March 12, 2017 Patagonia and the politics of subsidized public lands recreation Every year the federal government spends millions to support recreation, without earning much revenue from those campers, bikers and hikers. For every dollar that…
March 9, 2017 Utah challenges road plan devised by BLM and extreme green group The state says the program would be imposed on the counties against their will and could jeopardize other historic road claims. The counties say…
March 8, 2017 Part II: Environmental Multilevel Marketing, or Lobbying 101 As Green multilevel marketing has expanded into Utah, Colorado, Oregon and Nevada, we see an ever-creeping web of bureaucratic power under the guise of…
March 7, 2017 The Worldwide Web of Environmental Multilevel Marketing …when SUWA, Outdoors, Friends of Cedar Mesa, Patagonia, or the Utah supporters of progressive State Senator Jim Dabakis, et al, protest Capitalism and corporate…
March 6, 2017 BLM Idaho management plan to prohibit hobby rock collecting Approximately 3 million acres are targeted for withdrawal in Idaho. Affected areas include much of the land in and around the Lost River basin…
March 5, 2017 Utah ranchers pushed off public lands by restrictive federal parks, monuments Just like humans, cattle have a personal bubble – a flight zone. Phillips can prove this to many a camper after trying to move…
March 3, 2017 Judge: Nevada Rancher’s Son Must Pay $587K, Remove Cattle March 3, 2017 Associated Press reports: A Nevada rancher whose father led a decades-long fight with the U.S. government over grazing and property rights…
February 1, 2017 Welfare Recreation: The truth about subsidized public lands use in southeastern Utah For those opposed to ranching and grazing on public lands, perhaps the terms “Welfare Hiker” or “Welfare Camper” should be coined to remind folks that everyone should…
January 31, 2017 Zinke affirms support for unconstitutional federal control of America’s lands Excessive federal ownership is not only illegal; it is also bad policy. Federal land management is subject to the constant buffeting of special-interest politics,…
January 24, 2017 Poll: Utah ready to fight for state control of public lands The question is should use of those lands be determined by federal land agencies – like the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest…
