November 3, 2017 Trial date set for enviro charged with attempted livestock destruction, witness retaliation A hearing was held in San Juan County Court on November 2, and the dates were set for Chilcoat’s and Franklin’s criminal trials. Chilcoat…
October 28, 2017 Local voices trump outside special interests in battle over Bears Ears “We believe in the importance of protecting these sacred antiquities, but Secretary Zinke and the Trump administration rolled up their sleeves to dig in,…
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…
October 6, 2017 Antiquities Act weakens rural communities by robbing them of lands “What is needed is wholesale reform of the Antiquities Act, to return its monumental power back to where it belongs: To the people who…
October 2, 2017 Senators hope new legislation settles Utah prairie dog wars “In the nearly fifty years since it was signed into law, the ESA has done more to impede economic activity, obstruct local conservation efforts,…
September 30, 2017 Growing wild horse population may imperil Utah’s sage grouse Those declining numbers, says BLM spokeswoman Lisa Reid, put the agency in conflict with its own sage grouse management directives intended to boost the…
September 13, 2017 San Juan Freedom: Unity in a common love for the land “Events that transpired over time had only one conclusion. But as I have gotten older I have come to realize that history is about…
August 27, 2017 BLM bully Dan Love ordered agents to help him steal, distribute confiscated items The report on Love’s handling of the criminal evidence goes on to detail that more than 80 five-gallon buckets contained thousands of the marbles…
August 21, 2017 Forget the environment, power-obsessed SUWA sues to inflict pain on Utah counties [paypal_donation_button] Saul Alinsky wrote “Rules for Radicals” (a playbook for groups like SUWA). One of Alinskys truths which he accurately describes is this: Organizations that possess power are “in turn possessed by power. Obsessed with the fear…
August 18, 2017 Hypocritical enviro group sues Utah counties over monuments meeting [paypal_donation_button] The facts surrounding Shelby’s recusal show that Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance clearly lied about not having ‘a legal interest in the case,’ but…
