Today, MSLF along with six other organizations filed comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposal to create rules establishing a new class of “conservation leases” intended to tie up…
Mountain States continues to rack up victories early in 2023 for our determined clients. In the latest good news, the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council and other petitioners have agreed to dismiss several of their challenges to the revised forest plan for the Rio Grande National Forest. While several claims remain, this settlement represents a significant win for our clients: the Trails Preservation Alliance, the Colorado Snowmobile Association, and other forest riders.
The government had a moral and legal obligation to make a decision, and not leave families like the Rays hanging in permanent limbo. The government’s inaction made it impossible for Rayco, LLC—the company run by the family—to get its plan of operations approved. As a result, the family business tragically fell into decay when the government forced them out.
We’ve already proven we can be energy independent, with all the national security that that implies. Our politicians are choosing to make our country inhospitable to our people and our industry.
The United States federal government is in the midst of a crisis of public trust. Surveys show that, no matter how you measure it, Americans’ trust in their government is…
Since before 1993, the late Sidney Longwell fought to get free from the bureaucrats at the Department of the Interior (DOI). Mountain States Legal Foundation and all of its supporters…
On game nights where your trove of random trivia facts becomes useful, you might get a question like, “Who is the largest landowner in the United States?” You may be…
Everyone should play by the same rules. That’s the basic idea of fairness most Americans understand. When it befits them, the federal government loves to hold people accountable to its…
Case Summary Public lands should be for public use, right? According to environmentalists, that’s wrong. For many disabled Americans, including many veterans like the Trail Preservation Alliance’s Don Riggle,…