September 7, 2017 Wildfires raging across West involve nearly 1.5 million acres Interstate 84 closed in Oregon after the Eagle Creek Fire began to spread. The highway is closed to traffic for more than 80 miles from…
September 3, 2017 Obstructionist enviro lawsuits blamed for severe Montana wildfires “It is the lawyers who are funding for these extreme environmental groups, who are having a tremendous impact, (a) devastating impact on allowing us…
August 28, 2017 Washington wolf attacks on the rise, Smackout pack implicated The fourth depredation by the Smackout pack was confirmed Aug. 24, meeting the threshold for the department to consider lethal removal. The threshold is…
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 22, 2017 Coal mines helped improve West Virginia water supplies The Tribune reported the “crash of the coal mining industry in southern West Virginia has left hundreds of residents in charge of their own…
August 16, 2017 Protection of landowner rights key to saving endangered species The statute also burdens property owners through the designation of critical habitat, which further restricts land use. Most alarmingly, the federal agency charged with implementing…
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 7, 2017 Bears Ears debate exposes real agenda of greens: Urbanizing the rural West [paypal_donation_button] Or to put it more succinctly, it’s time for the rural west to go…The ‘Old West,’ and even the ‘Original West’ —the Native…
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…
July 27, 2017 Minnesota School Trust Lands depend on mining operations to fund public schools [paypal_donation_button] Included in the federal land withdrawal are 95,000 acres of School Trust Lands that generate revenue for all Minnesota schools. With over two…
