the local communities. Also keep in mind that over 50,000 of these…
October 20, 2016 Another Utah county joins the battle against Bears Ears land grab A majority of Utah politicians, almost all of them Republicans, have argued the measure could crush already-struggling rural economies across the southern end of…
October 15, 2016 In land grab schemes, rich progressives push Feds to lock up millions of acres Its appetite for land is insatiable: millions will be spent, not improving visitor facilities, but acquiring land and demanding a larger park, after all…
October 7, 2016 Don’t vote away your rights to hunting, fishing, wilderness sports One of the candidates in the 2016 race, Hillary Clinton, has promised to double down on Obama’s environmental policies. Americans concerned about property rights,…
September 28, 2016 Would Bears Ears designation expose sacred sites to destructive tourist traffic? Bears Ears: Will tourism be placed over preservation? “At the Effigy National Monument, it seems like tourism took precedence over preservation. Can we expect…
