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The Sagebrush Rebellion was a movement in the Western United States in the 1970s and the 1980s that sought major changes to federal land control, use, and disposal policy in 13 western states in which federal land holdings include between 20% and 85% of a state's area.
Jan 14, 2016 · What sparked it: Many miners, loggers and ranchers of the West were rebelling against “federal colonialism” that came in the form of environmental laws, from the Wilderness Act to the...
The 1970s brought the "Sagebrush Rebellion," a period that saw especially tense relations between cattlemen and federal land managers. The tension increased following the 1974 lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council against the secretary of the interior.
The Sagebrush Rebellion began in Nevada and rapidly spread throughout the West during the late 1970s and into the early 1980s. Broadly speaking, it is the movement to transfer public lands from the federal government to the individual states.
A political movement in certain western states during the late 1970s, sparked by passage of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act in 1976. The federal government owns an average of 60% of the land in the twelve states that include the Rockies or lie west of them.
Jan 4, 2016 · The Sagebrush Rebellion has roots that go back to the early 1900s, when the federal government first started reserving public lands and developing water for early settlements.
With support from the in-coming President and his controversial Secretary of the Interior James Watt, Sagebrush Rebels seemed poised for success and many observers expressed concern that the states' rights movement would reach for other federal lands, including national forests.
May 29, 2021 · The animosity towards the ESA and other federal regulations on land use in the West boiled over in the form of the Sagebrush Rebellion in the late 1970s. The rebels—a coalition of ranchers ...
The War of Words. A editorial comic showing that the fedral government is trying to "steal" the public land. [8] Utah State University, Merrill-Crazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, MSS 200, Box #1, Folder #11.
EVEN the most ardent supporters of reduced federal land holdings in the West could not have envisioned the chain of events that followed passage of A.B. 413 by the Nevada Legislature in 1979.
