The Florida legislature finally came to their senses last week and approved budget cuts to Governor DeSantis’ flagship conservation land acquisition program known as “Florida...
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Chairman Lee Adds Provision to Reduce Federal Land Inventory
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) added an amendment to the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that would sell off between 2.2 and 3.3 million acres of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest...
Federal Failures, Kansas Consequences: The Quivira Water Grab
By Tracey Barton - Executive Director, Kansas Natural Resource Coalition When the federal government threatens to seize private farmland to fix its own mistakes, Kansas counties...
Iowa Landowners and Local Governments Lose Against Summit
Last week both Governor Kim Reynolds and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC (Summit) allowing their carbon capture pipeline to be built...
White House Counsel Sets Stage for President to Revoke National Monuments
What appears to be the beginning process to rescind or reduce the size of national monuments was launched last week in a legal memorandum by Counsel to the President. The...
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...
Third Chinese Citizen Arrested for Smuggling Biological Materials into U.S.
On Monday, June 9th, a third arrest of a Chinese citizen smuggling biological materials into the United States was announced by the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney from the...
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
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...
SCOTUS Limits Agency Environmental Reviews
In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court last Thursday issued a landmark decision that limits the authority of federal judges to block infrastructure projects based on potential...
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The Department of Interior (DOI) announced on May 16, they are asking for public comments to “identify outdated, overly complex or burdensome regulations.”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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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