May 1, 2022 Bears Ears and the Babylon Allotment: Co-management or co-negligence? Unlike cattle and sheep ranchers who hold grazing permits which they must diligently maintain and improve, and vigorously defend when the time comes to…
October 4, 2018 BLM hikes mining claim permit fees by 30 percent “…many miners will wind up losing their claims, which are a unique form of property, simply because they don’t read the Federal Register every…
April 18, 2018 Good, Bad or Ugly? Interior releases list of first-year accomplishments The Interior Department issued a press release touting its accomplishments during year one. Free Range Report invites you to consider the list and share…
April 16, 2018 Trump considering repeal of counterproductive endangered species rule It’s probably an esoteric issue to most Americans, but to landowners and businesses, primarily in the Western U.S., the “blanket” extension of ESA protections…
April 1, 2018 EPA’s Pruitt scraps Obama era ‘secret science’ “EPA regulators and agency-funded researchers have become accustomed to producing unaccountable, dodgy science to advance a political agenda,” Steve Milloy, author of JunkScience.com and…
January 6, 2018 Is fighting ‘climate change’ worth sacrificing modern civilization? As the Washington Post wrote this week, “The world is turning more and more to renewable sources of energy… to fight climate change. But…
January 5, 2018 Colorado rancher, legislator will introduce ‘COORS’ bill to protect beef consumers In 2015, President Obama signed the Omnibus Bill which ordered the US Department of Agriculture to stop enforcing Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) regulations….
November 24, 2017 Zinke’s Interior upends Obama era anti-domestic energy policies The Department of Interior announced it is rescinding a policy implemented under former President Barack Obama placing large areas of public lands off limits…
November 13, 2017 Congressional trucking mandates could harm livestock industry Unloading cattle at facilities midway along a long haul has the possibility to cross contaminate with other cattle. This poses a major health risk…
October 19, 2017 BLM offers ‘flexible’ grazing permits, hoping to improve range conditions The Bureau of Land Management is taking applications from Western states to test outcome-based grazing, which enables ranchers to manage according to current conditions…
