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The Trump administration announced a key step toward opening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas exploration Thursday, rolling out a plan that would see lease sales occur by the end of the year. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its finalized Environmental Impact Statement, which favors the option to offer lease sales across 1.56 million acres of Alaska’s coastal plains. “After rigorous review, robust public comment, and a consideration of a range of alternatives, today’s announcement is a big step to carry out the clear mandate we received from Congress to develop and implement a...

"Dad was One Cowboy who stood to uphold and defend the United States Constitution against domestic adversaries" Haunted by the mental picture of the body of patriot cowboy LaVoy Finicum lying in the winter Oregon snow, Canada Free Press wrote back in March of 2016… ““Maybe some day, a song writer with heart will come along and mark his passing with ‘The Ballad of LaVoy Finicum’ to remind us all in song about the cold-blooded cruelty of governments who put power and one-upmanship ahead of the dignity of human life.” That day has come. Much better than any ballad is...

President Trump on Tuesday pardoned a pair of Oregon ranchers whose arson conviction became a focus for opponents of federal government land ownership. Dwight Hammond, 76, and his son Steven, 49, were convicted in 2012 and sent to prison on arson charges. They had set a series of fires on their ranch that spread to federal land. The Hammonds’ case became the inspiration for the 40-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. The organizers wanted to protest federal land ownership. The Hammonds distanced themselves from the occupiers and didn't endorse the action. In a statement Tuesday...

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Convoys of cartel gunmen clashed in a Mexican neighborhood immediately south of a U.S. wildlife refuge. The fierce gun battle went on for more than an hour and reached an international bridge zone that connects this city with Pharr, Texas. A leaked cartel video obtained by Breitbart Texas reveals the moment when gunmen from one of the factions ride in an armored SUV in what appears to be a patrol operation. Moments later, the gunmen can be heard calling for reinforcements as they begin to fire their weapons at rivals.

[Martha's Vineyard] The Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation this week issued a public apology and launched an overhaul of its land management practices following the revelation that large numbers of trees and other plants had been dug up from two of its preserves and used to landscape an exclusive private property on the North Shore. *** The two foundation properties, the Caroline Tuthill Preserve in Edgartown and the Priscilla Hancock Meadow in Chilmark, were left damaged by heavy earth moving equipment brought in by contractors hired to landscape the 30-acre property of Dirk Ziff near Lambert’s Cove in West Tisbury.

While the Bundy supporters continue to celebrate the acquittal of all 7 defendants, the prosecution is taking hits for reinforcing the narrative of government overreach. It is widely held that the prosecution in the Malheur Protest Trial would have easily won a victory if they had not got greedy and attempted to go for the maximum prison sentences possible. They could have gone for trespassing or vandalism, but have stated that they chose they higher charge of conspiracy because of the amount of prison time involved. They wanted the Bundy’s in jail for a very long time. It seems that...

It was on an earlier trip to the Mississippi Delta during which Teddy Roosevelt's actions would spawn what would become easily his most well-known legacy -- that would be, for better or worse, the introduction of the Teddy bear -- when he famously refused to shoot a captive black bear while hunting in Mississippi in 1902. But some 13 years later, in June 1915, the then-ex-president made a follow-up trip to Louisiana that, while nowhere nearly as well known, or as oft repeated, as that apocryphal Teddy bear tale, proved him to be ten times the sportsman."He was clad in...

The occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, by armed militants has prompted the closure of the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge near Cheney. A closure notice was posted on the refuge's website on Friday.

Chris Burgard, BORDER documentary filmmaker, speaks to thousands at the Tea Party Express national tour kickoff in Searchlight NV. You know that ‘off limits’ area in Arizona called Buenos Aires Wildlife preserve? It has essentially been closed to Americans and surrendered to the Mexican drug cartels. That is the exact area where Chris Burgard (seen above at the Tea Party Express kickoff in Searchlight NV) filmed his movie BORDER, and watched columns of heavily armed men escorting people across the border. His movie predicted the increasing violence and conflict in that exact area several years back, but no one wanted...

