The National Association of Counties (NACO), a bipartisan membership organization, adopted a new interim policy on 30 x 30, February 14th. The new policy does challenges the lack...
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American Farm Bureau Federation Adopts Policy Opposing 30 x 30
One of the nation’s largest agriculture organizations, The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), adopted a new policy opposing the Biden Administration’s 30 x 30 land control...
California has Released their Pathway to 30 x 30 Report
The State of California has released its final report on how it will work to achieve the “international movement to conserve natural areas across our planet,” entitled “Pathways...
Biden Administration Seeks Input on Conservation Atlas
On January 4, 2022, The Department of Interior published a notice in the Federal Register for “information to inform interagency efforts to develop the American Conservation and...
Chaves County Sets Meeting with Forest Service on Forest Plan
At the end of last year, Chaves County, New Mexico, was made aware that the U.S. Forest Service was preparing to recommend new wilderness areas within their County. The Forest...
Stop 30 x 30 Campaign
In our first issue of Liberty Matters this year, we exposed the radical environmental goal to permanently protect at least 30 percent of our lands and oceans, predicting it would...
Chaves County Challenges the Forest Services Failure to Coordinate
In August, the U.S. Forest Service released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the revision of the Lincoln National Forest Plan without coordinating the plan or the...
Two Conservation Easements Denied by Counties in Nebraska
Nebraska law gives counties the authority to approve or deny special use permits for conservation easements on land (Neb. Rev. Stat. 76-2,112) that are inconsistent with the...
White House Releases Progress Report on 30 x 30
December 20, 2021, the White House released its “Year One Report – America the Beautiful” to update the progress made towards the President’s 30 x 30 initiative launched by...
True Conservationists Should Oppose 30 x 30
Gabriella Hoffman interviews Margaret Byfield, Executive Director of American Stewards of Liberty, for Episode 237 of District of Conservation. Margaret came on to discuss her...
Five U.S. Departments Sign “Protected Lands” Statement in Glasgow
Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Haaland took a large contingency of DOI agency heads to the COP26 summit to participate in the international forum earlier this...
Your Land is Their Land
Two online mapping tools have been created to help the public identify lands in America that should be protected under the “climate crisis” agenda. The Nature Conservancy (TNC)...
Conservation Dollars to Compete with Working Landowners
In an interview given to Agri-Pulse Communications, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack said there is $27 billion allocated in the Build Back Better Act (BBB) for conservation funding...
Brace for Impact: Biden Administration Rescinding Protections for Landowners
The Trump Administration governed from a philosophy of reducing regulations and increasing productivity, which, as his presidency demonstrated, leads to a stronger economy and...
Hold the Line and Don’t Straddle the 30 x 30 Fence
When the Biden Administration failed to publicly define “conservation” or even identify what lands qualify under his 30 x 30 initiative in the first report released last May,...
Send the Calvary: Texas Border Commission Initiates Coordination with TDEM
The Texas Border Counties of Kinney and Uvalde, along with the City of Uvalde, finally have the Texas Department of Emergency Management’s (TDEM) attention. They held their first...
Americans Reject 30 x 30
Nebraska now has over 60 counties that have passed resolutions opposed to 30 x 30, thanks to the leadership of Governor Pete Ricketts, who has made certain Nebraskan’s are...
The Internationally Driven 30 x 30 Agenda
The Biden Administration’s attempt to sell the American people on the idea that the 30 x 30 initiative is locally driven is totally refuted when you look at the agenda’s...
Gov. Ricketts Hosts Margaret Byfield on “The Nebraska Way” Podcast
LINCOLN – Today, Governor Ricketts released the 26th episode of “The Nebraska Way” featuring Margaret Byfield, Executive Director of American Stewards of Liberty. During the...
New Mexico Governor Usher’s in “Half Earth” Agenda
Few would be surprised to learn that New Mexico’s Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, would be the first to move beyond the 30 x 30 land protection goal of environmentalists, and...
Cheney Files 30 x 30 Bill That Falls Short
Last week, Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) filed a 30 x 30 bill promoted to protect property rights and guard against federal overreach. However, the language fails to deliver...
30 x 30 Interview with Governor Ricketts
(Liberty Matters) Epoch TV aired a candid interview with Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts on the 30 x 30 agenda. He explains how the Biden Administration has refused to answer the...
Spotted Owl Critical Habitat Proposed to Increase, Again
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed a new rule to increase the designated critical habitat for the northern spotted owl listed as endangered in 1990. The...
Former EarthFirst! BLM Director Hearing Set for Thursday
Tracy Stone-Manning, the President’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency that oversees 247 million acres of the nation’s federal lands, will be...