Federal wildland fire management lacks a single focal point of responsibility for policy leadership and accountability for cost controls. While executive departments and agencies (agencies) have implemented Executive Order 13855 of December 21, 2018 (Promoting Active Management of America’s Forests,…
Astonishingly, many federal agencies — not just Department of Interior — have for years chosen to ignore the Congressional Review Act requirements when imposing rules on the states, industry, local governments, and the public. For decades, federal management agencies have…
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is planning a major reorganization of the Department of the Interior (DOI). He is currently considering moving at least three DOI agencies’ headquarters outside Washington, D.C. GOP lawmakers on the House Committee on Natural Resources, which…
...timber harvests will be impacted, further damaging already-struggling businesses; cattlemen in the region will be forced to cut back grazing by 50 percent, which would wipe out many beef producers altogether; and sheep ranchers will also be under threat of…
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…
The ban, which includes cheap bullets and common fishing tackle, can be repealed by the Trump administration and was immediately condemned as an attack on outdoors people and rural life. "This directive is irresponsible and driven not out of sound…