The U.S. Sportsmen's Legal Defense Fund, an arm of the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, has petitioned a federal judge to dismiss a case brought by anti-hunters that would outlaw recreational hunting on 37 units of the National Wildlife Refuge System. "The case is totally without merit," said Rick Story of the Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation, which manages the defense fund. "We would have filed our motion to dismiss the suit sooner, but the anti-hunting plaintiffs kept amending it to seek hunting bans on more refuges. It seems they've run out of ideas, so it's time to end this debacle." The sportsmen's group...

CABEZA PRIETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Ariz. -- Mountains of trash, recurring fires, despoiled natural springs, vandalized historic sites and disappearing wildlife are part of the devastating toll that the government's running battle with smugglers and migrants is taking on national parks and wildlife refuges along the U.S. border with Mexico. In southern Arizona, the damage extends to American Indian and private land, jeopardizing a broad expanse of the Sonoran Desert, which boasts a greater diversity of plant and animal life than any other North American desert. At Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, 2 1/2 million pounds of garbage is scattered...

Stevens Holds Senate in Session Fight for Oil Drilling Keeps Colleagues From Holiday Break By Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 20, 2005; A13 It's an audacious power play, even for Sen. Ted Stevens. The wily and cantankerous Alaska Republican is trying to secure the mother of all pet projects for his state: oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Stevens has attached the provision to a popular defense spending bill and has put holiday plans of his Senate colleagues on hold as he dares Democratic and moderate Republican opponents to vote against it. The former Appropriations...

We’ve all been had. The bottom has long since fallen out of the key group that master-minded the Kyoto Protocol credit scheme, but nobody seemed to have joined the dots. It all began with the flight of Canadian Maurice Strong’s Earth Council from Costa Rica as noted by the National Post’s Peter Foster in May, 2004. With no fanfare, the Earth Council landed in CH2M Hill’s Consumer Road Toronto office towers. The Costa Rican government has been pursuing the Earth Council for payment of U.S.$1.65 million, for the wrongful sale of a tract of land it imprudently donated to the...

<p>Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s renegade daughter, has an article in the current Newsweek titled “Dirty Footprints” in which she pleads, “We must write letters of outrage to the senators who voted to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). But maybe all there is left to do is weep. When I saw the news today, I sat down and wept.”</p>

ABSTRACT The Kyoto Protocol offers us a wonderful opportunity to deeply examine two seemingly unrelated areas that our colleagues, the paid media, demonstrate particular ineptitude at coupling: global warming and terrorism. From the standpoints of both security and stewardship, America has a mandate to massively develop alternative energy. (Stop here to be spared the rhetoric.) DISCUSSION Obviously "fossil fuels" generally means oil, and oil is big business. Simple-minded conservatives erroneously equate economic prosperity with conservatism, rendering the most powerful businesses champions of their cause. Such "economic conservatism" ignores social concerns and denies the economic realities of captive markets (monopolies) and...

Colorado officials support Moffat County decision State, nation backing RS 2477 road resolution in face of environmental oppositionCraig Daily Press By Josh NicholsFriday, June 6, 2003 The Moffat County commissioners passed a resolution in January that the county land use board chairman said would help the county maintain its custom and culture by assuring recreational, agricultural and mineral development on federal lands in Moffat County. A recent letter written by the director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources to the United States Department of Interior indicates that the state has Moffat County's back in its January decision. In that...

<p>DENVER — In a grand irony, the land no human being wanted to touch became a buffer zone where wildlife has been able to thrive, and now it's theirs forever.</p> <p>The Army and Environmental Protection Agency are in the process of transforming Colorado's Rocky Mountain Arsenal, once a polluted wasteland where war weapons and later pesticides were produced, into a wildlife refuge.</p>