April 12, 2018 Western lands stuck in Limbo due to Congress’ inaction on ‘wilderness study areas’ Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte and Senator Steve Daines have now introduced bills to release wilderness study areas across Montana. Their bills cover 29 different…
February 4, 2018 Opening up land to ‘homestead’ Americans displaced by natural disasters What if, instead of spending money to rebuild in the same disaster-prone places, we offered land to build somewhere else? That is the question…
January 15, 2018 Tired of federal control of lands? ‘Go wet, young man!’ Today, nearly all the world’s inhabitable land is either privately owned or held by governments, no longer available for homesteading. But what if people…
January 6, 2018 Is fighting ‘climate change’ worth sacrificing modern civilization? As the Washington Post wrote this week, “The world is turning more and more to renewable sources of energy… to fight climate change. But…
December 13, 2017 Era of federal ‘sue and settle’ deals is over, and the greens are freaked About 20 years ago, government agencies stopped collecting data on these settlements, so they could no longer report to Congress on the amount of…
October 9, 2017 Nanny-state Forest Service has priorities all out of whack The lack of management that has caused the death and destruction of massive swaths of forestland is not entirely the Forest Service’s fault, of…
September 23, 2017 Get feds out of the real estate business Mind you, we’re not talking about national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, or BLM land. The “public lands,” as westerners understand that term, comprise some…
