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Biden’s BLM Just Changed How Public Land is Managed

DEVELOPING STORY Despite outcry, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) just passed a controversial new rule that will put environmentalism on equal footing with traditional public land uses such as ranching, timber, recreation, and drilling. The rule constitutes a major change in how BLM manages 245 million acres of federal land — roughly one-tenth of the country. In what some are calling a “land grab,” this rule will allow the BLM to auction off land leases to environmental groups. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 tasked the agency with overseeing “multiple uses” of public land. These uses

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Biden’s BLM Just Changed How Public Land is Managed

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DEVELOPING STORY Despite outcry, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) just passed a controversial new rule that will put environmentalism on equal footing with traditional public land uses such as ranching, timber, recreation, and drilling. The rule constitutes a major change in how BLM manages 245 million acres of federal land — roughly one-tenth of

Ask a Ranch Vet: Do cattle in the U.S. get mRNA vaccines?

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As a large animal veterinarian, I receive this question quite often. Both producers and consumers want to know if the new mRNA vaccine technology used in many of the COVID vaccines is now being used in livestock production. Some are concerned about potential health affects related to this emerging technology. The answer is “no”. There

From the Road: LA Sun Film Fest

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Thank you to the LA Sun Film Festival for their official selection of You Just Can’t See Them From the Road! We’re honored to be included in this IMDB-qualifying film festival based out of Los Angeles, California.

Tennessee Rancher Suing Biden for Loss of Home, Farmland & Cattle

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DEVELOPING STORY Tennessee rancher and agricultural lawyer Dustin Kittle is suing Joe Biden’s administration for failing to fill vacant seats on the U.S. Farm Credit Administration (FCA) Board, leaving farmers like him at risk. Mr. Kittle is alleging that because of this dereliction of duty by the president, he and his family lost their home,

BLM Plan to Protect Sage Grouse Limits Energy Production, Grazing

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Ranchers are among those concerned a government plan to protect the greater sage grouse will further imperil production in Western states. Thursday, the Biden administration put forward a plan to curtail cattle grazing, oil and gas drilling, mining, green energy projects, and other commercial activities across 67 million acres of the West’s great “sagebrush sea”

In the Burn: Stories from the Texas Panhandle Fire

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It will be a long time before the total toll of the North Texas wildfires can be counted. Over 1950 square miles of grassland plains and scrubby low brush burned in the Smokehouse Creek Fire, the largest in state history. Ranchers in the Panhandle lost thousands of cattle. The fire likely started as an electrical

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