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Wise Use cowboys try to rewrite the Constitution. Since frontier days, the business of local government in the rural West has been resource extraction. County governments were--and to a large [...]

We tied up our horses and followed Reynaldo up the last rocky slope to the lip of Paricutin, the volcano that erupted in a Mexican cornfield in 1943 and covered [...]

Like approaching sirens, the wails of corporate executives herald the start of debate on the reauthorization of Superfund, the country's program for cleaning up abandoned toxic-waste dumps. From the op-ed [...]

As though delivered by the Invisible Hand itself, strangely similar pieces of legislation are deluging statehouses across the country. They all have apple-pie names like 'The Private Property Rights Act' [...]

By law and custom, certain classes of communication in our society are confidential. These include discussions between attorney and client, doctor and patient, cleric and penitent, husband and wife. Now, [...]

As a hostile Congress rushes to judgment on the Endangered Species Act, truth and fairness are as much at risk as condors and manatees. At blatantly stacked 'hearings' held in [...]

I magine the consternation at the United States Forest Service. For years, the agency has pretended that grazing is a 'benign' activity, not subject to the environmental review requirements of [...]

It took David Long's south-central Wisconsin neighbors a long time to get used to looking at his bottomland and seeing trees and native grasses, because for as long as anyone [...]

Where most of us see wilderness, the BLM sees a highway. The Moab Jeep Trail in Utah is in danger of becoming a memory,' warns the newsletter of the Sahara [...]

Those who thought the abuse of the nation's public forests could not get worse after 1995's disastrous 'Logging Without Laws' salvage timber rider have not yet met the 105th Congress. [...]

If you don't have anything good to say about fruits and vegetables, friends, you had better not say anything at all, or else the produce industry will sue you for [...]

National parks in the United States are being held hostage by an armed gang--the National Rifle Association. If the NRA has its way, there will never be another national park [...]

Some 7 million acres of drought-parched western states went up in flames last summer, killing 23 firefighters and burning more than 800 homes. Colorado was one of the worst-hit states, [...]

When Don Young (R-Alaska) went looking for help in dismantling the Endangered Species Act, he passed right by moderate Jim Saxton (R-N.J.), whose subcommittee would normally have handled the matter. [...]

In November 1988 Oakland, California, voters passed the toughest nuclear free zone initiative in the nation by a 57-to-43 percent vote, putting themselves on a collision course with the federal [...]