February 24, 2017 Malice at Malheur: FBI informants authorized to coax protesters, engage in criminal conduct While federal prosecutors made more deliberate attempts to draw connections for jurors between the evidence and the conspiracy charge, much of the day was…
February 24, 2017 Forest Service to takeover private land in Colorado county where 96% already under federal control “As a county with 96.5% public land (of which 48% is Wilderness or de facto wilderness), three national forests, and BLM land, we have a…
February 23, 2017 Bears Ears designation “swallows up” lifelong rancher’s water, grazing rights, private property The federal government should not have this kind of authority over a state and local people. Especially when the federal government employees are so…
February 23, 2017 Utah lawmakers to address ‘hell’ of BLM-created wild horse crisis “It is a hell,” said Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, sponsor of HCR22. “They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” Ivory…
February 22, 2017 Forest Service confiscates private property despite willingness of landowners to negotiate The government’s claim that it, and hence the public, had a right to use the property without purchasing or negotiating with the family for…
February 22, 2017 Endangered Species Act: Poster child for backwards incentives What if those incentives were reversed? What if landowners were paid to create and preserve habitat, or better yet, to raise endangered species as…
February 21, 2017 Pruitt confirmation welcome in Colorado, the epicenter of massive EPA debacles The EPA wants millions in fines from Colorado Springs for speculative environmental harm that could happen, but probably won’t, even though the city has…
February 21, 2017 Obama Antiquities Act abuses challenged by Oregon lumber companies “The monument expansion is already having an immediate impact,” said Murphy Co. President John Murphy. “The Griffen Moon Timber Sale within the expansion area…
February 20, 2017 Grazing, management by ranchers critical to environmental health in West But what does this decline mean for the health and vitality of our public lands? Like your lawn, which needs trimming and mowing, rangelands…
February 20, 2017 Arizona border ranchers want Trump wall, but leary of federal agents on land “It used to take five days to get the ranch rounded up; it takes me seven weeks now and it’s because anybody coming through…
