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MSLF Helps Lakewood Homeowners Win Property Rights Battle Without Having to File a Lawsuit
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In the final days of his term, President Biden issued a sweeping proclamation that locked up over 624,000 acres of Southern California desert—roughly the size of Rhode Island—by declaring it the Chuckwalla National Monument. With that single act, entire communities were shut out of the public lands that they’ve relied on for generations.
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Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF), joined by several allied organizations, has submitted comments in support of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposal to rescind its 2024 Conservation and Landscape…
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In the final days of his term, President Biden issued a sweeping proclamation that locked up over 624,000 acres of Southern California desert—roughly the size of Rhode Island—by declaring it…
