Posted on 04/10/2014 9:13:18 AM PDT by Nachum
Excerpts from the Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone
Proposed Mitigation Actions and Locations. The Gold Butte ACEC is preliminarily recommended as the best recipient location for regional mitigation from the Dry Lake SEZ. [page 29]
The Gold Butte ACEC was established in the Las Vegas RMP [Resource Management Plan] (BLM 1998). The Las Vegas RMP also specifies the resource constraints of the Gold Butte ACEC, which include: ... Closed to grazing. The resource values found in the Gold Butte ACEC are threatened by: ...trespass livestock grazing [page 30]
The map on page 31 shows that the Gold Butte ACEC includes the Bunkerville Allotment which is where Bundy's ranch is.
Dingy’s rhm, very recently imposed as the head of the BLM, was apparently deeply involved in that “sustainable” energy source development.
So, the Fedcoats do want Bundy’s ranch? He has said he’s the last of 50+ ranchers in the area.
That’s the main reason I could think of 200 armed Fedcoats showing up at the ranch.
Driving him into the old folks home in Las Vegas and finally getting rid of the last parcel of BLM land in the valley susceptible to grazing rights is the objective.
Exactly.
They want him off his land so that the area can become a preserve, to compensate for destruction caused elsewhere by solar and wind power projects.
Clearly the ~20 yr pissing contest has escalated in importance to the gov't in the past few years.
Are there fences at the boundaries of these named designated areas?
The BLM are authorizing themselves to go after a large part of Nevada. Maybe a million Buck$ for Utah cowboys in helicopters is not excessive, assuming homogenous enforcement.
5.56mm
I don’t know about fencing, I think it’s open range but I’m not sure.
I previously saw the Section? of private land (white) deeply imbedded in the scrub land, but haven't quite located it on aerial/satellite photography to see if there are still any "improvements" visible there.
At first I thought it might be the ranch, but have since found the GPS coordinates of the ranch and located it visually in the bottom lands of the Virgin River.
I like using http://mapper.acme.com/ for maps, it seems more flexible than mapquest or google.
It has satellite and topo
Bump
Do you have those coordinates handy? I’d like to check it out.
I like to use Flash Earth 'cause it has GPS coordinates and easily switches between D/M/S and decimal degrees. MSRmaps has aerial photography, sometimes from a while back in addition to topo maps (which tend to have significant historical data). geomac.gov has all of the topographic maps somewhat buried in there.
I have the place (ranch) at 36 42 59.6, 114 14 18.5 or 36.716574, -114.238483.
Flash Earth? MSRMaps? And coordinates!
Triple thanks!
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