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Aging sagebrush rebel keeps up fight against feds
AP via SFGate ^ | 11/27/11 | JOHN MILLER, Associated Press

Posted on 11/27/2011 10:26:08 AM PST by SmithL

A 75-year-old lawyer who fought private property rights battles alongside Idaho U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth and her Nevada rancher husband Wayne Hage in the 1990s is still cultivating the Sagebrush Rebellion's roots.

Fred Kelly Grant has been slowed by age and heart surgery, but he's in demand from counties — and tea partyers who attend his $150-per-person seminars — as conservative elements in the West's continue to clash with the federal government.

California's Siskiyou County is paying Grant $10,000 to help block removal of four Klamath River dams. Montana and Idaho counties have enlisted him to trim hated wolf populations and thwart U.S. Forest Service road closures.

What Grant preaches is "coordination," the theory that federal agencies by law must deal with local governments when revising their public land travel plans or protecting endangered species. Grant insists he's not reviving the discredited "county supremacy" movement, in which a Nevada county once threatened federal employees with prosecution.

"This is not nullification," simply ignoring federal mandates, he told The Associated Press. "Coordination is working within the system to try and make the system work."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Idaho; US: Montana; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: california; fredkellygrant; helenchenoweth; idaho; klamathriver; montana; nevada; sagebrush; sagebrushrebellion; siskiyoucounty; waynehage; yourtaxdollarsatwork

1 posted on 11/27/2011 10:26:09 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Liberals believe Washington knows best. Out here in the rural West, we folks know different!


2 posted on 11/27/2011 10:28:09 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SmithL

Liberals believe Washington knows best. Out here in the rural West, we folks know different!


3 posted on 11/27/2011 10:28:15 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SmithL

Liberals believe Washington knows best. Out here in the rural West, we folks know different!


4 posted on 11/27/2011 10:28:29 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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5 posted on 11/27/2011 10:33:38 AM PST by narses (what you bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; and what you loose upon earth, shall be ..)
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To: SmithL
IMO the only thing that kept this from exploding further was 9/11.

In Klamath Falls, Oregon, for example, hundreds of farmers are fighting for their livelihoods because the federal government refuses to release irrigation water that it has been under contract to provide for nearly a century. This, because the release might affect the sucker fish, which happens to be on the list of endangered species. As a result, the government has reportedly sent armed Federal Fish and Game wardens to arrest and imprison any of the farmers who might try to get the water that they need for their livestock and crops to survive.

6 posted on 11/27/2011 1:59:01 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: SmithL
IMO the only thing that kept this from exploding further was 9/11.

In Klamath Falls, Oregon, for example, hundreds of farmers are fighting for their livelihoods because the federal government refuses to release irrigation water that it has been under contract to provide for nearly a century. This, because the release might affect the sucker fish, which happens to be on the list of endangered species. As a result, the government has reportedly sent armed Federal Fish and Game wardens to arrest and imprison any of the farmers who might try to get the water that they need for their livestock and crops to survive.

7 posted on 11/27/2011 1:59:07 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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