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Many of us across the West are experiencing the smoky skies of the region's numerous ongoing wildfires.
Farm of the Future
Yesterday the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers released their final Waters of the U.S. Rule.
Farm of the Future
Fluctuating wheat prices can lead to longer periods of grain storage, increasing the likelihood of quality depreciation.
Land & Livestock Report
Public Lands Council Executive Director Dustin Van Liew says in addition to the modernization of the Endangered Species Act there are several other PLC's legislative priorities this year as well.
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Public Lands Council Executive Director Dustin Van Liew says one of PLC's highest legislative priorities this year is the modernization of the Endangered Species Act.
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In late June USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack sent a letter to House Appropriators stating he would close the Dubois, Idaho, U.S. Sheep Experimental Station due to prolonged period of declining and flat budgets which have resulted in underfunded programs at the station.
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A recent bi-partisan bill passed the U.S. House which would increase transparency of federal attorneys' fees payments as well as reinstating tracking and reporting requirements of payments made by the federal government under the Equal Access to Justice Act or EAJA.
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Not very often are there regulations being revoked, today's story focuses on a little known
Department of Interior's Secretarial Order 3312 or National Blueways Initiative created in 2012 -- which allowed the federal government to designate watersheds from hilltop to hilltop and then regulate those waterways the land and water throughout those areas.
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After much persistence and patience from Western livestock producers and the Public Lands Council, another step forward was made to streamline the National Environmental Protection Agency or NEPA's onerous review process that the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have had to go through for renewal of grazing permits on federal lands.
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Earlier this month the Public Lands Council held its Annual Meeting in Deadwood, South Dakota with more than 100 members attending.
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In early June, the Public Lands Council along with several other multiple use industry groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service's Forest Planning Rule due to it being in violation of current federal statutes and negatively impact multiple users like ranchers.
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With the defeat of last week's House version of the Farm Bill while at the Oregon Cattlemen's Association Centennial Celebration I was looking for some examples of House bipartisanship in moving ag producers interest forward to counterbalance the fail of the Farm Bill.
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The Public Lands Council has its sage grouse database up and running. This user-friendly library of information pertains to the sage grouse conservation and is available to the public land grazing community.
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The Public Land Council and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up and settle a decades-long property rights case, Hage v. United States.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently re-opened the comment period on a proposed Endangered Species Act Rule.