October 24, 2018 Trump signs measure rolling back harmful water regulations in West The Trump administration’s memo is aimed at speeding up environmental reviews and simplifying the approval process for building permits in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Tim…
October 12, 2018 Does Congress have the guts to fix feral horse crisis? Beyond legislative efforts to impede horse slaughter and unlimited sales as management tools for America’s feral equines, Congress, including members of both parties, has…
October 3, 2018 Wildfire Winter? …we are now witnessing yearly events, worsening and predictable events, that are causing direct and indirect devastation to people, crops and communities. We might…
September 20, 2018 Arizona Apaches employ logging, clearing, prescribed burns in wildfire management “On the Rattlesnake Fire, it didn’t burn hardly any on the White Mountain Apache side because it burned up to their prescribed burn and…
March 28, 2018 Will Forest Service plan lock up San Juan lands with wilderness designations? The preliminary analysis conducted by the Forest Service makes it appear as if large tracts of land could be designated in the Abajo unit…
March 27, 2018 New ‘flexible grazing permits’ model being tested by western ranchers “Farmers and ranchers know the wildlife and the land they work better than anyone; it only makes sense that we would enlist them in…
March 24, 2018 Spending bill’s forest provisions streamline timber harvests, deter enviro lawsuits “It’s comprehensive forest management and it address the growing economic and environmental threats of catastrophic wildfires,” Gianforte said. “It streamlines environmental reviews so we…
March 15, 2018 Natural gas project a huge boon to Utah’s economy, public schools The BLM, which first initiated public scoping of the project nine years ago, conducted a draft review looking at environmental impacts and other project…
March 14, 2018 Please attend Utah BLM monument management plan meetings Sound, scientifically-based management of natural resources in and around monuments is critical to the health of the environment, wildlife and communities. Policies must ensure…
March 4, 2018 Incapable of caring for what it has, federal government continues to gobble up land These days, Interior spends over $200 million a year buying land. That raises the perennial question: how much is enough? The government already owns…
