Hollingsworth’s residence was searched by U.S. government and state officials, dressed to the nines in assault gear, seeking to regain possession of a trail camera—the precise camera they had surreptitiously placed on his private acreage after sneaking onto his property…
Wolves for example are a vector of rabies, hydatid disease and other diseases that can cause "bodily harm" - even death. The whole measure of the law is your "good faith belief". If you're building fence and see a wolf…
Skroch said the issue has been a hot one during the session, and she worries that landowners across the state are at a "flashpoint." She fears that without some fundamental property protections, landowners will "lock the land up so tight,…
"For the first time, we are clearly defining the difference between federally protected waterways and state protected waterways. Our simpler and clearer definition would help landowners understand whether a project on their property will require a federal permit or not,…
There have been encroachments on private property over the past one hundred plus years, but now we are seeing a steady army of those who would take away our property rights. As Tom described in his book, the Conservation Easement…
As long as there is a LWCF, BLM will have the financial wherewithal to gobbling up rural land, in the West and elsewhere. The program’s future has been in limbo since September when Congress failed to reauthorize it. An attempt…
Federal lands are, on average, in worse environmental condition than private lands and produce much less economic activity. That’s because management of federal lands, which comprise 27 percent of the American land mass, is largely based on the destructive notion…
The legislative package of nine bills addresses the shortcomings of the ESA by fixing the listing process, adding framework for a clear de-listing process, addressing the petition backlog issue, removing unnecessary impediments to economic development, involving state and local input,…
This article is intended to provide an historical account of these actions and their impacts for the purpose of vindicating the many small and medium-sized farming communities nationwide whose generations-old family farming families have been devastated by these ultra vires…
In this video, which was taken in the summer of 2015, less than two weeks after the Hammonds were sentenced to prison for 'arson,' Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents were recorded setting fires which destroyed private ranch properties and…