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While I agree that he deserves what he gets, mostly because he had the Bison shot on others land and not his, the law is one of those that makes you shake your head. Kind of like the SC decision that it was OK for govts., state or local, to take someones land just because they think they can generate more tax revenue from a promised development. Just because it’s the law doesn’t make it right.

Kind of like the SC decision that it was OK for govts., state or local, to take someones land just because they think they can generate more tax revenue from a promised development. Just because it’s the law doesn’t make it right.

Open Range laws are a quite a bit different than eminent domain. Open Range laws involve land that the government already owns...not land they take from a current landowner. The government is the largest landowner in Colorado and many other western states. Most of the land the government owns has never been owned by an individual. I don't recall any high profile case involving open range laws. It is just the way things are and have been.

The only person in this story that has a problem with open range laws is the new guy. Seems to me if the laws work for everybody but the new guy, maybe it is up to the new guy to adapt.