The results of a poll released Thursday show a plurality of Americans trust local residents over government officials to make judgments on national monument designations. A Morning Consult/Politico poll found that 32 percent of Americans believe state residents are better suited to make decisions about national monuments than local representatives, state governors or federal officials. “The poll shows exactly what the Trump Administration has argued all along: local stakeholders should have more of a say in how federal lands in their communities are managed,” DOI spokeswoman Heather Swift told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Saturday, August 12, 2017
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