You are right on target. Suckling and his band of thieves have created a large and successful SW enviro business by suing Federal land management agencies in the Southwest and winning. However Kieran Suckling is the least of Dale Hall's worries. Dale has his hands full in the SW Region with intra-Regional personnel rivalries and pig-headed biologists.
Muleteam1
I know what you mean. I was raised in NM and it is a different place today.
A close friend of mine had Federal Oil & Gas leases cancelled because the area they were in was declared a Federal Wilderness area, after the fact. He sued and lost (many tens of thousands). The area is now the "Bisti" National something or other (near Farmington).
The ironic thing is the area described as such a "pristine treasure", is the same place we used to have "keggers" as high school kids.
Throughout the whole process he and his attorney were treated with contempt by the Fed officials in NM. Presumeably, those are one and the same that Dale Hall will have to deal with (hopefully fire).