Trump’s energy dominance agenda keeps losing in the courts

President Donald Trump is using the National Park Service as a conduit to funnel money to his favorite construction firms and using Interior Secretary Doug Burgum as his bagman, as the duo spends excessive taxpayer money on Trump’s vanity projects in Washington, D.C., while strangling the rest of the Park Service. In a new Westwise blog post, […]

Voters want national monuments protected in perpetuity, as promised With President-elect Donald Trump about to take office, America’s national monuments are once again in danger. Project 2025, the policy handbook written by former Trump officials, clearly lays out a plan to roll back national monument protections and eliminate the Antiquities Act, which presidents from both parties have […]

The Biden administration on Monday unveiled a $7.3 trillion Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal to fund the federal government. While the proposal is not expected to be enacted as written, it highlights the Biden administration’s policy priorities for the final year of his first term. In particular, the spending proposal requests a boost in funding for the […]

“This day one list is a strong down payment on the future of our public lands.”

In the last century, over-pumping and redirection of surface waters for irrigation left behind dry wetlands, earning the Blanca WHA a local nickname: “Dry Lakes.” In the 1960s, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) intervened, leading a restoration development effort.

Now, LWCF has stepped in to play its part in the on-going effort to acquire the water rights necessary to fully restore and maintain the Blanca WHA.