Posted on 04/11/2014 5:57:49 PM PDT by george76
By now you’re familiar with the standoff between the federal government, i.e. the Bureau of Land Management, and 67 year-old rancher Cliven Bundy. .. The BLM asserts their power through the expressed desire to protect the endangered desert tortoise, a tortoise so “endangered” that their population can no longer be contained by the refuge constructed for them so the government is closing it and euthanizing over a thousand tortoises. The tortoises, the excuse that BLM has given for violating claims to easements and running all but one lone rancher out of southern Nevada, is doing fine. In fact, the tortoise has lived in harmony with cattle in the Gold Butte, Clark County Nevada for over a hundred years, or as long as Cliven Bundy’s family has lived on the land as ranchers
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A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher. They want his land. The tortoise wasn’t of concern when Harry Reid worked BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore. Whittemore was convicted of illegal campaign contributions to Senator Reid. Reid’s former senior adviser is now the head of BLM. Reid is accused of using the new BLM chief as a puppet to control Nevada land (already over 84% of which is owned by the federal government) and pay back special interests.
BLM has proven that they’ve a situational concern for the desert tortoise as they’ve had no problem waiving their rules concerning wind or solar power development. ... If only Clive Bundy were a big Reid donor.
(Excerpt) Read more at danaloeschradio.com ...
Only from a drone.
Bundy needs some more innovative legal strategeries.
But, but Cliven didn’t pay his fees......
Don't go there buddy....
The Chinese solar firm was in Laughlin, NV.. Clark County as well. The deal died. This has nothing to do with that. This is a whole other animal. The BLM, US Fish and Wildlife along with the Endangered Species Act is destroying the West. I was just in Washington testifying about it yesterday as a matter of fact.
did you ever have a cow step on you?
(me neither, but it can't be good.)
When this story first began to emerge, I asked more than once as to where Bundy’s senator Harry Reid was. Now I know. He’s in the backroom counting his bribes and illegal campaign contributions.
This country is lost!!!!!!!
<< why would cattle, grazing in a zillion acre field, threaten the tortoise??? >>
The cattle do not.
However, the Chinese Communists are paying Harry’s son large money to get Chinese solar panels on the public BLM land.
thank you
By design.
Remember his national civilian army speech ?
I have no evidence to support my thinking, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the Bundys all voted for Reid.
Sounds like a pest control problem to me.
First turtles, then Feds.
Try reading post 20—and as they’d been ranching for 120 years before anyone said boo about the turtle, it seems likely that the turtle and the cow can co-exist.
It is legal for our government to murder us.
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You forgot, it is DUTY to exterminate them....
More glaring proof that the FedMob is incapable of managing lands or wildlife.
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Seems they managed to FUBAR the whore house they ended up with too.........
yes I have, and the step would NEVER kill a tortoise. I understand that the turtles do much better where they share the grazing land with cattle than they do when seperated...
Still on duty I see. There are a couple threads you missed, maybe some more coffee?
I gather you dislike facts, and prefer to make your judgments on blind emotion?
I love facts.
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