February 11, 2019 LaPlata County may terminate citizen-led land use planning districts The three Democrats on the county commission have found themselves at odds with local landowners, developers and businesses over what appears to be a…
February 11, 2019 Town council in Colorado wants to turn private canals into urban trails “The water districts all signed an agreement not to use the canal roads but the City has it in its long term budget. They,…
February 10, 2019 Speak your Mind: WOTUS comment period open “For the first time, we are clearly defining the difference between federally protected waterways and state protected waterways. Our simpler and clearer definition would…
January 31, 2019 American Prairie Reserve targeting Montana for conservation tourism takeover ..to the north the nonprofit American Prairie Reserve has begun work on eventually creating a more than 3 million-acre wildlife conservation area that caters…
January 23, 2019 Property rights being eroded by water recreation seekers In 2009, the editor of an outdoor recreation magazine decided that, rather than portaging his canoe down a 0.8 mile public trail connecting a…
January 20, 2019 Michigan township tells homeowners they don’t own the trees on their property The township of Canton, Michigan makes it a crime to remove any “tree” (defined as anything with a three-inch wooded stem) without a permit….
January 16, 2019 Farmers Under Fire: Trial Lawyers’ Attack on Agriculture “On paper it looks like they’re suing Smithfield Foods, but the farmer is the one on trial,” Overman said. “Once the trial is over…
January 14, 2019 Conservation Easements and Land Trusts are subverting private property rights There have been encroachments on private property over the past one hundred plus years, but now we are seeing a steady army of those…
December 17, 2018 Anti-grazing enviros charged with cattle endangerment accuse ranchers of kidnapping Two local ranchers who were investigating suspicious activities at their corrals on Lime Ridge caught Chilcoat and her husband closing a gate in order…
December 12, 2018 Enviros gnash teeth over Trump clarification of WOTUS definition “I think the point of this is that nobody is saying anybody cares less about water or the environment, but we finally have clear…
