Greg Walcher
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It is an ongoing failure of academics, and the government agencies that fund them, that they cannot find solutions to America’s forest health crisis.
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Which side will Colorado be on this time? Will its officials defend its water, or knuckle under to federal control?
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If you thought the EPA had grown large and powerful enough already, the agency has embraced yet another mandate representing gross federal overreach.
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Rural activists say they are tired of being ignored, and outvoted, by people in the large cities who are isolated from the interests of rural communities, both geographically and culturally.
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Climate ChangeConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
by Greg Walcher March 18, 2021The transition team recommended moving BLM’s headquarters back, and rehiring all the senior career staff that took other jobs.
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ConstitutionEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
Sorry, Still Not for Sale
by Greg Walcher January 26, 2021Why is the New York Times writing about Colorado water? Because Wall Street investors plan to get rich by rerouting it.
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One should not blame sophisticated and well-funded activists for wanting to use the current situation to push their agenda, however far-fetched it may seem.
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In the next few years, many existing critical habitat designations should be re-evaluated and scaled back.
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Since the days of George Washington, Presidents have wished they could make government employees do what they are told.
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Though few people understand details of the “National Environmental Policy Act” (NEPA), there is a widespread sense that it is important.
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What if someone said they planned to burn down your house, but it’s for your own good?
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Gustave Aimard famously wrote that “There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come.”
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Bayard Taylor wrote, “And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, the poppy’s bonfire spread.” He could have been describing the famous poppy fields in Lake Elsinore, California.