April 10, 2019 Beware land trusts and conservation easements According to the National Conservation Easement Database, an organization that gathers and shares information about easements in the U.S., more than 27 million acres…
January 14, 2019 Conservation Easements and Land Trusts are subverting private property rights There have been encroachments on private property over the past one hundred plus years, but now we are seeing a steady army of those…
December 3, 2016 Conservation or a Trojan Horse putting more private lands into federal control? Many Western farmers and ranchers have become hooked on the CRP and if environmentalists have their way the program may soon have permanent restrictions…
October 12, 2016 What to do about growing conflicts over range lands in the West: Part 3 The lack of well-defined and transferable federal grazing rights presents serious obstacles to resolving rangeland disputes in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner. These…
