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To: crazydad; Valpal1
He stopped paying the fees when the BLM stopped maintaining the land that was agreed upon.

No.

The 1984-1993 Taylor Grazing Act contract on the old Bunkerton allotment expired. It was time to enter into a new agreement, just as the Bundy family had been doing every ten years since 1934.

The new grazing agreement offered by the BLM contained a provision drastically reducing the number of livestock that Clive Bundy could graze on the allotment because the allotment was the habitat of desert tortoises, which the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services had declared and Endangered Species in 1989.

That wasn't acceptable to Cliven Bundy, so he didn't sign the agreement and ceased paying grazing fees.

124 posted on 04/11/2014 10:49:54 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: Scoutmaster; crazydad

“he didn’t sign the agreement” and there you have it. Bundy has been grazing w/o contract for the past twenty years.

He doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on and is suckering a great number of militia types and tea partiers into his windmill jousting.


145 posted on 04/11/2014 11:39:09 AM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: Scoutmaster

1993 was the year Bruce Babbit and Jim Baca tried to double the grazing fees as part of reform catering to the envirals in the Clinton coalition, sparking some serious pushback from western state Governors and cattlemen associations.

Baca was eventually sacrificed and fired as BLM director as a result of this.


199 posted on 04/11/2014 3:44:13 PM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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