[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[NormsRevenge]

Caution: Now Entering Public Lands.. Not intended for use by the Public. :-\

[GeronL]

Government should not own land they aren't using for a Constitutional purpose.

[passionfruit]

"On the way home, he was followed by law-enforcement officers, and once home, he was issued a citation for traveling on federal land without a permit." Just what permit do you need to travel on federal land? Under the provisions of ANILCA, the Forest Service MUST grant passage to and from your own land in the National Forest.

However, I don't understand why the rancher thinks he has rights to anything beyond his own 100 acres. Did he have some kind of special use permit?

I am very interested in this. My husband and I own a ranch in the mountains of Southern California, and we are surrounded on all sides by USFS lands.

[judgeandjury]

The patrol captain denied that this event occurred. "It was not in the report," he said.

Because, as we all know, every single event that happens must go into the report! If it isn't in the report, then it didn't happen!

[EternalVigilance]

Henry Lamb BUMP!

[quietolong]

bang

[EGPWS]

As of Tuesday, the area was still closed, and Forest Service contractors had confiscated 12 head of cattle and moved them to a holding corral at another location in Catron County.

OK, whens the feed and where is it going to be located. I trust it will be funded by tax dollars as to make it free!

Where's the beef!

[JOE43270]

I'm conservative but when I hear about things like this I start leaning libertarian. I do believe this though that if the new officals were really new that there are some people that work for the government that let power go to their heads and they forget that they work for us not that they are in control of us. Somehow I just don't believe those cowboys were a danger to anyone.

[sauropod]

Only in America.

[pointsal]

ping...it is time for mass early-retirement at the USFS...too many goofy lefties.

[FITZ]

The Gila Wilderness is beautiful --- it's sad that they are destroying the business of ranching this way --- there aren't that many cattle grazing up there that they shouldn't go on has they have for centuries. You can be camping up there and in the morning be woken by a group of cattle going by or sometimes a cowboy is passing through.

[archy]

According to Patrol Capt. Mike Reamer, 14 law-enforcement officers have been deployed to the Diamond Bar Ranch, armed with semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and sidearms.

Sounds to me like they're waging war on an American citizen.

U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 3:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them...

[Cultural Jihad]

Much ado about an illegal.