January 19, 2019 With Congress in paralysis, Trump takes wildfire management into his own hands The era of powerful presidents and weak congresses is clearly not over, with a Congress too divided to decide anything. This month a new…
January 16, 2019 Farmers Under Fire: Trial Lawyers’ Attack on Agriculture “On paper it looks like they’re suing Smithfield Foods, but the farmer is the one on trial,” Overman said. “Once the trial is over…
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…
January 13, 2019 Lee recruits Romney in fight to protect Utah from Antiquities Act abuses “Rural Americans want what all Americans want: a dignified decent-paying job, a family to love and support, and a healthy community whose future is…
January 11, 2019 Alarmist paper uses “climate change” to push international Communism The scientists warned the global warming tipping point to an uninhabitable “hothouse Earth” was 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. “Fundamental societal changes” to…
January 10, 2019 Trump Admin asks Supreme Court to determine if groundwater is federally-regulated The Justice Department yesterday recommended the high court decide whether the landmark environmental law applies to pollution that travels through groundwater before reaching federally…
January 7, 2019 Government shutdown makes the case for state control of national parks and monuments The federal government, on the other hand, has no skin in the game when it comes to shutting down monuments and national parks thousands…
January 4, 2019 BLM uses Nature Conservancy deals to gobble up private lands As long as there is a LWCF, BLM will have the financial wherewithal to gobbling up rural land, in the West and elsewhere. The…
December 31, 2018 New Mexico county using cages to protect kids from aggressive Mexican gray wolves In Catron County, New Mexico, aggressive Mexican gray wolves are terrorizing residents. Here wolves are killing pets in front yards in broad daylight, and…
December 29, 2018 Colorado energy man may take Zinke’s place as Interior chief “He has more experience in that building working on these issues than any predecessor,” Jon Hrobsky, an attorney who worked with Bernhardt in President…