Federal Policy

Land Report December 2019 Newsletter

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Highlights from our December newsletter include: A federal judge in El Paso blocked $3.6 billion in border wall funding. The Obamas close on a 29-acre estate in Martha’s Vineyard for $11.75 million. Ikea acquires 42,000 acres of Texas timberland and…

DOJ and DOD Prepare to Condemn Private Lands for Border Wall

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Land Report Editors

NBC News reports that administration officials are preparing the requisite court filings in Texas that will facilitate the condemnation of the private property necessary to construct the border wall. In a departure from typical eminent domain cases, however, the Declaration…

America’s National Mammal Returns to Badlands Habitat for the First Time in More Than a Century

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Thanks to a land swap involving the 22,000-acre Don Kelly Ranch, bison have returned to portions of South Dakota’s Badlands for the first time since the 1870s. Engineered by the US Forest Service and the World Wildlife Fund among others,…

Waters of the United States Repealed

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Land Report Editors

The Environmental Protection Agency is repealing an Obama ruling that expanded the definition of the “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. The EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers announced that not only was the 2015…

Tagged with: Clean Water Act, EPA, US Army, waters of the United States, WOTUS
Posted in Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Water

Let’s Make A Deal

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Over the last two decades, water levels in the nation’s largest man-made reservoir, Lake Mead, have fallen to the point that it is at 39 percent of capacity. A similar plight faces the nation’s second largest reservoir, Lake Powell. Drought…

Landmark Eminent Domain Ruling

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Land Report Editors

by Cary Estes Landowners no longer will be fenced in by state decisions when it comes to eminent domain cases thanks to a recent Supreme Court ruling. By a 5-4 vote, the high court ruled in Knick v. Township of…

Tagged with: eminent domain, Institute for Justice, Robert McNamara, Supreme Court
Posted in Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Public Land

The Land Report Rockies 2019

Posted on September 1, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Go West! According to the Census Bureau, more and more Americans are moving out West. Hence, the focus of this special issue. In addition to a closer look at this compelling demographic trend, our Rockies special issue also feature these…

Food for Thought: Hemp

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Written by Lisa Martin AT PRESS TIME, only nine states – Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Dakota, and Texas – ban the cultivation of hemp, a resilient row crop that thrives in unamended soil and requires minimal…

Tagged with: Farm Bill, Fay Ranches, hemp, legalization, Sheri Wytcherley
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy

BLM to Move Headquarters to Colorado

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Land Report Editors

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced plans to move its headquarters from Washington, DC, to Grand Junction, Colorado, so top officials can be closer to the land managed by the agency. The BLM oversees approximately 388,000 square miles of…

Tagged with: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Grand Junction, headquarters
Posted in Colorado, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Public Land, West

Land Report July 2019 Newsletter

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Congratulations are in order to our 2018 Deals of the Year honorees. These standout sales are the focus of our July newsletter. They include: 2018 Deal of the Year: Wasatch Peaks Ranch 2018 Conservation Deal of the Year: Cabin Bluff…