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USDA Secretary Warns Against Potter Valley Dam Removal in Open Letter
In a letter to The Mendocino Voice, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the proposed decommissioning would cut off water to rural communities…
Dec 13
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Responding to the Eel-Russian Project Authority's Rebuttal of UNWON
The joint powers authority behind the Two-Basin Solution is accusing UNWON of "misinformation."
Dec 12
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Rollins Threatens to Pull Washington State Funding Over King Ranch Case
Secretary Rollins warns the state may lose funding after hitting a longtime cattle operation with $267,540 in fines over maintaining stock watering…
Dec 10
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BREAKING: Secretary Rollins to Potter Valley: “The Trump Administration Is Listening”
Citing threats to farmers and rural communities, Rollins accuses state leaders of prioritizing “special interests and political ambition.”
Dec 8
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Leaked Tribal Meeting Upends ‘Two-Basin Solution’: RVIT Attorney Says All Diversions Will End
“There will come a time, when, no matter what happens, the diversions will stop…That will happen for sure.”
Dec 5
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RANCH BEAT: What You Should Know About EHV-1 with Dr. Rich Brazil
Everything you need to know about the current EHV-1 outbreak, plus a few vet questions for Dr. Brazil.
Dec 4
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Keely Covello
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UPDATE: FERC extends deadline for comments on Potter Valley Project fate to Dec 19
Requests for more time came from the Dept. of Interior, Forest Service, Lake County, Rep. Doug LaMalfa, America First Policy Institute, and private…
Dec 3
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THE FREEMAN: Thanksgiving & the State of the Harvest
Keely Covello writes for “The Freeman” on America’s agricultural holiday and the land.
Nov 28
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PG&E asks feds to make water cuts on Potter Valley farmers & ranchers permanent
The community has until December 1 to respond.
Nov 27
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Mexican Gray Wolf: Crisis in the Southwest with Tate Bennett
Tate Bennett, director of rural policy at the America First Policy Institute, explains what is happening in Arizona and New Mexico.
Nov 22
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Keely Covello
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New WOTUS rule cuts red tape for farmers and ranchers
The EPA is redefining which waters fall under federal jurisdiction, fulfilling a 2016 Trump campaign promise.
Nov 20
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Keely Covello
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Maude Update: Heather Maude on How Bureaucracy is Killing Ranching
Listen now | Checking in with Heather Maude six months after the press conference in D.C. where charges against her family were dropped.
Nov 14
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Keely Covello
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FERC requests public comments on Potter Valley Project
Weigh in on the future of Lake Pillsbury and North Coast water supply.
Nov 12
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Keely Covello
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Rollins Threatens to Pull Washington State Funding Over King Ranch Case
Secretary Rollins warns the state may lose funding after hitting a longtime cattle operation with $267,540 in fines over maintaining stock watering…
Dec 10
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Keely Covello
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Ranchers hopeful as Trump announces DOJ investigation into meatpackers
Four companies control 85% of the U.S. meatpacking industry. Two are foreign-owned.
Nov 11
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USDA chief responds to UNWON reporting on King Ranch: "Help is on the way"
The King family has been targeted by the state of Washington for alleged damage to wetlands the family says are stock ponds.
Nov 7
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Ranchers react to Trump comments on importing Argentine beef: "America first? The independent rancher is always dead freakin' last."
Without country of origin labeling, ranchers say increasing imports is a betrayal.
Oct 21
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California plan redistributes prime farmland in the name of "equity"
California Democrats release a draft plan that would de facto nationalize farmland, redistributing it to "socially disadvantaged" farmers along largely…
Oct 3
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Politics
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UPDATE: FERC extends deadline for comments on Potter Valley Project fate to Dec 19
Requests for more time came from the Dept. of Interior, Forest Service, Lake County, Rep. Doug LaMalfa, America First Policy Institute, and private…
Dec 3
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New WOTUS rule cuts red tape for farmers and ranchers
The EPA is redefining which waters fall under federal jurisdiction, fulfilling a 2016 Trump campaign promise.
Nov 20
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Keely Covello
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USDA chief responds to UNWON reporting on King Ranch: "Help is on the way"
The King family has been targeted by the state of Washington for alleged damage to wetlands the family says are stock ponds.
Nov 7
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Prop 50 silences rural California
It was designed to.
Nov 4
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Keely Covello
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Amid noisy week in beef policy, USDA drops plan to fortify American ranching
It's the first government plan in decades aimed at revitalizing cattle ranching.
Oct 24
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Keely Covello
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Film
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NATIONAL AG DAY: Trailer for "You Just Can't See Them From the Road"
Watch now (3 mins) | Coming soon: "You Just Can't See Them From the Road" is a film about the vanishing ranches of the American West, by Keely Brazil…
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Hippies & Cowboys: The Murder of Mendocino County Rancher Dick Drewry
When 85 year-old rancher Richard Drewry was killed, I went home to shoot a documentary about his case and the changes in †my town. Nothing could have…
Nov 23, 2024
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Premiere on Capitol Hill
Thoughts on our recent documentary short, its premiere on Capitol Hill, my return to D.C. as an independent journalist, the state of journalism, and the…
Nov 21, 2024
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WATCH NOW: High Country Murder
Where ranchers share the mountains with cartels, in a town known for secrets, two sisters return home to the ranch to try and solve the murder of an…
Nov 20, 2024
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"You Just Can't See Them From the Road" (2023)
Coming to your screen soon…
Sep 3, 2024
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UNWON News
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LIKE IT OR NOT PODCAST: Potter Valley Dam Removal
Episode #200 - Potter Valley Dam Removal feat. Keely Covello
Sep 30
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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.
Apr 4
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CALIFORNIA UNDERGROUND: Point Reyes, Potter Valley Project, Black Market Cannabis, and California Ranching
Ep. 302: Keely Covello of America Unwon
Mar 6
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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.
Feb 23
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6 RANCH PODCAST: Hardcore Investigative Journalism with Keely Covello
James Nash is the host of the 6 Ranch Podcast.
Feb 3
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South Dakota ranching couple indicted by Forest Service for fence in place since 1950
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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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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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PRIVATE BUSINESS DECISION? The truth about NGO lawsuits and government water cuts behind 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.
May 16
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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.
Feb 18
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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.
Jan 21
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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.
Jan 3
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