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For 50 years, this rancher followed labor law. As big ag lobbies for amnesty, he is about to lose his legal crew.
Nevada rancher Hank Vogler says bureaucrats have made the H-2A farmworker program a "living hell."
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Trump admin announces agriculture security plan including crackdown on Chinese farmland ownership; Rollins says no amnesty for illegal…
"We are taking our farmland back."
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Keely Covello
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EXPLOSIVE: Newly-revealed 2023 seismic reports show Potter Valley dams "safe for continued use"
This after pro-dam removal politicians such as Congressman Jared Huffman have for years characterized the Potter Valley Project as dangerous and…
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Keely Covello
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Lawman of the Emerald: Sheriff Matt Kendall on Cartels, Weed, and Water Wars
Matt Kendall is a sheriff in the heart of California's cannabis country, the epicenter of black market marijuana production, dominated by transnational…
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Keely Covello
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Trump stops Snake River dam removals, says Biden plan elevated fish over citizens
Farmers and rural communities in the Pacific Northwest are celebrating the move as a win for citizen interests.
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South Dakota ranching couple indicted by Forest Service for fence in place since 1950
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Why Los Angeles Is Burning
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Ag Secretary Rollins announces charges against South Dakota ranchers DROPPED
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Mother of the South Dakota rancher facing prison over pre-1950 fence calls on Trump for help
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For 50 years, this rancher followed labor law. As big ag lobbies for amnesty, he is about to lose his legal crew.
Nevada rancher Hank Vogler says bureaucrats have made the H-2A farmworker program a "living hell."
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Keely Covello
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Washington ranch family facing $267,000 fine, terminated grazing leases, and possible criminal charges
The King family is accused of damaging "wetlands" because of Google Earth photos officials claim show the area was dredged.
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Keely Covello
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Mother of the South Dakota rancher facing prison over pre-1950 fence calls on Trump for help
Charles and Heather Maude each face 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines over an inherited fence built before 1950.
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Keely Covello
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Jack Varian of V6 Ranch: The Hippie Rancher
“The more radical people in the cities are, the more selfish and single-minded they are. How do you change that mindset? You bring them. Bring them out…
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The Land Is Her Legacy: Sagehorn-Russell Ranch in Northern California
"Never sell the bones of your mother and father." Chief Joseph
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New Jersey farm to be seized by state for affordable housing
“My family sacrificed on this land for 175 years. All the other farms disappeared. We did not. We will not.”
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Dam DISASTER with Theodora Johnson: Water, Wolves, and Ranching on the Klamath River
Theodora Johnson is a rancher and a journalist in Siskiyou County, California.
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Dam removals devastated the Klamath. Will agriculture take the fall?
In a dire warning for planned dam removals across the American West, journalist Theodora Johnson reveals the dark truth about the Klamath Dam removals…
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Back-to-back cannabis murders rock Northern California, sheriff says cartel involved
Sheriff says transnational drug trafficking organizations are operating on an Indian reservation. The same tribe is suing law enforcement over marijuana…
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Family calls for justice in unsolved murder of Humboldt County rancher; names suspected killer
Dick Drewry's murder was the subject of "High Country Murder," a 2024 short documentary from UNWON.
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Keely Covello
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Country Music with J.B. Zielke: Six-Continent Cowboy
J.B. Zielke on herdsmen, music, and founding the Woodstock of Western grit (it's happening this weekend in Gillette, Wyoming).
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Heather Maude: Fighting for the American Dream
Heather Maude is finally free to speak about her case and what the federal government put her family through.
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Washington ranch family facing $267,000 fine, terminated grazing leases, and possible criminal charges
The King family is accused of damaging "wetlands" because of Google Earth photos officials claim show the area was dredged.
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Keely Covello
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"Big beautiful bill" seizes federal power for CO2 pipeline land grabs
The current budget reconciliation bill threatens American property rights. At the center of the fight: a controversial CO2 pipeline project backed by…
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Keely Covello
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AMERICANS LAST: The environmental lawsuits and government water cuts that led to planned Potter Valley dam removals
The real story of backroom deals, bureaucratic red tape, and NGO muscle set to disenfranchise 600,000 water users in California's North Coast.
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Keely Covello
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Grand Canyon Mules with Casey Murph: Keeping the West Alive
Casey Murph on running the Grand Canyon mule string, ranching in Arizona, and keeping the Old West alive.
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Keely Covello
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California officials may ban coyote killing. North State sheriffs say predator attacks are already at crisis level.
“What skin is it off the back of some biologist who has been programmed to think that ranchers don’t matter? We're going to turn the working man into a…
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LONESOME LANDS: Gavin Newsom's Plan to Remove Dams and Destroy Communities
Jim Mundorf and Keely Covello talk about the dams Gavin Newsom is allowing PG&E to destroy on Northern California's Eel River.
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CALIFORNIA UNDERGROUND: Point Reyes, Potter Valley Project, Black Market Cannabis, and California Ranching
Ep. 302: Keely Covello of America Unwon
BREAKING POINTS: Keely Covello on the Potter Valley Project
James Li of "Beyond the Headlines" had Covello on to discuss the dam removals scheduled for Northern California.
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6 RANCH PODCAST: Hardcore Investigative Journalism with Keely Covello
James Nash is the host of the 6 Ranch Podcast.
PRO AG PODCAST: Among Outlaws on America's Lands with Keely Covello, with Bonus Special Episode Reading "Hippies & Cowboys"
Host ag journalist Rachel Gabel discussed with Covello what is happening on public lands where cartels and black market cannabis operations have an…

