June 9, 2021 Ag groups join forces to oppose enviro lawsuit that would keep wolves on endangered list The suits seek to restore federal protection for wolves in California and the western two-thirds of Washington and Oregon, as well as the Great…
September 3, 2020 Trump’s Fish and Wildlife chief “working hard” to remove wolves from endangered species list Skipwith, echoing the Fish and Wildlife Service’s long-held policy, told the AP the wolf has “biologically recovered” and that its removal from the list…
July 21, 2020 Animals Still Die When Hunting Is Banned “…now we come back to the dirty little secret, and it shouldn’t be a secret anymore. Despite the anti-hunters’ claims that they are saving…
January 25, 2020 Judge sides with activists who claim feral horses are in danger of extinction The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service erred when it rejected a petition by an international advocacy group to list a population of wild horses…
April 15, 2018 KNRC sues U.S. Fish & Wildlife for noncompliance with Congressional Review law Astonishingly, many federal agencies — not just Department of Interior — have for years chosen to ignore the Congressional Review Act requirements when imposing…
October 29, 2017 Enviros use regulations to criminalize ordinary agricultural activities Sometimes those mistakes may be embarrassing, like when EPA threatened Andy Johnson and his family with $20 million in fines based on an errant…
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…
July 11, 2017 ESA activists dispute science showing healthy numbers of black-backed woodpecker A master’s thesis presented in May by Elizabeth Matseur of the University of Columbia-Missouri estimated a population of 2,920 black-backed woodpeckers in the Black Hills in…
July 9, 2017 Mexican Wolf: A case study in why ‘federal approach to wildlife conservation doesn’t work’ A federal system based on such lengthy processes, subject to unending challenges and appeals, is absolutely paralyzed when it comes to decision-making, never mind…
