April 8, 2017 Forest Service blows up small dams with high explosives to ‘restore creeks to natural state’ “When the main dam was blown up,” May said, “it was a shock.” May also questioned Forest Service statements that residents several years ago…
April 6, 2017 Trump orders USDA to open conservation lands to grazing for wildfire-devastated ranchers President Donald Trump directed the department to open emergency grazing in certain lands in the Conservation Reserve Protection program in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma…
April 1, 2017 Will USDA lift grazing restrictions on lush Conservation Reserve lands to help Kansas ranchers? At issue is the cattle that survived the wildfires but lost their pastures. Ranchers and others say some of the grass on CRP land…
March 30, 2017 Kansas Natural Resources Coalition: Property rights powerhouse from the Heartland Although KNRC’s roots are in Kansas–the middle of America both literally and figuratively–they hope to have impact far beyond the geographical Heartland. Having recently expanded their…
March 27, 2017 Please, Mr Trump, don’t let wildfire-devastated farmers be ‘forgotten men and women’ American farmers are the backbone of this nation. They work quietly and are too often forgotten by the other 98 percent of Americans. They…
March 24, 2017 Due to enviro regs, California farmers get only 65% of water allocations despite record wet year And while you ponder that question perhaps you can also take a guess as to who didn’t have to take a haircut on their water allocations…
March 21, 2017 President Trump proclaims March 21 National Agriculture Day “American farmers and ranchers are the heart and soul of America and they represent the determined, self-reliant character of our Nation. We are proud…
March 21, 2017 Government regulations, big corporations killing off family ranches As older ranchers see children leave for other lines of work, Boone said the ranches that families are forced to sell are often absorbed…
March 20, 2017 Ranchers facing existential threat in wake of catastrophic wildfires Ranching families across this countryside are now facing an existential threat to a way of life that has sustained them since homesteading days: years…
March 20, 2017 Kansas wildfire relief impeded by rigid federal rules, red tape …one rancher even told him he ran out of ammunition shooting cattle injured in the fire. “They are shooting new baby calves, cows they…
