Posted on 10/10/2014 10:50:54 AM PDT by george76
A group of horseback riders drew stares, honks and a few handshakes and high-fives along Redwood Road Thursday, hooves clattering on pavement in a protest ride of federal land management policies.
The Utah trek of the Grass March Cowboy Express hit Salt Lake City and continued east up Parleys Canyon, with Tooele County Commission Chairman Bruce Clegg and Utah Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, riding in tandem.
With them they carried a mail pouch sporting a letter demanding the resignation of a BLM field office manager who ordered grazing reductions in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and petitions from rural Utah counties citing a long list of grievances on federal wild horse management, endangered species protections and land use policies.
"It is not working," said Ivory, the sponsor of Utah's 2012 Transfer of Public Lands Act, which demands the federal government cede title to certain lands within Utah's borders.
"We have a federal government that is so over-extended and over-indebted that it is restricting the access and diminishing the health and productivity of our federal lands, and something has got to change. What we are saying is that we be given the same treatment as states east of Colorado."
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organizer and rider Grant Gerber said the group hopes to get BLM's Battle Mountain District Manager Doug Furtado ousted from his job for "unjustly" ordering the eviction of cattle from the range.
"In my 35 years of dealing with the BLM, I have never seen a bureaucrat behave that aggressively," said Gerber, a rancher, attorney and Elko County commissioner. "This is regulation without representation, which amounts to tyranny."
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Be hell bent for leather!! I need a horse!
The only two comments at the site are just pure, pure, lack of brilliance...
The low information fools are in for a huge price & availability shock when more ranchers, commercial fishermen, and farmers get further crushed by UN Agenda 21 ... as they think food only comes from a can or a box.
Well if the Republicans take the Senate then they can pass legislation in both houses of Congress to sell the land to Utah at a fair price.
Amen to that.
Curious if you know if this BLM manager Doug Furtado is a product of the infiltration of enviro-nazis into the higher BLM ranks.
Well said, Mr. Gerber!
Thanks for the ping!
Lander County Commission voted unanimously Thursday to back ranchers locked in a battle with Bureau of Land Management Battle Mountain District Manager Doug Furtado over his decision to close the Argenta Allotment, where several Lander County ranching families graze their cattle.
Furtado’s decision leaves those families scrambling for alternative pasture for their cattle and facing financial ruin.
Within hours of the vote by the Lander commission, the Elko County Commission joined the cause with a vote of support for their neighboring commissioners. Both sets of commissioners also voted to put Saturday’s Grass Tour of the allotment south of Battle Mountain on their respective agendas so they can legally attend the event
What is a fair price for land illegally held by a federal government that has no Constitutional authority to own land other than Washington DC?
Whatever amount they can get the taxpayers of Utah to fork over for it. If I were the BLM I'd start high and let them negotiate it down.
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