March 11, 2017 Endangered Species Act: Stories of Abuse …the current use of the ESA is incredibly expensive to American tax payers and our economy. As of December 2014, the average listing cost…
March 6, 2017 Worried about carbon dioxide emissions? Logging is the answer! The more concerned people are about climate change, the more they should be interested in active management to restore forest health. Yet many of…
March 4, 2017 How Trump can drain the EPA swamp Unnecessary environmental regulation imposes incalculable costs in foregone innovation and economic growth, and the loss of private property rights and liberty. Despite dramatic gains…
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 1, 2017 Why Trump’s termination of WOTUS is good for America The Clean Water Act itself makes it expressly clear that states are supposed to play a leading role when it comes to water policy….
February 22, 2017 Endangered Species Act: Poster child for backwards incentives What if those incentives were reversed? What if landowners were paid to create and preserve habitat, or better yet, to raise endangered species as…
January 9, 2017 EPA sends 1,115,539 pounds of toxic metals into Lake Powell, pats itself on back for clean rivers Those toxic metals are now likely sitting at the bottom of Lake Powell where they could be stirred up by future storms and surges…
December 26, 2016 Reversal of fortune? Small miner hopeful Trump will veto EPA block on Alaska mine In February 2014, the EPA took the unusual action of blocking a mine before the project owner applied for a development permit. Trump win…
December 18, 2016 Attack on Western Colorado: Obama denies Jordan Cove LNG Project “…the FERC denial is not based on environmental concerns. The Jordan Cove project has exceeded the environmental regulations. So, the federal government had to…
December 7, 2016 Federal forest policies one big reason for worsening wildfires across U.S. Over 60 years of total fire suppression policy led to more intense fires that are more dangerous and difficult to extinguish. The cost of fire suppression, unsurprisingly,…
