April 6, 2017 Trump orders USDA to open conservation lands to grazing for wildfire-devastated ranchers President Donald Trump directed the department to open emergency grazing in certain lands in the Conservation Reserve Protection program in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma…
April 1, 2017 Will USDA lift grazing restrictions on lush Conservation Reserve lands to help Kansas ranchers? At issue is the cattle that survived the wildfires but lost their pastures. Ranchers and others say some of the grass on CRP land…
March 20, 2017 Ranchers facing existential threat in wake of catastrophic wildfires Ranching families across this countryside are now facing an existential threat to a way of life that has sustained them since homesteading days: years…
March 20, 2017 Kansas wildfire relief impeded by rigid federal rules, red tape …one rancher even told him he ran out of ammunition shooting cattle injured in the fire. “They are shooting new baby calves, cows they…
October 31, 2016 Judge restricts BLM access in Red River case, but not completely The federal judge overseeing the case of Texas landowners and others against the Bureau of Land Management made a mixed ruling Sunday that grants…
