The State of Texas has initiated a $33 billion statewide plan to construct multiple 765kV transmission lines that will traverse the entire state. Sold as the solution to solve...
Texas Transmission Line Land Grab
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House Passes Gray Wolf Delisting Bill
On December 18th, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 845, the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, 211 - 204. The bill was filed by U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and...
ESA Amendments Act of 2025
Two key small landowner protection provisions were added to the ESA Amendments Act as one of the House Natural Resource Committee’s last actions for 2025. American Stewards has...
Small Landowner Protections Added to ESA Bill
Thank you for answering the call. Yesterday, during the committee markup on the ESA Amendment Act of 2025, two key provisions were added to the bill that protects small...
Trump’s Tweaks Will Help Endangered Species
By Shawn Regan, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute The Trump administration recently proposed reforms to correct one of the act’s most counterproductive aspects....
Trump Administration Revises ESA Regulations
The Department of Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced new rules last week to “strengthen American energy independence, improve regulatory predictability and...
Gov. Hochul and AG Leticia James Continue Biden’s 30×30 Plan
On November 10th, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Leticia James signed a Memorandum of Agreement to Advance New York’s “Climate and ‘30x30’ Open Space...
ESA and DOI “Playing God”
Senator John Kennedy, a well-known animal rights activist, inadvertently proved why the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is a miserable failure and needs reforming or eliminated. “I...
Congress Overturns Biden Land Use Rules
During the Biden administration, American Stewards published numerous articles and warnings about how land management plans of federal agencies were being used to destroy private...
Florida Continues Its Massive Take Over of Private Land
Within the last four months, Governor Ron DeSantis, Attorney General James Uthmeier, and Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson have all announced land acquisitions via...
$250k Lost Annually by Family Ranchers with Wolves
The Office for Fiscal Regulatory Accountability (OFRA) has released a new estimate of the economic losses faced by family ranches when the endangered Grey Wolf is present on...
Rollback Continues – Another 30×30 Victory
“The Department of the Interior is proposing to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, aligning with Secretary Doug Burgum’s commitment to restoring balance...
Prairie Chicken Delisted – Big Win for Landowners
On August 12th, a federal judge in Texas has, for a second time, vacated a Biden administration rule that listed the lesser prairie chicken as endangered and remanded the rule...
Muleshoe Victory
As reported last week, Representative Jodey Arrington announced that Department of the Interior Secretary Burgham rescinded the Land Protection Plan for the Muleshoe National...
President Trump Ends the Muleshoe 30×30 Plan
American Stewards of Liberty is pleased to deliver an update on an issue we've been battling for the past 12 months. Today, the Trump Administration canceled the Land Protection...
Environmentalists Sue Over Border Wall
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) has sued Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem for waiving several environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the National...
USDA Cancels $1 Billion in IRA Conservation Grants
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds granted by the Biden administration that would go directly to environmental organizations were rescinded by the Trump Administration last...
Multiple States Continue Biden’s 30×30 Agenda
The Trump administration rescinded Biden’s 30x30 (America the Beautiful) scheme on day one of his second term in office, but multiple states continue the destructive path to...
OPINION: Eminent Threat: Federal Energy Corridor Endangers Eastern New Mexico Farms and Ranches
Written by Bronson Corn June 10, 2025 Eastern New Mexico is in the crosshairs of the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor (NIETC). That means livelihoods of many...
BlackRock Continues its March to Monetize Nature
One of the backers behind monetizing natural processes is the largest investment firm in the world, BlockRock. Earlier this year, they released a commentary that notes taxes on...
Environmentalists Keep 30×30 Land Acquisition Gains
Senate: On Saturday night, Senator Lee withdrew his federal land sales provision from the budget reconciliation bill. Concerns that the lands would be sold to China, Blackrock...
Perpetuity is Not Working
Back in April, Congresswomen Harriet Hageman (R-WY) and Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) introduced the Landowner Easement Rights Act that limits the term of a conservation easement to 30...
Rolling Back 30×30 by Reducing the Federal Land Inventory
As reported in last week’s Liberty Matters, Senator Mike Lee from Utah included in the Senate’s FY25 Budget Reconciliation Bill, President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” an...
N.J. Family’s Land Being Taken by Eminent Domain
The Cranberry Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey voted unanimously in May to approve a plan to acquire through eminent domain Andy Henry’s family farm to meet...
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