Eli Fournier

“Federal Land Can Be Home Sweet Home,” at least according to some of the country’s top brass. Earlier this week, Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner wrote an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal announcing a new partnership to develop...

From a public lands perspective, the new administration is tough to keep up with. Notably this week, Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum has opted not to release the agency’s plan for cutting regulations and scaling up energy production on 500 million acres of land. Senators Martin Heinrich and Jared...

Last week, the Trump Administration fired 3,400 Forest Service employees across the country. The firings targeted employees in probationary periods regardless of their length of service with the agency. Positions terminated included new hires and mid- and upper-level employees who recently took new...

Poaching busts take a lot of time and effort from game wardens, and a recent conviction in central Montana was no exception. An affidavit filed in a Montana district court outlines the efforts Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wardens took to track down two men who poached multiple bull elk and stabbed...