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Whether building at Las Vegas or solar development at Dry Lake, development causes habitat destruction. Designated areas are set aside as "mitigation" for the destruction at these developing areas.

Gold Butte is one of these areas.

The master-mind planners dismiss the fact that the Bundy family have been using the land for over a century.

Removal of grazing acreage is part of the establishing of these designated areas:

The Clark County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) [at dropbox link above] has "resulted in the removal of 700,000 acres of habitat from cattle grazing."

Gold Butte is viewed as a "mitigation bank":

The County Commissioners "support the development of a Reserve System, consisting of lands currently managed by the BLM, to be transferred to the Permittees [City Managers and others from Las Vegas, Boulder City, Mesquite, and Henderson] for the purposes of long-term conservation of species and mitigation of impacts in the developing areas of Clark County, thereby providing greater control over conservation efforts and maximizing the efficiency of the MSHCP."

See the Community Advisory Committee recommendations report [at dropbox link above] and the Board of County Commissioners' Resolution accepting the report [at dropbox link above].

Whether his cattle were on public land is a separate issue but it provides the pretense to illegally take property and business.

A man is being dispossessed of his business so that other businesses may benefit. The power of government is facilitating this theft.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3144528/posts

In the above thread toward the end it mentions the change of laws in the 1990’s Can you get hold of those documents

Also is this the same federal land that was used as collateral to secure the Chinese loans? Where does one go to find that documentation?

“A man is being dispossessed of his business so that other businesses may benefit. The power of government is facilitating this theft.”

That’s what some of us have been saying all along.

“Follow the money”

Thank you. This makes it very clear that the conflict is EPA driven and the results are in pitting Nevada developers against ranchers using a mitigation bank.

The federal statutes need to be changed to allow for grazing as a means of wildfire mitigation.

The analysis of the desert tortoise problem needs reexamination and solutions need to include the human element of cattle grazing or goat herding. Humans and their animal migration are part of the environment in every sense of all other creatures that have migrated and established themselves.