And that is what is happening all over the West. The Feds are driving people off the land they have worked and loved for generations. This may not be a tidy way of doing things, but someone has got to stand up. And I am sorry, but many of you in the East do not understand the gravity of this. The industries they have killed, the lands they have ruined. Every single day Washington comes up with a new rule and regulation and cuts of land use for real people. It is suffocating the West.
And an irony here is that this huge nature preserve (first declared by that jack*** Teddy Roosevelt) close to this rancher they are imprisoning as a “terrorist”, this federal land they keep expanding by wheedling and coercing private citizens to sell ... the studies show the ducks and geese and other wildlife prefer to use the land that is still owned privately.
(Read the article posted here several times already, federal butt-kissing sycophants—it’s all there.)
I grew up in Western Oregon and agree with you a 1000%. My county was a timber county and Washington killed it.
Its been going on all of my lifetime and yours, too.
The federal government’s encroachment on the lands of the West.
There are people out in your part of this country that have spent a lifetime watching it get worse and worse being manipulated and deceived by government officials, elected and unelected, Republican and Democrat.
Yes, and esp ranching. Rewilding is all the rage.
That may be true but it's the Fed's land. They (we) own it.