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Bookmark or Share- Sagebrush Rebellion - WikipediaThe 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.
- The first Sagebrush Rebellion: What sparked it and how it endedWhat 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...
- 1980 Sagebrush Rebellion - Forest History SocietyWith 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.
- America’s Sagebrush Rebellion never ended - The EconomistThe 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 ...
- Western Lands and the Rise of the Political Right - JSTOR DailyThe first popular outburst against this new federal role in the West was known as the Sagebrush Rebellion. Backed by an alliance of Western residents and natural resource industries, the Sagebrush Rebels in the 1970s launched an overt anti-environmental campaign.
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