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Ryan Zinke proposes moving agencies out west

Our thoughts on Interior Secretary Zinke moving the departments/agencies tasked with managing our public lands out of Washington DC is pretty simple. We’d rather have these folks be available to the folks affected by their management and be in the heart of the lands they manage………..rather than be at the doorstep of the lobbyists and […]

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Trump rolls back restrictions on accessing public lands

As most of you can imagine, we get a ton of emails and calls on new bills, laws and movements by enviro groups to further take away the public lands from you…..who owns the lands. Right now there are attacks in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California to further restrict either access to these lands, or […]

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Government ignored Native Americans on National Monument issues

During the Obama Administration, environmental groups lobbied endlessly to have millions of acres of your public lands designated as “National Monuments”. Part of their claims were that Native Americans wanted this. Well, not so much……   http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/11/08/utah-navajos-say-monument-designations-not-needed-to-protect-sites/ Or for the complete article, click

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RS2477 and YOUR roads

We have been talking about RS2477 (Revised Statute 2477) quite a bit lately and encourage you to read Marjorie Haun’s outstanding piece on the subject here.   These roads, and the same one’s our government continually tries to close, MUST remain open:   http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/07/31/utah-rs-2477-roads-court-victory-could-impact-other-cases-throughout-the-west/ Or click

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Barstow/BLM and unity

About the Barstow/BLM road closures and uniting to fight tyranny:   We are going to provide you with some factual evidence on this issue, court cases, WEMO plan documents (the documents they claim gives them the authority to close the roads) and other contact information of how you can make a difference.   Have you […]

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Outstanding article on how the environmental groups steal your money

Equal Access to Justice Act often aids those who frustrate forest restoration By Michael D. Boeck   April 11, 2017 2:11 PM Recent articles’ illustrate the philosophical differences between those who support responsible forest management and those who are against logging. No matter where you may come down on the issue, it’s important to know […]

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Update on the BLM/Barstow road closures

Barstow/BLM illegal road closures… We are home after a rather interesting weekend down in Barstow CA. We’ll take you through the time line of what happened with the BLM and their closure of the roads leading to the validly held mining claims of literally thousands of mining claim owners in the Mojave desert. June/July: AMRA […]

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Thursday night update on the Barstow/BLM road closures

Update on the Barstow/BLM road closures.   We spent much of today on the phone with attorney’s, County Supervisors, other elected folks, the media and our own staff. Not to mention dealing with an injured pup, our boy Charlie. He’s going to be OK, but man do I hate wasps.   We are leaving for […]

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Barstow/BLM road closure update

Update on the Barstow/BLM road closure issue. We have not had our final conference with the BLM. We pushed the call to tomorrow so we can review some final legal documents. We have all of the management plans, the lawsuit filed by, you guessed it…Center for Biological Diversity which started this whole road and land […]

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EPA thinks laws don’t apply to them

We’ve long held that the EPA is the most dangerous regulatory agency within government. They are attempting to be Congress by unilaterally rewriting the definitions of our laws so they can escape scrutiny by the very public who they are supposed to represent and answer to. Thankfully, we have groups like Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) […]

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