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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.
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...
Learn about the history and challenges of ranching in northern Nevada, especially during the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s. Explore articles, essays, audio, and video from the Library of Congress folklife project on the Ninety-Six Ranch.
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.
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 ...
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.
How the Sagebrush Rebellion and the wise-use movement shaped the conservative politics of the West and the nation. Learn how Western opposition to federal land management helped Republicans gain power and influence in Congress.
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.
An article from 1981 that explains the origins and implications of the Sagebrush Rebellion, a movement to transfer federal lands to state control in the western U.S. The article focuses on Nevada's claim to public domain lands managed by BLM.