The debate over public lands is easily resolved by applying the 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the States or to the people. Phil Lyman Republican Candidate for Utah House District 73 Three…
What if those incentives were reversed? What if landowners were paid to create and preserve habitat, or better yet, to raise endangered species as efficiently as they raise livestock? What if landowners knew that if a species’ population fell below…
"Some of the horse groups tend to portray this as a horses-versus-cows issue, and it's really not," Magagna said. "It's a resource management issue and the damage that's done is equally harmful to the horses themselves as it is to…
Wolves attack two more calves in N.E. Washington Two more calves have been attacked in northeastern Washington, including one by the wolfpack targeted for elimination by wildlife managers, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Wednesday. WDFW investigators confirmed…
Fallout from Forest Service damage to Trail of Tears escalates The fallout continues after the construction more than two years ago of 35 earthen berms along almost a mile of the Trail of Tears in the Cherokee National Forest. A…
"Photo ops with tribal children in native dress, pleasant pronouncements, and end-of-term self-congratulatory press releases, cannot hide the fact that federal nanny-statism along with Obama's confiscatory federal land policies have made poverty, division, and disenfranchisement within Native American communities much worse." On September 26,…
"Monticello, a largely agricultural and ranching town of about 2,000 located in San Juan County, now finds its wind farm in the midst of a legal battle which may threaten the future of the giant turbines." Free Range Report…
State vet: Declare horse population an emergency by FALLON GODWIN-BUTLER Elko Daily Free Press “Dr. Goicoechea couldn’t have hit it any better on the head. We’ve got a disaster out here on the open range,” said Assemblyman John Ellison. “People should…
Commentary: BLM sage grouse guidelines will bury land users in paperwork Thomas Mitchell from Elko Daily Free Press The Bureau of Land Management this past week issued eight guideline memos instructing federal land managers in 11 Western states as to…
Rural landowners assert role in fighting wildfires by Chad Sokol Spokesman-Review Wildfires in rural Washington have again brought complaints from farmers and property owners about their role in protecting their land. The fire in Valleyford has been out for a…