January 11, 2017 OPINION: How does Zinke stack up as Interior Secretary nominee? After lecturing Trump on the abuse of executive power, President Obama exercised his executive power to set aside over 1.5 million acres as the…
January 7, 2017 COMMENTARY: Punish criminals, but free the Hammonds By coincidence, the original judge in the Hammonds’ case found a mandatory five-year sentence overly punitive given the circumstances of their crimes. The Hammonds…
January 1, 2017 Happy New Year: Obama land grabs can be reversed by Congress, Trump Administration Mr. Obama has repeatedly abused his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare vast new national monuments, including on the high seas. This week’s…
December 28, 2016 BLM dumps ‘experimental’ survey method on Alaska that will be costly for state, private property owners State officials said Tuesday the new system will pass huge costs to the state and private landowners. They said GPS coordinates are considered temporary…
December 16, 2016 Drain the Swamp: Federal agricultural subsidies, cronyism, handouts Imagine an industry in which taxpayers provide handouts to multimillion-dollar businesses when they don’t generate as much revenue as they hoped. Or imagine the…
December 10, 2016 Western Colorado counties hope to halt restrictive BLM planning rule The BLM this month announced that the rule was final and on Monday, Garfield County agreed to spend as much as $40,000 with the…
December 7, 2016 Could Utah’s Mike Noel purge BLM of its bureaucratic rot The lands upon which Noel’s constituents live and work have been the target of broad and destructive federal land seizures, including Clinton’s 1.7 million…
December 6, 2016 Obama Dakota Pipeline ban likely to be reversed by Trump Administration Out-of-state environmental activists broke out into public cheers during a rally after the U.S. Department of the Army, staffed by President Obama’s progressive team,…
December 6, 2016 EDITORIAL: ‘On-the-ground’ solutions better than strong-armed monument designation Selective wilderness designations, river protections and broad prohibitions on mining would be strategic, consequential steps Congress could take to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands, the…
December 5, 2016 Trump EPA plans leave top bureaucrat ‘anxious’ about transition Trump targeted EPA for criticism on the campaign trail, pledging to roll its authority back to the states, and has questioned the science behind…
