They are not hunters! Assassins is exactly what they are.
Heard anything about this, George?
These two have been fighting for a while. A long time local rancher following the ranching practices set since the 1800’s versus a city slicker with no common sense ?
These types of problems are exploding because city slickers with lots of money ( think Ted Turner ) are buying up working ranches, then get mad that they are next to other working ranches.
You need a very massive and tall steel fence for buffalo and elk; Buffalo will easily walk thru three wires and some posts.
The city slicker hired some ‘hunters’ to kill the buffalo that tresspassed. Apparently, some of the buffalo were killed on federal land.
The sherriff has been very quiet so far.
Others may know some more.
This is just the latest :
Longtime Colorado rancher Monte Downare filed the lawsuit in Park County District Court Tuesday against Austin, Texas, businessman Jeff Hawn ...
Throughout the West, many states still adhere to the open-range principle, a throwback to the 1800s that says it is not a rancher’s responsibility to keep livestock fenced in — it’s everyone else’s job to keep them out.
If you don’t want someone else’s cow on your land, the law goes, build a fence. If the cow crosses your fence, you can lock it up until its owner retrieves it, and you can sue the owner for damages.
But you can not kill it.
In Colorado’s high country, transplanted city dwellers tend to have trouble understanding the idea...
In the mountain valley at 10,000 feet known as South Park ... ranchers are doing a slow boil over what they consider a terrible breach of the local code of ethics demanding that neighbors help each other out.
“You work together,” said Timm Armstrong, who runs a herd of longhorn cattle, as well as a truck stop at the edge of town.
By most accounts, Monte and Vaughn Downare and Jeff Hawn didn’t have that kind of relationship. The Downares have lived and ranched here a long time, according to locals; Hawn, who lives in Austin, Texas, bought his 362-acre Colorado ranch in 1995.
When he arrived, Hawn built a fence to keep out intruding livestock, according to a lawsuit he has filed against the Downares.
Colorado law spells out what constitutes such a fence: three strands of barbed wire, with posts set 20 feet apart, “sufficient to turn away ordinary horses and cattle.”
This spring, the Downares contend in their counterclaim, Hawn and his Denver lawyer, Stephen Csajaghy, “conspired to hire” hunters to shoot the animals.
On March 19, the carcasses were found on the Hawn ranch, other private property and nearby federal lands. The sheriff quickly rounded up 14 hunters who were camping on Hawn’s property. They said they had been given permission to shoot the bison, but who gave them that permission is part of the investigation, Gore said.
Throughout Park County, where a stray cow or wandering bison is hardly an oddity, people fumed.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004391154_bison04.html?syndication=rss