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Standing Ground Together
Standing Ground | Sept 2009 | Dan Byfield -- It has been nearly 16 years in the making. Two of the nation’s most recognized private property rights organizations have finally merged to become American Stewards of Liberty. You can trace our beginning all the way back to when Wayne Hage of Nevada met Mike Dail of Texas – two icons in the property rights movement. Wayne had just published his ...
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History of Stewards of the Range
On September 26, 1991, my parents, Wayne and Jean Hage, filed an unprecedented takings case against the federal government. They claimed ownership of property rights in the federal grazing lands, which the land management agencies had taken through environmental regulations. Hage v. United States marked the first time a western rancher had made such a bold claim in the U.S. Court of Federal...
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History of American Land Foundation
A Profile in DeterminationBy the time the American Land Foundation was created in 1993, laws like the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act had already been on the books for 20 years. That meant the environmental community had a huge jump start at destroying private property in America.However, a few individuals at the Farm Credit Bank of Te...
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Standing on Shoulders of Giants: Tribute to Wayne Hage and Frank Duran
Standing Ground | March 2007 | Margaret Byfield -- You might say Stewards of the Range is in large part, the product of a lifelong friendship between two men; one thrust into the public with his cause, the other standing squarely behind ensuring the course. Neither could have contributed quite as much to the property rights agenda they treasured had it not ...
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Our History
