Make tha Aztlan
Posted on 09/02/2008 2:46:24 AM PDT by rellimpank
South of Hartsel, the South Platte River meanders through some of the most fabulous ranch and fishing land in the nation.
On a late summer afternoon, the sheer beauty of the setting caused a couple of motorcyclists to stop and point their cameras at a group of handsome horses standing near the river.
Exactly five months earlier, a group of 14 men pointed not cameras but guns at a group of bison and shot them dead. Killed were 32 bison belonging to longtime South Park rancher Monte Downare.
The slaughter has caused an outrage that the beauty of Colorado's South Park can't hide. The anger flows from the mouths of South Park residents; it is genuine and deep.
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
No. South Park refers to South Park County. It is a beautiful place.
Fairplay is what the show is based on and is in South Park County.
These laws have existed for a LONG time and were bitterly fought over. Best to leave them alone.
I doubt if your elephants would do very well in South Fork ;-]
How about South Park instead. South Fork is pretty nice too and wouldn't do well with elephants either...
No, but if you decide to move to elephant country, you have the responsibility to understand what you’re getting into.
The hundred years old law said if you want a herd off your property, it’s your responsibility to keep them off your property.
I only used elephants in my example to illustrate the absurdity of a law that places primary responsibility for controlling the animals on someone other than the property owner. And since it’s the responsibility of the property owner I frankly see nothing wrong in taking whatever measures are necessary, including shooting the animals, if fences don’t work.
The guy who got others to shoot, should be in big trouble. Hunting on Federal property without the proper permission? Shooting at animals that are not on your property? Bad.
When you are leaving your property to go onto someone else’s property to shoot them, however, my guess is that Colorado law looks differently on that...
It doesn’t work that way in the West. It is free range here. Also, the owners claims sound silly as well and unbelievable.
Thanks
“Some of the best river and lake fishing in Colorado is found here, with the South Platte providing depth and breadth to Antero, Spinney and Elevenmile reservoirs. Tarryall Creek fills Tarryall Reservoir as well.
Public and private waters give the sportsman much to contemplate in the way of flies and lures.”
It is bad enough that the liberal cry-babies have pretty much completely poisoned California - but they have to move East to formerly nice and generally conservative states. First they have tried to overrun Colorado, and more recently - Montana.
I was reminded of this when I saw a clip of the horses-butt Montana Governor (a liberal DemocRAT...how on earth???).
Again - another reminder of the old saying - what happens in California eventually comes to YOUR neighborhood.
First they exported gangs to spread across the country.
And now they are exporting their surplus of marxist liberals to take over the rest of the country.
I guess Nikita Khrushchev’s plan of taking the US over from the inside is coming true - and his point of infection was Calinfornia and the DemocRAT party.
While I don't quite understand this law, it is the law. If he wanted the bison kept off his property it was HIS responsibility to fence them OUT - not for the owner to fence them in.
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/Agriculture-Main/CDAG/1176829292622
Keep in mind also that if you do fence, you probably have to pay higher taxes. For most non-rancher/farmer types, it changes your designation to the taxing authorities (we just had to deal with this last year in South Fork, CO).
Mmmmm...fajitas.
You can always see that the enemedia person is a PETA lover when they call shooters : hunters.
Hunting had nothing to do with these shootings.
It’s going to be interesting to see what comes out of this.
Hawn is a hot shot businessman that buys property in ranch country. He has this problem and contacts the attorney, Stephen Csajaghy in Denver who has to be oblivious to range law or else he informed Hawn about it and Hawn ignored him. Either way it’s cut and dried and Hawn was in violation of the law and more than likely will be found guilty.
I don’t think it will end there though. Hawn still has his place and it sounds like he has a sizeable investment in it, all his neighbors are pissed off at him big time and it’s still open range. Hawn might do well to fing a buyer for his place if he can, don’t think he’s going to enjoy being there too much.
Hawn is going to really need his new lawyer. Earlier, she scared the Eagle County DA and kept Kobe free.
Lucky for him that he can afford her fees.
Hawn likely knew about Colorado open range laws, but like many newbie liberals , he chose to ignore them. He would have gotten away with it except for the massive exposure of his actions of hiring AZTEC shooters and that the local sheriff / CBI did a good job of investigating.
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"I feel it was just appalling that this person, who is not from this county, came in and took such aggressive action. I was shocked. I thought it was mean," said Keller.
Reading this story made me wonder , just how many generations will it be until he is from that county ?
Make tha Aztlan
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