As long as Texas and Oklahoma can reach an equitable agreement over water rights by themselves, we sure don’t need some outside party barging in and dictating terms and confiscating ranchers lands. There is little use fighting over a 1-mile strip of land. You can’t usually control where a river is going to flow. Nowadays, a property boundary could be fixed to absolute coordinates by a GPS survey, regardless where the river flowed. A rancher in that area might Texan one year and a Sooner the next, depending on the river. So what, as long as he keeps his land? Are the taxes that different?
The Texas ranchers need to remain in Texas. The regulations are different and that would just be ridiculous to ask ranchers to cope with. Honestly, the river is a pretty good marker, which is why they use it. The problem is that the BLM wants to ignore where the river is today and push the border back south of the river.
I can’t see Oklahoma and Oklahomans trying for a land grab. I think some of the Texas ranchers need to take a short drive across the border and get to know their neighbors on the other side of the river.
The reason they won’t use GPS is water. Oklahoma got the river and they won’t (and shouldn’t) give up the water. If they did, it would all head to DFW and the Oklahoma farmers and ranchers that live on the river would get nothing fast. That’s the main reason Oklahoma has been so careful about the border.
As long as Texas and Oklahoma can reach an equitable agreement over water rights by themselves,
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http://www.owrb.ok.gov/rrccommission/rrccommission.html
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http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/WA/htm/WA.46.htm