Rob Gordon, Advisor to CFACT, writes how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s definition of harm needs to be eliminated. He also submitted comments on behalf of CFACT (Committee For A...
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30×30 Conservation Welfare Programs Remain in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”
While the House bill makes significant cuts to the green new deal agenda, including eliminating pro carbon sequestration pipeline language, the final bill failed to cut one of...
Interior Department Seeks Public Input on Repealing Public Lands and Natural Resources Rules
The Department of Interior (DOI) announced on May 16, they are asking for public comments to “identify outdated, overly complex or burdensome regulations.” It’s all a part of...
Defeating Carbon Pipeline in South Dakota May be Revived by Congress’ Reconciliation Bill
Earlier this year, ASL reported in Liberty Matters how the landowners won a major victory over Summit Carbon Solutions and the carbon sequestration pipeline they intended to...
Tennessee Governor Revives and Passes Land Preservation Act
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...




























