An Arizona cattleman says Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs moved to strip his family of state-leased grazing land and hand it to a foreign green energy corporation, a plan he believes would already have succeeded if not for intervention during President Trumps administration.
According to the Gateway Pundit, fifth-generation rancher Casey Murph, who operates the H-Y Cattle Company in Navajo County, told President Trump on Friday that Hobbs has targeted the roughly 4,000 acres his family has used since the 1870s for a solar project proposed by Danish energy giant rsted. Murphs family began working the land decades before Arizona achieved statehood in 1912, a reminder that todays political class is attempting to reorder property use that predates the very government now asserting control.
Murph recounted that in 2022 he started receiving formal notices from the state indicating that foreign renewable-energy developers were eyeing his leased acreage for an industrial-scale project. In 2025, Hobbs signed an executive order that granted large-scale energy infrastructure manufacturers priority access to state lands and loosened restrictions on so-called green energy ventures, effectively putting long-established ranchers at the back of the line.
Her task force created a map of all the state lands throughout the state and color-coded those lands according to solar favorability, Murph previously said, explaining that bureaucrats had decided his grazing land was less suitable for agriculture than renewable energy. During an executive order signing ceremony on Friday, he warned President Trump that Hobbs wants to kick him off his familys land of over a century to build a solar energy plant, turning generational stewardship into collateral damage for climate politics.
Its been in my family for over 100 years. Katie Hobbs has offered those lands up to solar development companies, Murph said, underscoring how progressive energy mandates can trample property rights and rural livelihoods. If it had not been for your Secretary of Agriculture, I would already be gone, sir. Shes managed to hold him off, not permanently, but if it hadnt been for her, I would not be a rancher anymore.
At the same event, President Trump signed an executive order titled Supporting Americas Ranchers to remove the gray wolf and the Mexican wolf from the protected species list, a move long sought by Western ranchers who bear the cost of federal wildlife policies. The President said that the order is authorizing ranchers to protect rural communities and cattle herds from predatory Mexican greywolves, which are costing them tens of millions of dollars and endangering not only herds but people.
You can shoot them as of today, Trump told the assembled ranchers, pending a determination by the Secretary of the Interior to delist or downlist the wolves under the Endangered Species Act. For families like the Murphs, the Presidents actions signal a federal government finally siding with producers over predatorswhether those predators are four-legged killers or foreign-backed green-energy schemes advanced by liberal state officials.
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