“The Antiquities Act has been abused to designate 'monuments' that grossly exceed the scale envisioned by Congress,” Gibson said. “These land grabs set aside vast areas of federal lands for the purpose of landscape preservation and elimination of resource use…
Onlookers are confused as they watch employees of federal lands – whether it is the BLM in Oregon or the US Forest Service in South Dakota – light matches that start burns on federal grazing permits with bought-and-paid-for grazing rights…
"I am writing as a fellow attorney who, in the course of my career, has had a number of occasions from time to time over the last nearly two decades to encounter and appraise her tireless efforts to help facilitate…
“It’s time that we do something more than just talk about freedom and about defending our Constitution.” ~LaVoy Finicum~ posted by Marjorie Haun Was LaVoy Finicum correct about his property rights? Dr. Angus McIntosh contends, as did LaVoy Finicum, that…
The Engineer’s office has begun issuing licenses pursuant his order to ranchers that confirm the ranchers’ longstanding beneficial use of water to sustain their livestock. Last year, certain watering areas were closed off in Lincoln National Forest after a potentially…
Korry Lewis, a Wyoming attorney representing the ranchers, argues that the BLM is basing its assessment of current conditions on an evaluation done in 2013, a drought year. Dennis Webb Grand Junction Daily Sentinel SILT — Cattle ranchers pressed the…
The federal government should not have this kind of authority over a state and local people. Especially when the federal government employees are so influenced and guided by well-funded special interest environmental groups. Open letter by Sandy L. Johnson* (see…
In two different opinion pieces in the Durango Herald, Dan Parkinson and John Mumma mislead readers about our sheep allotments on a very small part of the Weminuche Wilderness. They both insinuated that bighorn sheep had been killed by Colorado Parks…
"The OIG Report details several violations of federal ethics regulations, misuse of government property, misuse of a government position, and 'a lack of candor when interviewed,' " Navarro wrote in a ruling Wednesday, "At a minimum, (defendants) may use this…
A year ago, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, LaVoy Finicum, and their friends arrived in Oregon and camped at the Malheur Refuge to protest the November 2015 imprisonment of Dwight and Steven Hammond on federal charges of terrorism and conspiracy. What…