“Would I be correct in saying that the Fed. land adjacent to the privately owned land is not for sale?”
For sale? Does it snow in hell? Just try doing a land swap. The BLM NEVER sells land.
A friend of mine tried for a decade to no avail. The BLM is God, judge, jury, and the prosecuting attorney, all rolled into one. Decades ago, the BLM actually tried to help the ranchers until it morphed into the unrecognizable doppelganger that it is now. A huge, unwieldy bemouth that radiates power and unbridled arrogance in its pursuit of
more government funds as it strives to halt all forms of
commerce in the lands it controls.
A few years ago in Nye county in NV, it came down to armed
confrontation between officials and ranchers over the
arbitrary closing of a county road that the ranchers needed
to use. And when I say a county road, we’re talking about
a dirt road between Bum F___ Egypt and Timbuctoo.
Several years ago, we had a bull Elk on one of our pastures using the seven foot wheel lines to polish his rack. Thick
fog obscured the view so we headed out to see what all the
ruckass was about. The one large SOB had done over 2 grand
worth of damage to the line. Called Dept. of Fish and Game and after two hours decided that a bull elk had done the deed. DUH? Gave us a conditional kill permit. Could only
shoot the elk on our property. If he jumped the fence, we
couldn’t shoot. And if we did get him, we had to clean and cool the body and then deliver it to local butcher so the meat could be given to the needy. I asked...Hey, I’m needy and out over 2 grand and the game warden said...tough luck.
Puck ‘em
Shoot, Shovel, Shut up. What they don’t know can’t be used against you.
Whoa, sorry for my ignorance.........