Matthew Anderson
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Delaying prescribed burns only feeds extreme wildfires
Originally published by The Hill. Each year, Westerners watch as extreme wildfires reduce their homes and communities to ashes. It doesn’t have to be this way. Prevention — through the aggressive use of prescribed burns — could help change this narrative and bring firefighting efforts into the…
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Western states brace for most severe wildfire outbreak since 2012
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 members of Congress, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdueshared predictions of above-average potential…
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Sutherland’s Matt Anderson on For The People (KVNU)
Director of Sutherland Institute’s Coalition for Self-Government in the West, Matt Anderson speaks on an upcoming public lands panel with KVNU’s For The People. Click Here To Listen
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Sutherland testifies before Congressional Subcommittee on new lands bill
On Thursday, June 14, Sutherland Institute’s Matt Anderson, director for the Coalition for Self-Government in the West, testified in Washington, D.C., on The Enhancing State Management of Federal Lands and Waters Act before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources…
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Who manages the West’s federal lands?
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 States. That means one out of every two acres in…
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Reining in the BLM’s wild horse crisis
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 many animals roaming the land and the plight of wild horses and burros continues…
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Move the BLM to Utah, where it manages 43 percent of the state
Originally published by The Hill. The Department of the Interior is facing the largest reorganization in its 168-year history. Hundreds of millions of acres will be profoundly impacted by the choices the department makes in the coming month. Of the…
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A lobbyist’s role in American democracy
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 joined Rep. John Curtis, acting director of the Bureau of Land Management Brian Steed, and…
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The mad rush of Bears Ears mining claims that never happened
Originally published in the Washington Examiner. When the Outdoor Retailer and Snow Shows debuted last month in Denver, attendees surveyed the latest and greatest in outdoor recreation equipment. But even with all this novelty and innovation, the same old rhetoric about…
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How to fix the unintended consequences of Grand Staircase-Escalante
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 stroke of a pen, nearly 2 million acres of land in southern Utah had been unilaterally designated as…