November 21, 2017 Oregon water rights lawsuit against BLM may be headed to Supreme Court Meanwhile, the BLM would revoke the 1,400 additional AUMS as their water rights were restored. While they initially agreed to this arrangement, the Whites…
October 31, 2017 Sage Grouse are winning, no thanks to the federal government “…federal government under the Obama administration insisted on managing Greater Sage Grouse recovery with a Washington, D.C., one-size-fits-all approach that fails miserably to address…
October 29, 2017 Enviros use regulations to criminalize ordinary agricultural activities Sometimes those mistakes may be embarrassing, like when EPA threatened Andy Johnson and his family with $20 million in fines based on an errant…
October 4, 2017 ‘Wilderness-hungry environmentalists’ negate true purpose of public lands After the president acts on Zinke’s review and the wilderness-hungry environmentalists hike into courtrooms, Congress should go to work reforming legislation in ways that…
September 17, 2017 Maine leads charge in ‘food sovereignty’ movement In other words, like many – if not most – government bureaus, the US Department of Agriculture effectively regulates to the benefit of large…
September 6, 2017 Alaska sues feds to stop overreaching Obama-era wildlife management rules The State of Alaska is among several parties with lawsuits pending challenging U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service efforts to override…
August 25, 2017 How environmental regulations are turning farmers into criminals for farming Duarte drew the government’s ire because a bureaucrat happened to drive by his property during his plowing and mistook it for “deep ripping” which,…
August 24, 2017 Utah Congressman to dig deep into misconduct of BLM agent Dan Love At the time the February report was released, the national office released a statement acknowledging the allegations were being taken seriously but indicating that…
August 14, 2017 Fed’s amphibian ‘critical habitat’ designation at odds with California ag interests [paypal_donation_button] …timber harvests will be impacted, further damaging already-struggling businesses; cattlemen in the region will be forced to cut back grazing by 50 percent,…
August 2, 2017 How this NOAA agent defended a farmer against overzealous feds in ESA case [paypal_donation_button] The farmer explained that he asked federal biologists how to fix the problem and they told him they could not help him unless…
