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...
Chinese Conservation Easements May Surround Military Bases
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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...
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,...
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...
Climate Science Isn’t So Settled
What if it turns out that reducing emissions actually causes fewer clouds, which then may lead to a warmer atmosphere? Stated differently, what if the cure for global warming is...
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...
Carbon Capture Verses Property Rights
The Trump administration, along with the oil and gas industry wish to scale back environmental regulations put into place by the Biden Administration, with one exception – carbon...
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...
Trump Unleashes Timber Production With Two E.O.s
On March 1, 2025, President Trump issued the first of two Executive Orders entitled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production “to improve timber production and sound...
Rule Issued to Strip NEPA Regulations
Regulations issued by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) are being rescinded by a Trump Executive Order, setting in motion the dismantling of one of environmentalists...
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...
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