October 25, 2017 Environmentalist-driven policies are destroying forests, agricultural lands “Time and again, we see vivid boundaries between the young, healthy, growing forests managed by state, local, and private landholders, and the choked, dying,…
September 15, 2017 New Mexico county suffers while BLM stalls drilling permits The BLM had 2,802 such applications pending as of Jan. 31, 152 in the Farmington office. Each applicant paid a nonrefundable $9,610 processing fee…
September 9, 2017 Why D.C. management of lands and resources is bad for the West This is not news to people in the West, whose communities are surrounded by federal lands, and whose natural resources are under the control…
August 9, 2017 Western leaders applaud Interior’s rollback of Obama-era methane rule [paypal_donation_button] “[T]he BLM believes that the 2015 final rule unnecessarily burdens industry with compliance costs and information requirements that are duplicative of regulatory programs…
August 1, 2017 Is this Colorado university conducting a ‘migration study’ or a public lands push poll? [paypal_donation_button] [The poll] fails to address other factors you would think are important to a ‘rural migration survey,’ such as; did you relocate to…
June 18, 2017 ‘Sagebrush Rebellion’ attorney, Karen Budd-Falen, in running to head up BLM Budd-Falen is well-known in the West for her work representing ranchers and is seen by some observers as a hero of the Sagebrush Rebellion,…
May 9, 2017 Federal lands management is failing, here are some innovative solutions Targeted reforms to existing management policies could provide local managers with greater freedom and flexibility to implement creative, locally responsive management solutions while remaining…
April 21, 2017 Representatives of the Range: Who are RAO and PLC? “I had a sad experience with my ranch, not knowing my rights. I trusted the federal employees, but they completely deceived us. This federal…
April 4, 2017 Trump’s DOI Secretary ends coal moratorium, opens way for oil and gas renaissance “Secretarial Order 3348 overturns the 2016 moratorium on all new coal leases on federal land and ends the programmatic environmental impacts statement that was…
March 16, 2017 If you want to protect forests, you must harvest trees You want to save a forest? Buy wood products and plant trees. Those are ways to ensure that overgrown forests are properly managed and…
