
Silt, Solar Satellites, and Property Rights with Hank Vogler
Nevada rancher Hank Vogler joins Trent Loos on Rural Route to tackle water, energy, and private property rights. After Las Vegas flooding, Hank explains how silt buildup in Lake Mead and Lake Powell shrinks reservoir capacity and argues sediment removal should be standard practice. Talk turns to politics, third-party voting, and Trent’s 27 years of property rights advocacy against government-funded wind, solar, AI data centers, and transmission lines. Hank questions a Caltech solar satellite project’s impact on White Pine County grazing land, mining communications, and taxes, plus a 3,500-foot Nevada Energy right-of-way. Trent eyes Arizona alfalfa exports to Saudi Arabia.







