by Matthew Anderson and Payton Hampton | Aug 23, 2018
Delaying prescribed burns only feeds extreme wildfires Written by Matthew Anderson and Payton Hampton August 23, 2018 Originally published by The Hill. Each year, Westerners watch as extreme wildfires reduce their homes and communities to ashes. It...
by Matthew Anderson | Jun 28, 2018
Western states brace for most severe wildfire outbreak since 2012 Written by Matthew Anderson June 28, 2018 Originally published by The Hill. Smoke is beginning to rise from the West’s public lands — and it is just a taste of what’s to come. In a briefing to...
by Matthew Anderson | Jun 26, 2018
Sutherland’s Matt Anderson on For The People (KVNU) 0 Comments Written by Matthew Anderson June 26, 2018 Director of Sutherland Institute’s Coalition for Self-Government in the West, Matt Anderson speaks on an upcoming public lands panel with...
by Matthew Anderson | Jun 14, 2018
Sutherland testifies before Congressional Subcommittee on new lands bill 0 Comments Written by Matthew Anderson June 14, 2018 On Thursday, June 14, Sutherland Institute’s Matt Anderson, director for the Coalition for Self-Government in the West,...
by Matthew Anderson | May 21, 2018
Who manages the West’s federal lands? Written by Matthew Anderson May 21, 2018 The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres – about 28 percent of the entire country – and nearly 90 percent of this land is located in the western United...
by Matthew Anderson | May 21, 2018
Reining in the BLM’s wild horse crisis Written by Matthew Anderson May 21, 2018 Originally published by The Hill. Few symbols embody the American West like wild horses galloping through an endless sea of sagebrush. Unfortunately, there are now too...
by Matthew Anderson | May 2, 2018
Move the BLM to Utah, where it manages 43 percent of the state Written by Matthew Anderson May 2, 2018 Originally published by The Hill. The Department of the Interior is facing the largest reorganization in its 168-year history. Hundreds of millions...
by Matthew Anderson | Apr 13, 2018
A lobbyist’s role in American democracy Written by Matthew Anderson April 13, 2018 The following remarks were presented in March 2018 by Sutherland’s Matthew Anderson during Rep. Rob Bishop’s annual education conference at the Utah State Capitol. Anderson...
by Matthew Anderson | Feb 19, 2018
The mad rush of Bears Ears mining claims that never happened Written by Matthew Anderson February 19, 2018 Originally published in the Washington Examiner. When the Outdoor Retailer and Snow Shows debuted last month in Denver, attendees surveyed the latest...
by Matthew Anderson | Feb 16, 2018
How to fix the unintended consequences of Grand Staircase-Escalante Written by Matthew Anderson February 16, 2018 Originally published by The Hill. On a September morning in 1996, then-Gov. Mike Leavitt of Utah opened the newspaper to read that, with the...
