March 2, 2018 Utah State legislator gives enviros eye poke with proposed highway name “We’re very, very thankful for President Trump what he did in downsizing the national monument and bringing attention to the fact we can still…
February 26, 2018 Utah House passes resolution to exempt state from future land grabs “WHEREAS, although the Antiquities Act has been used to protect a great many of the United States’ natural wonders and archeological artifacts, the act…
February 24, 2018 BLM neglect causes massive damage to Colorado man’s property The BLM passed him from employee to employee and office to office but never took any action to remove or stabilize the shed. In…
February 20, 2018 Is Zinke ‘Migration Corridors’ order the Endangered Species Act on steroids? Some in the West who share an insight born of their having lived for years with abuses sanctioned by the federal government’s enforcement of…
February 8, 2018 Utah’s Noel introduces bill creating review process for federal designations Utah’s ongoing national monuments controversies may help jump-start Representative Noel’s bill. The painful and divisive conflicts over Utah’s unpopular Grand Staircase-Escalante (Clinton 1996) and…
February 6, 2018 Flashback 2013: Wolves kill 176 sheep on Idaho ranch Despite an abundance of data showing wolf reintroduction into regions where they have not existed for decades or centuries–if at all–is harmful to wildlife,…
February 6, 2018 Patagonia ‘public lands’ campaign all about subsidizing elite industrial tourism When it came to BLM lands, each recreation visitor cost $1.49 but brought in only $0.31 for the agency. The shortfalls are borne by…
February 1, 2018 Utah’s Choice: Restrictive national park vs sprawling national monuments Okerlund is sponsoring SCR8 in support of legislation before Congress sponsored by Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, that establishes a national park and two national…
January 27, 2018 Cliven Bundy sues feds for declaration that public lands belong to the state In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Clark County District Court, Bundy claimed that former President Barack Obama’s late 2016 establishment of the Gold Butte…
January 22, 2018 SCOTUS to consider federal seizure of private property for frog protection The Fish and Wildlife Service wants a 1,500-acre tract of privately owned land protected as a potential breeding and living space for the frogs,…
