Tag Archives: land rights

U-Turn on the Roadless Road to Ruin

Imagine an energy company running a pipeline across your land when empty federal land sat right next door. Since energy companies may exercise the power of eminent domain in Wyoming, this has happened many times over the years and continues … Continue reading

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A Developer Tells It Like It Is in Cheyenne

It’s not often that titans of business tell it like it is.  I about danced a jig last year when Steve Wynn laid out exactly what “uncertainty” means regarding Obama Administration policies.  It’s great when very successful people can put … Continue reading

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Keeping our Rights-of-Way: On the Trails of RS 2477

Last November we published Ben Barr’s One Thousand Roads to Liberty: The Unexamined Case for RS 2477 and Sovereignty (available for download as a Liberty Brief).  The paper details the history of RS 2477, a federal law passed in 1866 … Continue reading

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One Thousand Roads to Liberty

Ending a decade of contentious litigation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a controversial opinion last Friday upholding President Clinton’s “Roadless Rule.”  The rule in controversy was issued in the last days of the Clinton … Continue reading

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Press Release: Regain the Right of Way

A tool to assert state sovereignty and local control. CHEYENNE: The Wyoming Liberty Group’s latest Liberty Brief, One Thousand Roads to Liberty, shows that property rights in Wyoming are still protected under a long-overlooked portion of federal law known as … Continue reading

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Getting Federalism Right

In a surprise move by Congress, the “Clean Water Collective Federalism Act of 2011” passed out of the House on July 13. The bill has as its purpose a simple, but noble, intent:  to restore commonsense principles to water pollution management … Continue reading

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Seeds of Tyranny in the High Plains Initiative

After over a year of presentations, study, and controversy, this week Building the Wyoming We Want (BW3) released the final document for the High Plains Initiative (HPI).  The objective of HPI was to “encourage[] residents of Goshen and Platte counties … Continue reading

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Exposing and Ending Frivolous Environmental Litigation

Budd-Falen Law Offices (located here in Cheyenne), working with the Western Legacy Alliance, has exposed abuse by the “non-profit” environmental litigation machine.  Using a law called the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), which reimburses certain plaintiffs for legal fees … Continue reading

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