Gabriella discusses the Biden administration creating two new national monuments and their WOTUS rule being invalidated in two states.
What the media gets wrong about Bears Ears National Monument? A lot, argues San Juan County Commissioner Bruce Adams.
Gabriella publishes her interview with Utah conservationist Andrew Sandstrom, who's featured in her latest Conservation Nation video, on the the podcast today.
Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke joins the podcast to talk public lands, Patagonia, Yellowstone, and more. Tune in here.
Today, President Biden announced he'll restore several National monuments to pre-Trump levels against the wishes of Utah.
What are national monuments? Why does President Biden want to enlarge them? What implications could arise by his recent actions? Gabriella dives deep into this on the podcast today.
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) joins host Gabriella on the podcast today to discuss his reaction to President Biden's executive orders pertaining to public lands and energy. Listen here.
In a proclamation issued June 5, President Trump lifted a fishing ban on 4,000 miles of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument, located about 130 miles off the New England coast.
Environmentalists have sworn to sue.
President Obama infamously said, "I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions." This he did with a vengeance. One of the most egregious areas he wielded his pen was in expanding federal control over wilderness areas with use of the “Antiquities Act.”
CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen lauds President Trump's call for a review of recent land withdrawals under the Antiquities Act -- as do residents of western states whose economic and personal freedom has been severely impinged by these heartless actions by grandstanding Presidents. While federal agencies own just 0.3% of Connecticut and Iowa, and 0.6% of New York, they own, manage and control 63% of all land in Utah; 61% in Alaska and Idaho; 80% in Nevada; 29% to 53% in the other western states. Restrictive federal land use policies severely affect job creation and economic opportunities for states, communities, families and our nation as a whole, for little environmental benefit.
As the environmental movement unfolded, Presidents courting green votes have increasingly used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to sequester large swaths of land -- and water -- from future public and private use -- all too often without the advice and consent of elected officials and citizen groups. These seizures have cost states and private citizens the use of these properties, and the revenue and enjoyment that come from such uses. President Trump's executive order is step 1 in putting a stop to these unpopular land grabs and hopefully to reopening noncritical acreage to a variety of human uses.
In closing not just the national parks, but access roads leading to private property, President Obama is demonstrating that he is willing to punish and hurt millions of Americans to get his own way. This is not leadership -- it is the work of a petulant child ascended to the throne.