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 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 20, 2017 Utah ranchers prove grazing plays a big role in sage grouse restoration Ranchers are sometimes given a share of the blame. But now government agencies and a major environmental organization are betting big money that ranching…
May 17, 2017 This green group finally gets that restoring a forest requires cutting down trees The restoration thinning project outside the city of Cle Elum mirrors numerous projects in forests across the U.S. West, mostly on federal public lands,…
