Tag: ranching

  • Henry Lamb – The World’s Foremost Expert on Biodiversity and its Effect on American Citizens

    Henry Lamb – The World’s Foremost Expert on Biodiversity and its Effect on American Citizens

    Originally interviewed in 2005 at the offices of his Environmental Conservation Organization in Hollow Rock, Tennessee, Henry Lamb’s words are as pertinent today as they were 13 years ago. Scholars of environmental conservation as it relates to individual property rights and freedoms granted by the Constitution may find his knowledge of interest. Listen to the audio…

  • Ramona Hage: “Federal Government Engaged in Conspiracy”

    Ramona Hage: “Federal Government Engaged in Conspiracy”

    Ramona Hage is the daughter of Wayne Hage, rancher and author of “Sagebrush Rebellion.”  Her family has been in conflict with the BLM, the Forest Service and other government agencies since 1978.  They have fought in federal court in three major cases and other water adjudications, “Just to defend what we were lawfully allowed to…

  • Young Boy Recalls the Nt’l Park Svc Ranger Pulling a Gun on His Dad

    Young Boy Recalls the Nt’l Park Svc Ranger Pulling a Gun on His Dad

    This interview with young Cody Parker was conducted in 2005 on Bobby Parker’s front porch in the Mojave Preserve.  Bobby was trenching a new water line with his privately-owned water directly adjacent to his cabin when Ranger Dingman, with the National Park Service arrived with another ranger. Dingman demanded that Bobby stop trenching and pulled his gun…

  • Caught on Tape – Bragging about stealing land in the Mojave

    Caught on Tape – Bragging about stealing land in the Mojave

    I’ve wrestled about whether or not to publish this video, but as a journalist, I believe that all sides of a story should be told.  So, you be the judge.  This was filmed at a public event (Superintendent Mary Martin’s retirement from the Mojave Preserve) with government employees (most from the Park Service) so permission…

  • Wayne Hage: Storm Over the Rangelands

    Wayne Hage: Storm Over the Rangelands

    Wayne Hage, Sr., interviewed here shortly before his death in 2006 at the age of 69,  struggled for years to preserve his rights as an American property owner and dedicated rancher.  His book, “Storm Over Rangelands,” is an important chronicle of what has happened in the West in the last three decades. It is largely…

  • Sustaining America – About the Interviews

    Sustaining America – About the Interviews

    Since 2002, I’ve been traveling the United States of America interviewing people, primarily ranchers and farmers, about their lives, their land, their families.  It started out being a film about cowboy poetry, but soon morphed into something else as I learned how difficult it has been for them to keep their businesses alive and prosperous.…