Nicole Yeatman

Property Rights

The Wild History of the New West

Cecil Andrus, Secretary of the Interior in the Carter administration, stood before a room filled with members of the National Wildlife Foundation. It was...

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John Harris, Farmer and Horse Racer

Midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, off I-5 on the Western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, sits Harris Farms and Harris Ranch—a...

Property Rights

There Will Be Rules

Cameron Edwards wakes up with the sun every morning. His land in Logan County, Kansas, stretches over 7,000 acres purchased by his grandfather and...

Property Rights

Thrown to the Wolves

As the sun slips behind the mountain ridges in Sierra Valley, California, local ranchers fear their livestock won’t survive the night. Nearly every inch of...

Property Rights

A Red Rock Legacy Under Threat

When you ask Chris Heaton how he feels about the land he works on, his voice changes. “It’s literally home,” he says simply. “It’s sacred.” The...

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John C. Frémont stood on a peak in the Rocky Mountains, dressed in buckskin. It was 1842. Frémont was a roguish Army topographer from Charleston, South Carolina, who had charm, no money, and a scandalous family history.

Property Rights

Forget It, It’s the Coastal Commission

The central mystery of the 1974 neo-noir film Chinatown is an imagined water heist in California: A powerful man is stealing water during a...

Property Rights

Rockets in the Dark

The commissioners sat at a half-circle dais, all facing a nearly empty room. Because they weren’t looking at each other, they sometimes got confused about when it was their turn to speak. “I can’t tell who’s talking,” a commissioner said at one point.

Property Rights

The No Trespassing Sign

It should have been easy. Dennis and Leah Seider just needed a sign to mark their property. There are 27 miles of public beaches...

Property Rights

Apocalypse on the Beach

The fire alarms started around noon. By 2:30 p.m., the flames had spread from Agoura Hills, a small town in the Santa Monica mountains, to the shoreline 13 miles away.

Property Rights

Mystery of the Sand Dunes

A half-mile from the Morro Sand Dunes in Los Osos, California, in a quiet residential neighborhood—the kind of sun-kissed neighborhood where neighbors walk to...

Economic Freedom