[Flycatcher]

Environmentalists "are beating ranchers over the head and trying to put us out of business," he says. "I don't understand it."

What's not to understand? Environmentalists are absolutely clueless about private property rights and that private landholders can actually be GREAT stewards of the land. Private landholders & ranchers have to be. They make their livelihood from it.

Thanks for the ping, Jaz.

[jazusamo]

Well said, Fly. And without being able to graze cattle on lease land it will run the smaller private ranchers out of business. They can’t buy enough land to make a go of it and most of the lease land is not used by the public anyway.

[Born to Conserve]

“private property rights”

Is this about private land or public land?