January 21, 2019 Utah challenges federal control of western lands An argument could be made that federal ownership of major swaths of 12 Western states effectively deprives them of the same sovereignty as the…
March 8, 2018 Utah demands compensation for revenues sucked up by federal lands Ivory said “in lieu” should mean “equal to.” However, he said Utah makes more in two months from tax revenue on the taxable land…
March 6, 2018 Move it West: BLM has no business being in D.C., literally! One important reason for moving BLM headquarters to the West is more than 99 percent of the land the Bureau manages is in western…
August 24, 2017 Rural West oppressed by heavy-handed Antiquities Act politics The driving force of this trend can largely be attributed to ulterior motives. Instead of focusing on the protection of specific historic, cultural and…
June 6, 2017 Antiquities Act abuses are more about power over public lands than protection Recent presidents have all but ignored important stipulations in the Antiquities Act that are supposed to restrict the president’s power in key ways. The…
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…
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…
November 17, 2016 House Energy Subcommittee hears bill giving states control over energy development “Rather than continuing to allow faceless bureaucrats in DC to determine what is best for both western and eastern states under a one-size-fits-all regulatory…
September 23, 2016 VIDEO: Western states’ inequality by the numbers “If you are not from one of the Western states, you need to understand what that means. That’s all land that’s off the local…
