Editor’s note: The following story from High Country News is good and accurate reading regarding the legal arm of the Wise Use Movement. I once met William Perry Pendley, who oversees the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which also included former Interior Secy. Gail Norton on their staff, and was impressed. I was moderating a hearing on wetlands in North Dakota, and Pendley attacked wetland regulations. He was effective, illustrating his presentation with bullet points and anecdotes that suggested he was telling the truth, as each showed the ominous federal agovernment abusing private property owners. I checked the stories out and found a grain of truth in each, though most were greatly magnified.
Anyway, read the story...it's worth your time.