May 11, 2017 Monuments review gives ranchers, landowners hope for greater freedom, control McIntosh believes the review needs to be taken a step further to include all prior landowner rights. “Most of these national monument designations have…
May 10, 2017 Multiple use in Bears Ears will provide better wilderness experience than restrictive monument Timber has been clear cut to make ski runs, lifts and cables have been installed to access the tops of the mountains, the river…
May 8, 2017 San Juan County’s largest Navajo chapter formally opposes Bears Ears Monument Named after a pair of mesas which dominate the high desert landscape, Bears Ears is arid, and rich in minerals and fossil fuels, but…
May 6, 2017 Is Trump monuments review a step towards greater state, local control of public lands? The order directs the the Secretary to “consult and coordinate with the Governors of States affected by monument designations or other relevant officials of…
May 5, 2017 Patagonia et al. looking for profits and subsidies from Antiquities Act land grabs Corporations like Patagonia, however, are raking it in. The outdoor recreation industry generates about $120 billion per year in revenues. As more wilderness areas…
May 2, 2017 House Natural Resources reviews Antiquities Act abuses, possible reversals “Traditional Utah Navajo people are not magazine environmentalists but are real stewards of the land whose interests will be destroyed by a Bears Ears…
April 28, 2017 Bears Ears: The last straw in monuments abuses That law was intended to prevent the looting of archaeological and Native American structures and objects, and it gave the federal government an expeditious…
April 28, 2017 Antiquities Act Review: Restoring land, hope, and economic freedom in the West The grazing allotment used by the Finicums, until the BLM kicked them out, is covered by the Grand Canyon Parashant monument. Therefore, if that…
April 27, 2017 Ryan Bundy sues feds for more than 100 ‘retaliatory’ strip searches while in custody …Bundy describes himself as “a forty-four year old man; happily married with eight healthy children” and says he has been repeatedly forced into solitary…
April 25, 2017 Trump, Hatch eye rolling back 2 decades of national monument land grabs It’s worth noting that the areas targeted by Obama in his waning days, including Bears Ears, Gold Butte, Nevada (the location of the Cliven…
