September 4, 2019 Pendley sets the record straight about his work defending property rights and keeping government in check “Contrary to characterizations by the press regarding my career, in leading a nonprofit, public-interest law firm based in Colorado, I represented those left behind…
September 2, 2019 Public Land Expansion Syndrome swamping southern Utah’s rural communities It is time to stop the fallacy that a tourist driven economy is cleaner and has less impact on the land than other industries….
August 28, 2019 Utah OHV group confronts Interior Department about double standard on public lands OHVs are singled out as a unique threat because they are designed, marketed, and manufactured for off-road use. While this statement is true, many…
August 12, 2019 Democrats using Land and Water Conservation Fund to enact socialist lands agenda 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…
July 24, 2019 Sagebrush rebel appointed BLM deputy director of policy 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…
July 16, 2019 Western Caucus members say BLM will be “more responsive” in new Colorado location “BLM will be more efficient and responsive in its new home of Grand Junction, where its employees will live alongside the ranchers, miners, and…
February 25, 2019 Avalanche of land-grabbing “management” bills will harm state, local economies 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…
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 21, 2019 Utah challenges federal control of western lands An argument could be made that federal ownership of major swaths of 12 Western states effectively deprives them of the same sovereignty as the…
January 13, 2019 Lee recruits Romney in fight to protect Utah from Antiquities Act abuses “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…