Politics

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Trump admin announces agriculture security plan including crackdown on Chinese farmland ownership; Rollins says no amnesty for illegal…
"We are taking our farmland back."
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Keely Covello
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Lawmakers and Trump officials gather in D.C. to show support as federal government drops charges against Maude family
“Just imagine a government that would be willing to de facto orphan American children over a mere dispute of 25 acres of land,” said Secretary Brooke…
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Keely Covello
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Neighbors of indicted South Dakota ranchers speak to decades of bullying from Forest Service
Charles and Heather Maude’s case highlights growing tensions between government agencies and the 2% of Americans still working in production…
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Keely Covello
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Mother of the South Dakota rancher facing prison over pre-1950 fence calls on Trump for help
Charles and Heather Maude each face 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines over an inherited fence built before 1950.
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Keely Covello
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REPORT: Anti-Farm Activism Funded by Fake Meat Investors
Anti-farm ballot initiatives in California and Colorado received funding from venture capitalists with large holdings in vegan alternative food…
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Top posts
South Dakota ranching couple indicted by Forest Service for fence in place since 1950
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280
Why Los Angeles Is Burning
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161
Ag Secretary Rollins announces charges against South Dakota ranchers DROPPED
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52
Mother of the South Dakota rancher facing prison over pre-1950 fence calls on Trump for help
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63
BEFORE POINT REYES: In 1997, the Park Service Sent a Blackhawk to Raid the Last Holdout Ranch on Santa Cruz Island
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Opinion

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AMERICANS LAST: The environmental lawsuits and government water cuts that led to planned Potter Valley dam removals
The real story of backroom deals, bureaucratic red tape, and NGO muscle set to disenfranchise 600,000 water users in California's North Coast.
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Keely Covello
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Destroying the Potter Valley Project Won't Save the Salmon: 8 Truths About What Happened to the Eel River
Save the salmon? 8 truths about the downfall of fisheries in the Eel River.
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Steven Elliott
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President Trump: The American West Needs Your Attention
As Trump takes office again, a look ahead at our generation's fight for the unwon American West.
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Keely Covello
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Why We Need Independent Journalists from Rural, Ranching America
I started UNWON to shine a light on the people who build, feed, clothe, and defend a nation; the ones you can't see from the road.
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