October 8, 2016 Bears Ears, PLI controversies show Congress must stop executive land grabs Obama’s legacy is shutting off land to free use by American citizens has hurt economic development on land and sea, and the American people…
October 6, 2016 Forest Service to halt mining in Okanogan County The U.S. Forest Service is taking steps to prevent future mining at about 340,000 acres of federal lands in Washington’s Methow Valley. Leslie Weldon, deputy…
September 29, 2016 What role does Congress have in wild horse crisis? Congress must get serious about the West’s wild horses “We had to do something,” one frustrated board member said. “We couldn’t just sit on…
September 23, 2016 VIDEO: Western states’ inequality by the numbers “If you are not from one of the Western states, you need to understand what that means. That’s all land that’s off the local…
September 18, 2016 Statehood Equality: Why the West is Being Cheated by GEORGE R. WENTZ JR & JOHN W. HOWARD as published by National Review Washington curtails the ability of local governments to generate tax…
September 16, 2016 Forest Service puts 32,000 miles of roads off-limits to public Nearly One-Third of Forest Service Road Mileage Closed in Montana by Ron Catlett Media Trackers ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS A report last week to the Montana…
September 14, 2016 Colorado ranchers unite to defend grazing rights on federal lands Grazing allotment owners unite to assert rights “A new private property rights organization is gearing up to represent the interests of ranchers who graze…
September 9, 2016 VIDEO: Property Rights on Western Ranches “Although the Constitution and specific federal statutes require ranchers be compensated for the value of their property interests when government officials cancel grazing permits…
September 8, 2016 What’s behind media smears of ranchers victimized by federal actions? Welcome to the New Normal — a Land of Labels, Distortions, and Misinformation — Seven Realities Nobody Wants to Talk About, Starting with No….
September 8, 2016 Part 2: The Goading of The West In the Crossfires of Constitutional Confusion OPINION: Jacen Brewer Free Range Report Contributor Part 2/2 “Undoubtedly, guns aimed by a government at its own citizenry is telling of amplified tensions….