ROB CHANEY
When a federal court ruled the federal Bureau of Land Management skipped crucial steps in approving resource management plans for Montana last year, it reflected a trend tainting much of the environmental rule-making under the Trump administration.
âTheyâre having a remarkably low level of success,â Georgetown Law School environmental law professor Bill Buzbee said of the past four yearsâ regulatory court progress. âTheir loss record is 70 to 90 percent under Trump. Those agencies usually win 70 percent of the time.â
He attributed the reversal to a consistent failure by policy makers to check all the boxes necessary to avoid appearing arbitrary and capricious â the standard federal rules get judged under the Administrative Procedures Act. To endure, a federal rule must show it had well-documented reasons for a change and went through a complete public review process.
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Why legal hunting can actually save wildlife not harm it
Conserving wildlife is a nonpartisan issue. Don’t make it divisive. By iStock
It is unfortunate that anti-hunters and many environmentalists have chosen to start 2021 with divisive rhetoric intended to paint hunters and Republicans as cruel and evil individuals. Contrary to what they would have you believe, legal, regulated hunting is an inherently nonpartisan activity enjoyed by millions of Americans from every demographic. Furthermore, hunters are ardent conservationists. Decades of wildlife science prove the symbiotic relationship between hunting and effective conservation.
The most evident example of this relationship is the billions of tax dollars granted to state wildlife agencies since Congress passed the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act in 1937, commonly known as the Pittman–Robertson Act. To this day, this law provides states with conservation dollars stemming