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American Stewards | National Rifle Association Joins the 30 x 30 Biden Land Grab
American Stewards (Liberty Matters News Service) The National Rifle Association (NRA) is all in with the Biden Administration’s radical 30 x 30 land grab. The organization joined the “Hunt Fish 30 x 30 Initiative,” and committed to support action to implement the program. The NRA’s press release states: “As 21st century outdoorsmen and women are aware,…
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American Stewards | Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Issues Executive Order to Stop 30 x 30
American Stewards Governor Pete Ricketts took unprecedented action and signed the “Stop 30 x 30 – Protect our Land and Water,” Executive Order 21-08 on June 24, 2021. The order directs Nebraska state agencies to take specific steps to prevent the implementation of President Biden’s 30 x 30 initiative launched January 27th, through the federal…
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American Stewards | American Stewards Helps Prepare Basis for Delisting the Golden-cheeked Warbler
American Stewards (LMNS June 8, 2021) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) placed the Golden-cheeked warbler (GCW) under federal protection in 1990, as an endangered species. The GCW’s habitat covers a wide swath of Texas land that stretches above Fort Worth and down to the Mexican border. The decision was highly controversial as many…
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American Stewards | Nebraska Governor Ricketts Holds “Stop 30 x 30” Town Hall Meetings
American Stewards (LMNS June 8, 2021) Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts has been holding “Stop 30 x 30” town hall meetings across the State to educate landowners on the program and help them identify the conservation vehicles that could be used by the federal agencies to reach the 30 percent goal. Nebraska is 97 percent private…
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American Stewards | Voluntary Conservation Programs Not Enough to Keep Lesser Prairie Chicken Off Endangered List
American Stewards (LMNS June 8, 2021) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has issued a new rule proposing to place the Lesser prairie chicken (LPC) on the Endangered Species list, again. In 2014, they issued a final rule to list the species as threatened, which was immediately challenged by the Permian Basin Petroleum Association…
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American Stewards | The Naivety of Green Republicans
American Stewards Liberty Matters News Service, News (LMNS May 25, 20201) The Washington Times published an editorial last month entitled “Embracing the GOP’s Conservative Heritage,” that illustrates the naivety of those Republicans that buy into the radical environmental agenda. The article was written by Craig Shirley, author of four books on President Ronald Reagan, and…
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American Stewards | Landowners Derail 49-County National Heritage Area
American Stewards Liberty Matters News Service, News Landowners Derail 49-County National Heritage Area (LMNS May 25, 2012) A group of educators and students from the University of Nebraska initiated an idea that developed into an effort to designate 49 counties in Nebraska and Kansas as a National Heritage Area, to preserve the legacy of author…
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American Stewards | New CRP Contract Requires Species Protection
American Stewards Liberty Matters News Service, News (LMNS May 25, 2021) A Nebraska landowner received a new contract last week to re-enroll a portion of his lands into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) offered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service. Specifically, the contract is for “re-enrolling current CRP into another CRP…
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American Stewards | Historic RS2477 Access Case Won
American Stewards Liberty Matters News Service, News (LMNS May 25, 2021) The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado issued a strong decision protecting historic R.S. 2477 rights-of-way in the West. Decided at the end of last year, the court found that two roads in Garfield County Colorado, originally connecting historic homesteads along Dry…