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OCTOBER 23, 2011 

WE THE PEOPLE RADIO

WE THE PEOPLE RADIO
 
Property Rights
www.BuddFalen.com
 
Today's guest: Karen Bud-Falen (Property Rights Attorney)
 

 KAREN BUDD-FALEN

Karen Budd-Falen is an attorney, and with her husband Frank Falen, is the owner of the Budd-Falen Law Offices, L.L.C. located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Before moving back to Wyoming, Karen served for three years in the Reagan Administration, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management. She later served as a law clerk to the Assistant Solicitor for Water and Power. Karen has also worked as an attorney at Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative public interest legal foundation located in Denver, Colorado.  
Karen represents private property owners, ranching and farming organizations, and local governments. Karen has assisted local governments in asserting their rights of cooperation and coordination in federal agency decisions, private property owners in protecting their Constitutionally guaranteed property rights, ranches and other multiple users in supporting grazing rights and multiple use on federal/public lands and exposing radical environmental groups’ abuse of the legal system and attorney fee shifting statutes.

Karen's most recent publications include, How To Survive the Bureaucratic Maze - A Guide to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Appeals Process, 1989; Ecosystem Management: Will National Forests be "Managed" Into National Parks?, 1991; The Right to Graze Livestock on the Federal Lands: The Historical Development of Western Grazing Rights, Idaho Law Review, Spring, 1994; Protecting Community Stability and Local Economies: Opportunities for County Government Influence in Federal Decision and Policy Making Processes, Whitman College, 1996; and Counterpoint: Opportunities Lost and Opportunities Gained: Separating Truth from Myth in the Western Ranching Debate, Karen Budd-Falen editor, Lewis and Clark Law School Environmental Law, 2006.

Karen has been featured in Newsweek Magazine's "Who's Who: 20 for the Future" for her work on property rights issues (September 30, 1991). Karen was awarded Wyoming’s Outstanding Ag Citizen from the State of Wyoming’s agriculture citizens in 2001, the “Always There Helping” award from the New Mexico Stock Growers Association in 2003 and the “Bud’s Contract” award from the New Mexico Public Lands Council in 2006. Karen has presented testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Forest Health, Washington, D.C., April 8, 1997, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources, October 26, 1998, and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources Task Force on Improving the National Environmental Policy Act, August 1, 2005. Karen has also testified before interim committees of the Wyoming Legislature.

Karen is an active volunteer and mentor for Future Farmers of America (“FFA”) and We the People competitions. Karen grew up as a fifth generation rancher on a family-owned ranch in Big Piney, Wyoming. She received her undergraduate degrees and her law degree in 1987 from the University of Wyoming. Karen and Frank have two children, Isaac and Sarah.

300 East 18th Street • Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001 • (307)632-5105
karen@buddfalen.com
 

 
KLAMATH RIVER BASIN MAP

Clamath River Basin PDF

Click on Map for a larger view.   REF:http://www.energy.ca.gov/klamath/
 
DR COFFMAN'S BIODIVERSITY MAP

Dr. Coffman's Biodiversity Map

 

Karen Budd-Falen speaks at Siskiyou County Sheriffs Panel.

 
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Websites and material mentioned on today's program:
www.BuddFalen.com
www.ConstitutionalSheriffs.com
www.SupportRuralAmerica.com    
 
 

 

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