March 2, 2017 Basalt Colorado: Sane forest management vs recreation Council members are concerned that logging-truck traffic will pose danger to the many bicyclists, campers, boat enthusiasts and anglers using Frying Pan Road. The…
March 2, 2017 Local witnesses testify of kindness, good manners of Oregon Standoff defendants “They took very good care of my place. I trusted them completely,” she said. During cross, Overton acknowledged that Patrick left her a $100…
February 27, 2017 South Dakota ranchers, farmers hit with rising property taxes based on soil type Martin said that if all tax money stayed within the county, the system might not be so bad. But since the state gets some…
February 27, 2017 Cliven Bundy’s ideas about public lands management reflected in recent legislation “Disarm the National Park Service,” the recalcitrant cowboy cried in a video played in court recently, during the ongoing trial against six people charged…
February 26, 2017 California county may owe dairy farmers $48 million for taking of private land San Bernardino County could pay $48 million for the property of one of the few remaining Chino dairy farmers after the family complained in…
February 23, 2017 Bears Ears designation “swallows up” lifelong rancher’s water, grazing rights, private property The federal government should not have this kind of authority over a state and local people. Especially when the federal government employees are so…
February 22, 2017 Forest Service confiscates private property despite willingness of landowners to negotiate The government’s claim that it, and hence the public, had a right to use the property without purchasing or negotiating with the family for…
February 20, 2017 Grazing, management by ranchers critical to environmental health in West But what does this decline mean for the health and vitality of our public lands? Like your lawn, which needs trimming and mowing, rangelands…
February 18, 2017 House Dems vote to keep ‘boot heel’ of Revenue Dept. on necks of Colorado land owners It is an article of faith that Democrats in the Colorado Capitol care nothing for the state’s farmers and ranchers, and the big-city liberals…
February 17, 2017 With timber communities at risk, Oregon counties fight Cascade-Siskiyou expansion The association sued President Donald Trump, the United States, Acting Secretary of the Interior Kevin Haugrud and the Bureau of Land Management. It asks…
