Ray Powell

Dear HCN, The controversy over livestock grazing on public lands is not merely a contest between ranchers and environmentalists. Any substantial changes in federal grazing policy affect us all. And that is why I’m afraid that our senior U.S. senator has misplaced his priorities in his Livestock Grazing Act (S. 852). I say this reluctantly […]

Dear HCN, County officials throughout the West are talking about “taking back the land” by abolishing the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service. Last year we began hearing a legal argument that New Mexico was denied statehood on an “equal footing” with the original 13 states, contrary to the U.S. Constitution. This old theory […]