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By Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is revising its plans to protect a type of imperiled game bird found only along the California-Nevada […]
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Nevada Joins Challenge of Endangered Species Act Rule Changes
Nevada has joined an 18-state coalition that has filed suit against various federal land agencies for essentially rewriting the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) to in effect give themselves […]
How to stop a charging bureaucrat? Take away his credit card
If you can’t get a bill passed in Congress telling a federal agency to stop doing something, just slip some language into the appropriate appropriations bill denying funding for doing […]
Time for western states to take matters into their own hands
Perhaps it is time for Western states to take a page from the tactics of environmentalists — namely, sue and settle. Over and over, federal land agencies are eagerly caving […]
Euthanasia needs to be an option for wild horses
Our government masters too often seem downright schizophrenic. Take the raging debates over what to do about two species — sage grouse and wild horses. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
Ravens are newest threat to sage grouse
Never are the agencies of the federal government more efficient, more capable than when they are working at diametric cross purposes — canceling out one objective with another. Agencies such […]
Federal land agencies show little concern for Nevadans
The Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to try to stop the greater sage grouse from being listed under the Endangered Species act, has accused the Bureau of […]
Many opportunities and hurdles on tap for rural Nevada in 2014
The year 2014 might well be a tipping point for the economic well being of rural Nevada. There are several opportunities and hurdles on the horizon. For one, the Nevada […]