A Colorado-based adventure tour operator is suing the Biden administration for trying to force his company to pay its employees $15 per hour starting next month, a rate of compensation that the company’s founder says would drive his business into bankruptcy. Entrepreneur Duke Bradford founded Arkansas Valley Adventures (AVA) in 1998. Currently, the company has 250 employees who provide outdoor experiences throughout the year, including guided, multi-day river rafting wilderness trips. Because Colorado’s rivers go through federal land, rafting businesses such as AVA require special use permits from the federal government. The businesses pay the government a fixed percentage of service fees and receive an annual lease to conduct rafting trips on lands owned or managed by the federal government. In May 2018, then-President Donald Trump wanted to make it clear that recreational service providers using federal lands shouldn’t be subject to a minimum wage rule. Trump signed Executive Order …