EPA finalizes repeal of controversial Obama-era rule defining “Waters of the United States” Last week marked a major win for the rule of law, property rights, and the environment: the Trump administration finalized its repeal of President Barack Obama’s infamous 2015...
On July 17, 2019, President Trump re-nominated Aurelia Skipwith to serve as the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The president first nominated her to the same position in October 2018, but the Senate failed to confirm her before the Congressional...
As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service continues to work on its 5-year review of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, FLA has been working with the Service to ensure that the interests and impact of private forest landowners are fully understood. As a part of these...
The Trump administration has announced major changes in the way the Endangered Species Act (ESA) will be implemented, to reduce the system’s regulatory impact on private interests. On August 12, 2019, the Administration finalized three new rules governing the...
Forestry’s only family business conference drew a diversity of family forest owners from across the country. Every year, the FLA conference attracts a diversity of attendees, and this year we witnessed an increase across the spectrum in families and forestry...
Are core forest landowners falling in the gap among USFS NWOS surveys focused on small wood lot owners, urban tree owners, and large-scale corporations? Although the NWOS, released regularly since 1993, is the government’s most thorough assessment of family forest...
