Tag: private property

Clint Flowers: When politicians override one landowner's rights, they threaten everyone's

Conservation that a landowner chooses is one thing. Conservation forced by political pressure is a different animal entirely, and pretending otherwise is how we lose the plot.

'It looked like Chernobyl': Talladega County family sues over drained private lake

A Talladega County family claims county officials devastated their property after entering their land and draining their pond.

James Kring: Public trust or private tyranny? The constitutional crisis in Alabama conservation

Property ownership separates free citizens from the oppression of totalitarian regimes – whether socialist, fascist or technocratic. Yet, in the great state of Alabama, we face a direct denial of property rights.

Suranjan Sen and Joshua Windham: Time to end warrantless snooping on private Alabama land

Army veteran Dalton Boley has a paradise in Killen near the Tennessee state line. His next-door neighbor owns 10 acres of woodland, and she licenses the space behind her home to him. But Boley has intruders.