For nearly 30 years, American Stewards has fought against the use of conservation easements to lure unsuspecting landowners into relinquishing their private property rights. Last...
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New Release: The Muleshoe Land Grab Video
We have just released a new video that tells the story of the Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge expansion – an attempt to federalize 700,000 private land acres in Texas and New Mexico....
Legislation Filed to Remove Two Species from the ESA List
Legislation filed in Congress will remove the lesser prairie chicken and the dunes sagebrush lizard from the Endangered Species list freeing up energy and agricultural producers...
Point Reyes Land Grab by TNC
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WOTUS Rule to be Revised Under Trump
Biden’s rule on “waters of the United States” placed tremendous burdens on America’s farmers and ranchers, but the Trump administration is going to revise them to mirror the U.S....
EPA Aims to Kill Climate Change Agenda
President Trump issued an Executive Order on day one called “Power the American Great Comeback.” From this EO, the President gave U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
Endangered Species Act Bill is a Good Start
Here is the big lie about the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It doesn’t really save species. The handful of successful delistings are for species that shouldn’t have been on the...
The Federal Government’s Abuse of Conservation Easements
Turns out, if you have land next to a property with a conservation easement (CE), you may also be restricted by the CE terms. In May of 2024, Biden’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
CAP Claims Biden Preserved More Land than the Louisiana Purchase
The Center for American Progress (CAP), the progressive group that initiated the 30x30 program, claims Joe Biden protected more lands and waters than the size of the Louisiana...
Reducing Federal Land Inventory
During the Vice-Presidential debate, J. D. Vance was asked about affordable housing, and his response fell right in line with what American Stewards has advocated – the reduction...
Bill Filed in Washington State to Tax Cow Flatulence
Washington State is considering a bill that would impose a new tax on dairy farmers and beef producers for their animal’s offensive emissions. House Bill 1630, filed by several...