April 25, 2017 Trump, Hatch eye rolling back 2 decades of national monument land grabs It’s worth noting that the areas targeted by Obama in his waning days, including Bears Ears, Gold Butte, Nevada (the location of the Cliven…
April 9, 2017 VIDEO: President has authority to reverse Antiquities Act designations During his term, the former president used executive actions to lock up hundreds of millions of acres on both land and sea, making them…
March 21, 2017 Bears Ears sold on the myth of tribal co-management The Navajo Nation Aneth chapter, one of the chapters closest to the monument, rejected the proposal. Many Native Americans have stood up against this…
March 17, 2017 Trump Administration to end federal land grabs Obama’s final land grab took the total acres of land seized by the federal government under his presidency to 553 million acres, more than any…
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 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 1, 2017 Environmentalist Navajo calls opponents of Bears Ears takeover “Tame Indians” A recent survey confirms the fact that an overwhelming percentage of locals and Native tribes residing in San Juan County want Bears Ears rescinded, and outspoken and well-funded environmentalist…
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…