July 23, 2019 Move out west make sense, “BLM has never belonged in Washington” People make better decisions if they have to walk down Main Street the next day, facing the folks whose lives are affected. That is…
February 10, 2018 Shuffling the Swamp: BLM leaders shifted to other agencies in Interior reorganization Alaska Director Bud Cribley, Colorado Director Ruth Welch and New Mexico Director Amy Lueders are among as many as 50 BLM and other Interior…
September 2, 2017 Beyond Wildfires: Why the Forest Service needs serious reforms We need a plan to address the landscape when a fire comes, before the fire burns. This way there is no confusion on where or how…
August 25, 2017 How environmental regulations are turning farmers into criminals for farming Duarte drew the government’s ire because a bureaucrat happened to drive by his property during his plowing and mistook it for “deep ripping” which,…
August 2, 2017 How this NOAA agent defended a farmer against overzealous feds in ESA case [paypal_donation_button] The farmer explained that he asked federal biologists how to fix the problem and they told him they could not help him unless…
May 26, 2017 Natural Resources head moves to bring more local control to land, resource policies “Our experience has been that the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] planners hold very few public meetings where information is given, but not exchanged,”…
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 4, 2017 EPA employees using encrypted messaging to skirt open records laws? A conservative watchdog group filed an open-records request with the EPA on Thursday demanding the agency explain whether its employees are using encrypted messaging…
December 15, 2016 Six Western counties take Obama to court over exclusionary BLM planning rule The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Utah, involves Kane County, Big Horn County, Wyo.; Chaves County, New Mexico; Custer County,…
