Joseph Guinto

Animal ID System Faces Stiff Opposition

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2007 A program the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls “one of the largest systematic changes ever faced by the livestock industry” may be in trouble. The National Animal Identification System, which has been praised by some…

Controversial Sale in North Dakota Badlands

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2007 More than 5,000 acres of federal land in North Dakota’s Badlands could go up for sale. That’s up to Congress. The property is supposed to be offered as a unique offset to a purchase…

Bill May Force Landowners to Shoulder Firefighting Cost

Posted on September 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

When Smokey Bear says, “Only you can prevent forest fires,” he really means it. After several years of historic wildfires in the West that have strained firefighting budgets, burned thousands of acres, and destroyed homes, lawmakers in Washington and at…

Tagged with: GAO, Government Accountability Office, Harry Reid, Joseph Guinto, Mark Ray, U.S. Forest Service, USDA, USFS
Posted in Farmland, News Desk

ATV Riders Run Into Bump in Road

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Whether you’re tearing it up in an off-road vehicle or all torn up about their impact on the land, you’ll probably want to know about the tongue-twisting new advocacy group known as Rangers for Responsible Recreation. The group, backed by…

How Safe Are the Nation’s Wildlife Refuges?

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED JULY 2007 The White House accelerated funding for its Healthy Lands Initiative this year, allocating some $3 million to the Bureau of Land Management. The money must be spent on restoring or maintaining natural habitats on…

Open Fields Legislation Offers Payments to Landowners

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Remember that little place in the woods where you used to get off spectacular hip shots while hunting birds on the wing? Well, there’s a strip mall there now. That’s an increasingly common issue for hunters, whose once-prized spots are…

Tagged with: Congress, Jerry Moran, Joseph Guinto, Kent Conrad, Open Fields, Pat Roberts, USDA
Posted in Farmland, News Desk, Sporting Properties

Is the Clean Water Act Polluted?

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

You know the big mud puddle that forms on your back 40 every time it rains? The Environmental Protection Agency might want to come inspect it. At least, that’s the concern of groups that oppose a law that would rewrite…

Preserving Endangered Species for Profit

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Who can save the Alabama red-bellied turtle? Maybe your accountant can. He or she will have a chance if Congress passes new legislation that would give tax breaks to landowners who act to preserve species like the Alabama red-bellied turtle,…

Will Conservation Easement Tax Breaks Be Extended?

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED MAY 2007 Act now or forever lose your easement. A tax break for conservation-related land donations-known as conservation easements-is about to expire. That is unless Congress does something about it. The tax break, signed into law…

Tagged with: conservation easements, Joseph Guinto, Land Trust Alliance, taxation
Posted in News Desk