December 7, 2016 Could Utah’s Mike Noel purge BLM of its bureaucratic rot The lands upon which Noel’s constituents live and work have been the target of broad and destructive federal land seizures, including Clinton’s 1.7 million…
December 5, 2016 Trump EPA plans leave top bureaucrat ‘anxious’ about transition Trump targeted EPA for criticism on the campaign trail, pledging to roll its authority back to the states, and has questioned the science behind…
November 26, 2016 Obama’s regulatory machine on overdrive in final weeks This oppressive agenda, and the audacity with which it was executed, was on the minds of voters and apparently rejected on Nov 8. With…
November 8, 2016 National Monuments: The New Feudalism In areas designated national monuments, productive activities are heavily restricted or even banned. These are precisely the sorts of restrictions that federal agencies have…
November 7, 2016 Is BLM transfer of land to National Parks Service legitimate? “The most common complaint I hear from locally elected officials in my district is that they are rarely consulted, rarely respected and often bypassed…
November 1, 2016 Proposed Cascade-Siskiyou Monument will devastate local communities If this recent attempt moves ahead, it will have devastating effects on the local communities. Also keep in mind that over 50,000 of these…
October 30, 2016 Locals fear Owyhee monument would ‘inflame’ deep wounds in Oregon communities In an open letter to President Obama, who has authority to declare a new monument and has done so several times in recent months,…
October 15, 2016 In land grab schemes, rich progressives push Feds to lock up millions of acres Its appetite for land is insatiable: millions will be spent, not improving visitor facilities, but acquiring land and demanding a larger park, after all…
October 13, 2016 Radical Environmentalism driving Obama’s national monument obsession Obama’s monument declarations in Hawaii and beyond are not motivated by a desire to protect lands threatened with imminent destruction; it is about building…
October 3, 2016 Locals oppose monument designation for Lost Coast Headlands Lost Coast Headlands face road troubles and resident disapproval on becoming national monument The Lost Coast Headlands was one of three Humboldt County locations…
