Federal lands are, on average, in worse environmental condition than private lands and produce much less economic activity. That’s because management of federal lands, which comprise 27 percent of the American land mass, is largely based on the destructive notion…
...parasitic arrangements like that between Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Partners and BLM, where public dollars are used to fund extreme special interests' agendas, remain a threat to Americans in states where lands and resources fall under federal control. By Marjorie…
This sweeping mandate ensures that virtually every square inch of land within the boundaries is subject to the scrutiny of Park Service bureaucrats and their managing partners. Tom DeWeese American Policy Center NOT ONE INCH… THE BATTLE CRY FOR PROPERTY…
Cliven and Carol are not in the happiest of moods these days; the men left behind weigh heavy on each of them. “The thought of 'em men still living out their days in prison just breaks my heart.” Mike Stickler…
Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte and Senator Steve Daines have now introduced bills to release wilderness study areas across Montana. Their bills cover 29 different WSAs, because as Gianforte said, “Nearly 700,000 acres of Montana’s public lands have been in limbo…
The BLM also sought to seriously limit anyone and everyone’s access to the so-called public land, and persuaded the FAA to implement a No-fly Zone. The BLM also sought to seriously restrict anyone and everyone’s First Amendment Rights, including freedom…
Since February 4, when mineral claims on the land could be filed, three new claims have been filed. Two of them are not by mining interests, but appear to be publicity stunts or media actions. Morgan Sjogren, an outdoor writer,…
Amazingly, astonishingly, earlier this year, just after President Trump used his executive authority to reconfigure two massive national monuments in Utah, 'spectacular,' 'major cashes' of fossils in the very areas trimmed away from the original Clinton/Obama designations were suddenly thought…
The House/Senate versions’ forestry measures embrace Euro-UN-Agenda 21 sustainable forest management principles, plus United Nations Indigenous Peoples Rights policies that would supersede the U.S. Constitution—while implementing unscientific climate change and sustainability objectives... Although the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2016 has been shelved…
Ranchers and farmers in North Texas are angered over the prospect of losing their land and homes through an eminent domain taking for a new reservoir. One rancher estimates that 200 people will lose their property while the water will…