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Latté sippers 'have no clue how ranching economy works' (fly over country hicks)
wnd.com ^ | 1/4/2016 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 01/04/2016 10:24:58 PM PST by rktman

The standoff between supporters of two Oregon ranchers convicted of setting fires on federal land they leased to graze cattle and government officials amounts to a clash of cultures, according to a legal observer.

"Those sipping lattes, they have no clue how the ranching economy, the Western economy works. They believe ranching destroys the environment, that ranching is a vestige of a bygone era," said attorney James S. Burling, the litigation director of the Pacific Legal Foundation.

Two years after the standoff at Cliven Bundy's ranch in Nevada, two of Bundy's sons helped initiate the occupation of the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: clueless; dontcare
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There is so much more to this whole thing that most of the "conservative" pundits have wrong. As for the msm, they are so far off the mark............then again, it's what they do.
1 posted on 01/04/2016 10:24:58 PM PST by rktman
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how will the eat local lefty environmentalists do that if their regulations end farming and ranching....


2 posted on 01/04/2016 10:28:50 PM PST by RginTN
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To: rktman

“The standoff between supporters of two Oregon ranchers convicted of setting fires on federal land they leased to graze cattle and government officials amounts to a clash of cultures, according to a legal observer.”

“... on federal land they leased to graze cattle and government officials ...”

PRICELESS!


3 posted on 01/04/2016 10:29:08 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: rktman

Against ranching because it destroys the environment. Yet the millions of wildebeest, antelope, gazelle, cape buffalo etc. graze and destroy land in Africa, while humans getting no benefit from them is okay.


4 posted on 01/04/2016 10:35:37 PM PST by LukeL
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To: LukeL

http://www.agenda21course.com/lesson-3-wildlands-project/


5 posted on 01/04/2016 11:00:03 PM PST by MarMema
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To: LukeL

One benefit of BLM cattle grazers is that they
develop water resources for the native wild
life as well as the livestock.


6 posted on 01/04/2016 11:20:36 PM PST by Sivad (Juan Corona would vote for Democrats)
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The pasturage is superior to that left to seed as well.

When someone looks after the means of production, it tends to be more productive.

Families who have farmed or ranched land tend to know how to be the best stewards of that land, especially if they have been doing so for decades or even centuries.

They are generally far more qualified to care for it than someone with a newly minted BA in wildlife management.

7 posted on 01/05/2016 12:02:22 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Yeah, it’s a clash of culture all right: Ranchers (American culture) vs. environ-MENTAL-ists (deadly bacterial culture).


8 posted on 01/05/2016 12:11:54 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Terrorism, the thing that shall not be named by the MSM)
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To: WTFOVR

Yep. priceless indeed.


9 posted on 01/05/2016 3:38:11 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: WTFOVR

Cattle can be sold at market for profit. Not sure anybody wants to buy grass-fed government officials.


10 posted on 01/05/2016 3:41:44 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Cattle can be sold at market for profit. Not sure anybody wants to buy grass-fed government officials.

You'd have indigestion for decades.

11 posted on 01/05/2016 4:46:32 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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There are people on FR who insist we’re ALL gonna starve to death if the supermarkets lose electricity...


12 posted on 01/05/2016 10:39:11 AM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: The_Victor; NorthMountain

Well, they don’t want us going on trophy hunts for lions anymore....


13 posted on 01/05/2016 11:29:18 AM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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I have observed that while they are similar, hunting and pest control are not quite the same thing.


14 posted on 01/05/2016 11:31:53 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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We’re not? LOL!


15 posted on 01/05/2016 12:05:03 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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They believe ranching destroys the environment, that ranching is a vestige of a bygone era," said attorney James S. Burling, the litigation director of the Pacific Legal Foundation.

All right... How about all the ranchers and farmers in the country go on strike, give these folks a little dose of reality?

16 posted on 01/05/2016 3:44:32 PM PST by Lexinom
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Western Ranchers are the new Kulaks. If you want to get really scared about it, go read what the Twitter Tw@ts are saying. Talk about bacterial...that place is a sewer.


17 posted on 01/05/2016 3:48:11 PM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: WTFOVR

Yep thats a REAL Classic!


18 posted on 01/05/2016 4:06:46 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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I wish people would make an effort to get the event straight...the Hammonds set a back fire during a wild fire event. From what I understand, they set the back fire on their private land and it spread to 127-acres of BLM land. Big deal.

This fact should always be mentioned; it is the kind of information the pisses off people who have no knowledge of wild fire management. That someone would have to do prison time for this is inexcusable.


19 posted on 01/05/2016 4:16:00 PM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: Sivad
One benefit of BLM cattle grazers is that they develop water resources for the native wild life as well as the livestock.

That is exactly right...hell, half the feral horses in Nevada would die if it wasn't for local ranchers.

20 posted on 01/05/2016 4:18:04 PM PST by Cuttnhorse
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