I’m not suprised. The Feds always have to back down in stages. You have to keep pushing all the way. I think there are about 100 cowboys on horseback and a carvan of vehicles threatening to go get the cattle back.
BLM is claiming over $1 million in past fees.
After 20 years with no serious effort to collect, hasn’t the BLM abandoned its rights? Were the fees agreed upon or merely imposed?
After 20 years is there a count on how many tortoises met a bovine death? Any evidence?
And what about the BLM round up of tortoises elsewhere to a central collection point where they had to put nearly 1,000 todeath because of disease...and then later abandoned the whole project.
Inquiring minds want to know.