June 25, 2019 State control of western lands is best for local economies and the environment States protect the environment at a better cost to citizens. State land managers fulfill all the same environmental laws a federal land manager would….
January 21, 2019 Utah challenges federal control of western lands An argument could be made that federal ownership of major swaths of 12 Western states effectively deprives them of the same sovereignty as the…
October 16, 2017 Utah wildfires reignite debate over constitutional state control of public lands State-held lands tend to be managed more for resource extraction and economic development than federal lands, for historical, legal, and political reasons, says Eric…
July 17, 2017 House Resources Committee mulls land bills removing federal roadblocks from local communities H.R. 1547 rectifies a longstanding, unfulfilled agreement from 1989 between the City of Tucson, Arizona (City) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The…
April 30, 2017 Enabling Act debt basis for BLM transfer of 2,120 acres to State of Montana This most recent part of the process began in 2015 when Montana gave the BLM a wish list identifying more parcels than was necessary…
April 14, 2017 Bills to transfer federal control of lands to local stewardship progress through Congress “Sadly, these bills are necessary because the federal government has not recently been that good neighbor, and ideological zealots in our land management agencies…
March 13, 2017 Utah takes steps to advance local stewardship of lands within the state Public land ranchers won’t have to worry about their grazing fees skyrocketing or their allotments being sold to developers — if and when Utah…
February 27, 2017 Cliven Bundy’s ideas about public lands management reflected in recent legislation “Disarm the National Park Service,” the recalcitrant cowboy cried in a video played in court recently, during the ongoing trial against six people charged…
February 18, 2017 Fact checking Utah’s corporate environmentalist exit …the governor won’t be hurt. The Legislature won’t be hurt. The congressional delegation won’t be hurt. In fact, they’ll be liberated. No longer will…
February 17, 2017 Oregon lawmakers step up to consider state authority over lands Wilson and other rural Republicans pointed out that their districts are overwhelmingly composed of federal land. They said cutbacks in logging due to overregulation had limited…
