In this issue... We take a deep dive into the efforts to implement 30 x 30: Op-Ed: By Norm James, Fennimore Craig, P.C., “The 30 x 30 Land Grab” Garfield County Leads Campaign...
Liberty Matters News Service, Issue 3
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How to Fight the 30 x 30 Program
We have prepared the Guide to Fight the 30 x 30 Land Grab, which you can download for free. Included in this package are fact sheets, resource links and two model resolutions:...
Liberty Matters News Service, Issue 2
In this issue... Hard-Left by Executive Order “30 x 30” Launched in Climate Crisis EO What 1776, 1619 and 1792 Have in Common U.S. Federal Reserve Joins Group Greening the...
Liberty Matters News Service, Issue 1
In this issue... Liberty Matters News Service What's Next for Conservatives? Remember Cattle Free by '93? Here Comes "30 x 30." The Battlground is Local Speaking of Local Action...
New Coordination Guide Released
For the past few months, we have been preparing an updated Guide on how to use the powerful Coordination strategy that requires Federal agencies to make Federal plans and...
US District Court Orders Agency to Reconsider Removing Cave Bug from Endangered List
Georgetown, TX – Late Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) directing them to reconsider...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Review Threatened Listing of Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
GEORGETOWN, TX – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has announced a positive 90-day finding on a petition to remove the western distinct population segment (DPS) of the...
Groups Call for Action on American Burying Beetle
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), American Stewards of Liberty (ASL), and Osage Producers Association have filed a lawsuit today against...
Congress Calls on President Trump to Implement Coordination
August 4, 2017 – Washington, D.C: Congressional leaders sent a letter to President Donald Trump requesting that his Administration be the first to ensure meaningful coordination...
Streamlining BLM? – Implement Coordination
March 27, 2017, Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, issued a Memorandum to the Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) directing him to streamline the land use...
Arizona landowners celebrate long-awaited removal of Hualapai Mexican vole from the Endangered Species List
June 23, 2017 – GEORGETOWN, TX – The Hualapai Mexican vole or Hualapai vole (Microtus mexicanus hualpaiensis) of Northern Arizona is now the first ESA-listed domestic species to...
Federal Rail Authority No Show – TXDOT No Comment
HEMPSTEAD, TX: The Texas Department of Transportation returned once again to Waller County on Monday, May 15, 2017 as ordered by a Travis County State District Court to...
Texas Court Rules for Local Government Coordination
January 6, 2017 – HEMPSTEAD, TX: A Travis County District Court on Thursday, January 5th, ruled that the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) has a “duty to coordinate...
Controversial Decision by Federal Government to List Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Challenged
GEORGETOWN, TX: A diverse group of local governments, landowners and industry representatives has challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) by filing a petition...
Citizen-backed Effort to Delist American Burying Beetle Marches On
AUSTIN, TX – American Stewards of Liberty (ASL) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) have filed a Notice of Intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
Court Orders U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Take a New Look at Petition to Delist Bone Cave Harvestman
December 28, 2016—GEORGETOWN, TX – The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas issued an order late last week granting the motion of the U.S. Fish and...
Local Governments Sue to Stop BLM’s New Resource Planning Rules
Today, counties in six western states and a soil and water conservation district filed suit in federal district court in Utah challenging new resource planning rules adopted by...
Texas State Agency Sued for Failure to Coordinate
HEMPSTEAD, TX – The Waller County Sub-Regional Planning Commission (Commission) filed suit in Travis District Court on Wednesday, October 26, against the Texas Department of...
Federal Rail Authority Controls Texas Department of Transportation
(Part 2 of a 2-Part Series on Federalism in Texas) On May 13, 2016, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) wrote a stunning letter to Waller County Judge Trey Duhon,...
EPA Trojan Horse Rolls Into Texas!
(Part 1 of a 2 Part Series) The State of Texas has a long history of opposing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory edicts, but interestingly, the Sunset...
Coalition Challenges BLM’s Proposed Planning Rules
A coalition of Local Governments and Associations filed comments today, challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed revisions to their planning rules (81 Fed. Reg....
Coordination Requested on BLM’s Proposed Planning Rules
April 12, 2016, six Counties and three Conservation Districts representing seven Western states (the Coordinating Local Governments) issued a letter to the Bureau of Land...
BLM Proposes New Rules that Erode Coordination
Coalition of Local Governments Formed to Stop Proposed Rules February 25, 2016, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released proposed new rules that govern how they develop and...
ASL’s Beetle Petition Leads to Formal Status Review
Tuesday, March 15, 2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its finding that American Stewards of Liberty’s (ASL) petition to delist the American Burying Beetle...
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