The Reineckes won their permit—but the fight to restore Americans’ property rights goes on
In the past decade, the median home price in the United States has increased by more than 40 percent, and recent estimates show that America has a shortage of between 1.5 million and 6.5 million homes. Experts increasingly agree that the housing crisis stems from a lack of new construction, but onerous—and often unconstitutional—land-use reg ...
The Wall Street Journal highlights a family’s fight to protect their lumber business
Thirty-one years ago, Kirk Dahlstrom rolled the dice on a bankrupt sawmill in Southeastern Alaska. Joined by a few family members and a lifelong friend, Kirk moved his wife and children to Prince of Wales Island to chase his American Dream and launch Viking Lumber. Today, Viking Lumber provides wood to some of the largest and most prominent i ...
The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast : This land is their land
Ethan Blevins, legal fellow at Pacific Legal Foundation, recently joined The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast for a lively discussion on the issue of federal land in the United States. Charles and Ethan explored the history of federal land management, the federal government's shift away from homesteading toward a policy of land retention, the issue o ...