March 5, 2017 Utah ranchers pushed off public lands by restrictive federal parks, monuments Just like humans, cattle have a personal bubble – a flight zone. Phillips can prove this to many a camper after trying to move…
February 15, 2017 Too Big: Effort to shrink Grand Staircase/Escalante NM gets bi-partisan support At 1.88 million acres, Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is larger than the combined footprints of the state’s “Mighty 5” national parks and Cedar…
February 8, 2017 Trump can reverse egregious Antiquities Acts edicts by doing 2 simple things That President Trump has the authority to vacate the actions of his predecessors is without question. Just as no Congress can bind a future…
January 28, 2017 Movement to rescind federal monuments takeovers ignites in Utah legislature Noel believes the appropriate size of the monument should be no more than 500,000 acres and that multiple laws exist on the books to…
January 16, 2017 Will Bears Ears go the way of Grand Staircase/Escalante, or can it be reversed President-elect Trump has agreed to look into reversing the Bears Ears National Monument designation, all or in part, and he has the authority to do so. But…
December 2, 2016 National monuments should not be one-man shows, must include local input Pearce points out “the Antiquities Act requires that a president designate the smallest possible footprint in order to achieve the desired environmental preservation” and…
September 29, 2016 Garfield County Utah: The case for restoring locally-sourced government Just 9 years following President Clinton’s secretive executive taking of nearly 2 million acres in central Utah, Garfield County Commissioner Maloy Dodds testified in front of…
September 12, 2016 Utah ranchers’ grazing rights threatened by national monument Why San Juan County ranchers oppose another national monument in Bears Ears posted by Sutherland Institute Many ranchers living in the region of the Colorado…
