Just what does the LWCF do? The Fund was created in 1964...Its main activity has been to gobble up private land (read: nationalize) and put it under government ownership, management, and political control. Among other things, this means that the…
The Mountain States Legal Foundation under Pendley's leadership has defended the federal government against environmental groups that challenged Interior in court; it also has challenged Interior, the Forest Service and others for regulatory overreach. Scott Streater E&E News Conservative lawyer…
"BLM will be more efficient and responsive in its new home of Grand Junction, where its employees will live alongside the ranchers, miners, and farmers who are most impacted by its decisions. I applaud Secretary Bernhardt and Casey Hammond for…
"Some clever monkeywrenchers, however, cut fence to allow cattle to wander through campgrounds, picnic areas, and other recreation areas in order to outrage more people about the grazing of livestock on public land." ~From Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching…
The Senate package designates 1.3 million acres in California, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah as wilderness, the strictest form of federal protection that bans development of almost any kind as well as roads and most forms of motorized travel. It…
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 series of streams and ponds on public land, he would canoe across private property, which allowed…
An argument could be made that federal ownership of major swaths of 12 Western states effectively deprives them of the same sovereignty as the remaining 38 states, he said. “Why are we inferior because we chose to live in the…
“Rural Americans want what all Americans want: a dignified decent-paying job, a family to love and support, and a healthy community whose future is determined by local residents – not their self-styled betters thousands of miles away,” Sen. Lee said.…
The federal government, on the other hand, has no skin in the game when it comes to shutting down monuments and national parks thousands of miles from Capitol Hill. For the feds, it's all a political game in Washington, DC.…
As long as there is a LWCF, BLM will have the financial wherewithal to gobbling up rural land, in the West and elsewhere. The program’s future has been in limbo since September when Congress failed to reauthorize it. An attempt…