Notice of Temporary Closure on Public Lands (BLM plan published in Federal Register in March)

Federal Register ^ | 26 Mar 14 | Federal Register/Interior/BLM

[B4Ranch]

You don’t. Every year we lose some to vehicle collisions. In areas where there is multiple incidents the county will generally fence off a couple of miles so they don’t get sued for not protecting the people who are using the highways.

[xzins]

Just generically speaking, I think you’re right. Sounds like we’re allies in this.

Move my free speech zone....no need Mr Government Man.

I have a portable one all my own, carry it with me wheresoever I go.

[piroque]

Would not have all those cattle as road-kill ,if obama hadn't fired the cattle guards. Joke

For those of you who have never traveled to the west, or southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.
A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado . The Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the "cattle" guards immediately!
Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten President Obama out on the matter, Vice-President Joe Biden, intervened with a request that ... before any "cattle" guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining for Arizona border guards. 'Times are hard', said Joe Biden, 'it's only fair to the cattle guards and their families!'

[xzins]

Nice find

Thank you, but a freeper turned me on to it a few days ago. Then I couldn't find the link, and I don't remember the freeper. So I just did the trial and error thing in the computer history and eventually found it again. Had to reformat it, but it's word for word the same as what BLM posted in the Fed register.

[opentalk]

The new head of BLM is only 35 years old, came from Harry Reids office...replaced a man that had 30 years land management experience.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/13/nevada-bundy-ranch-standoff-could-leave-dirt-on-ha/

[B4Ranch]

[ponygirl]

He wasn't on a bike. He was a 20-year-old man who had gotten in a fight with his mother in Los Angeles, bought a bus ticket out to Las Vegas (where he used to live), and for some unknown reason, was seen walking, carrying a roll aboard suitcase, a duffle bag and a bed roll. Perhaps he was trying to go out in the desert to clear his head and do some thinking? Who knows. But this got the attention of the BLM, who stopped him on the road and made what sounds like a very bad day turn into something infinitely worse.

Now I don't want to be someone questioning the actions of police officers. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes, and certainly by the end of this 7 minute video, there was a definite possibility of danger to the officers. But watching this video.... one has to wonder if this needed to have escalated to killing this young man: Video of last moments of man killed by BLM in Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas.

At the end of the video, one of the guys in the car says, "That didn't need to happen. That was just redneck justice." No, it was BLM justice. And they wonder why the militia showed up at Bundy Ranch!

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

[piroque]

Quit using them around my horses, some were idiots, to many broke legs trying to jump them.

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Never tried the painted line, do they work ?

[DannyTN]

"Feral cattle? Really?

[miele man]

later read

[reformedliberal]

Yankee lady, here.

Years ago, we took a road trip that wandered through some of that open range land, either on the way or on the way back from Colorado. Lonely highway on a summer night. Needed to relieve our bladders and change drivers. Stopped. And there, in the lights of our RV was a herd of the biggest white (or maybe just white-faced) cattle with long curved horns we had ever seen, bedded down for the night. We did not exit the vehicle. We switched drivers and slowly, quietly, left the area. We may have been Yankees, but we were not suicidal. They did look mean

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Might I suggest, so that folks know this is worth watching and learning from, that after watching one and two they skip ahead to number 75, Then go back and watch the entire series, this guy is good, very, very, very good.

[GAFreedom]

But...what the hey...courts have ruled that limiting free speech is AOK. Nothing to see here...move right along

I would definitely support attempts to get free speech zones declared unConstitutional. There are surely good arguments that can be made in court for it.