A lawsuit brought by environmental groups, including The Nature Conservancy (TNC), has forced 12 ranching families off the Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) in northern...
Point Reyes Land Grab by TNC
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Senate Approves Katharine MacGregor as Deputy Secretary of the Interior
The U.S. Senate approved Katharine (Kate) MacGregor as Deputy Sec. of the Interior. She will be number two at the Department behind Sec. Doug Burham. This will be MacGregor’s...
US Rejects Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals at United Nations Meeting
In a rebuke to the United Nations’ “International Day of Peaceful Coexistence,” the United States firmly denounced the UN’s “master plan for humanity.” Known as the “2030 Agenda...
USDA Receives 100’s of Responses of Lawfare After Maude Family Charges Dropped
Less than a week after USDA’s Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins formally dropped the charges against the Maude family and opened a new portal for landowners facing similar...
2025 RAC Annual Conference
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R-Calf 2025 Annual National Convention
June 17-19, 2025
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Trump Administration Drops Criminal Charges Against Maude Family
President Trump’s USDA announced on Monday that criminal charges levied against Charles and Heather Maude from South Dakota had been dropped. This is an amazing victory and it’s...
What One Wolf Can Do to One Cattle Operation
The University of California Davis (UCD) issued a study that revealed astounding economic damage a single gray wolf can wreak on one cattle operation. They found that one gray...
U.S. District Court Ends Biden-Era Lesser Prairie Chicken Rule
For the first time a federal court has struck down the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s overburdensome ‘4(d)’ rule under the Endangered Species Act for the lesser...
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Chinese Conservation Easements May Surround Military Bases
Most people have never heard about the Department of Defense’s (DOD) “Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program (REPI).” But the Biden administration used this...
OMB Files Notice to Rescind Conservation Rule
Last week, the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) published a notice to rescind the Biden-era Bureau of Land Management Conservation and Landscape Health Rule. The Rule...
New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Northeast Regional Meeting
April 24, 2025
Nucumcari, NM
Congresswomen Hageman and Fedorchak Champion Conservation Easement Reform
Congresswomen Harriet Hageman (R-WY) and Julie Fedorchak (R-ND), introduced H.R. 2773, the Landowner Easement Rights Act. This bill would prohibit the Department of the Interior...
Reps. Lauren Boebert and Tom Tiffany’s Gray Wolf Bill Passes Out of House Natural Resources Committee
The Pet and Livestock Protection Act (PALPA) introduced by Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-04) and Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI-07) passed through the House Natural Resources...
Hageman Passes Bill to Fast-Track Resolutions for DOI Disputes Out of Committee
On April 9th, the Natural Resources Committee passed the Expedited Appeals Review Act, or EARA. This bill seeks to address a long-standing problem within the Department of the...
Local Control Coordination Needed to Implement Trump’s Agenda
By Margaret Byfield
Mr. Baker Goes to Washington
Bryan Baker is a fourth-generation cotton farmer in the small rural town of Sudan, Texas. His home is in the epicenter of the federal government’s plan to expand the Muleshoe...
ESA Amendments Act of 2025
On Tuesday, April 25th, Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Chairman of the House Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee, held hearings on Chairman Westerman’s H.R. 1897, “ESA Amendments...
Utah Leadership Files Bill to Protect Utah from Natural Asset Companies
The New York Stock Exchange attempted to form Natural Asset Companies (NACs) with the support of Intrinsic Exchange Group backed by world elites like the Rockefeller Foundation...
Biden’s Department of Justice Criminally Indicts South Dakota Ranching Family
Since the 1910s, the Maude family has been ranching the same land in South Dakota that includes leases on adjoining national grasslands separated by a 75-year-old fence. A...
Missouri Wins Lawsuit Against China
The State of Missouri won a lawsuit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, passed by Congress in 1976, that creates mechanisms for identifying, seizing and selling assets of...
Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $660 Million in Damages
A nine-person jury found Greenpeace responsible last week for inciting illegal behavior against the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline by using anti-pipeline protesters to...
Victory for South Dakota Landowners
For three years, Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS) has tried to build a carbon sequestration pipeline through five states - Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota,...
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