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ENVIRONMENT July 29, 2022

Billionaire-funded eco group quietly taking farmland out of production in rural America

A little-known conservation project funded by billionaire moguls is slowly acquiring land made available for cattle grazing in an effort to create a "fully functioning ecosystem."

Idaho July 28, 2022

Idaho Department of Lands announces they are auctioning state lands, will allow remote bidders

Idaho officials will allow remote bidding for state lands. The state is doing this in order to bring out more participants in the auction.

California June 27, 2022

California's private forestland is closing to the public due to forest fire risk

Swaths of private California forestlands are going to be closed to the public starting this week due to extreme drought and risk of wildfires.

California October 3, 2021

Bruce’s Beach property in California back in family's hands after nearly a century of injustice

A multimillion dollar California beach property will be given back to the descendants of a Black couple after the government took the land through eminent domain in the 1920s.

OPINION September 30, 2021

Ex-Forest Service Investigator: Biden's BLM nominee colluded with eco-terrorists—she can't be trusted

Every president of the United States is faced with critical decisions. Nominating individuals to serve in government is among the most consequential. In order to be confirmed and to be effective, nominees must gain the trust of the American people. President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violates that trust. 

Politics July 29, 2021

Biden BLM nominee called to 'wage war on overpopulation'

Tracy Stone-Manning, the president’s nominee for BLM director, wrote an essay published by the High Country News in February 1991 on how to preserve the grizzly bear population in the US.

Colorado July 28, 2021

Lauren Boebert, other CO reps call to reject Biden's Bureau of Land Management pick if she moves HQ to DC

Three Republican Colorado representatives are calling on the state's two senators to reject President Biden's nominee to lead to Bureau of Land Management if she does not commit to keeping its headquarters in Colorado.

SENATE July 22, 2021

Democrats rally for Biden public lands pick despite scrutiny from Republicans

A bitterly divided U.S. Senate panel deadlocked Thursday on President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee vast government-owned lands in the West.

SENATE July 14, 2021

Republicans ramp up pressure on Biden to pull nominee linked to eco-terrorist plot

Republican senators are ramping up pressure on President Biden to withdraw Tracy Stone-Manning's nomination for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director.

Land June 24, 2021

Biden nominee called for population control to protect environment: 'We must breed fewer consuming humans'

Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden’s controversial nominee to head up BLM, has come under fire in recent weeks for her connection to a tree spiking incident – an ecoterrorism tactic – in Idaho in the 1980s, where she traded her court testimony for legal immunity.

EXECUTIVE June 9, 2021

Biden nominee under fire over possible financial benefits while working in Congress

President Biden's nominee for the director of the Bureau of Land Management is under fire from Republicans for an allegedly unethical loan she took while she worked for Sen. John Tester.