Nine days before, Hawn had filed a lawsuit against his neighbor, Monte Downare, charging that Downare allowed the bison to trample his property and destroy his fences.
Not sure I'd want bison on my property either. Bison are the second most dangerous North American animal.
apparently letting your dangerous animals loose on your neighbor's property is OK - just protecting your property gets you in trouble
Where open-range laws are in effect, ranchers don’t have to fence in their livestock. If the neighbors want to keep cows off their land, they have to fence the beasts out.
The principle dates back to the 1800s.
Thirteen Western states still have some kind of open-range law.
In an arrest warrant, investigators say the bulk of the bison — 14 of them — were killed on land owned by Catherine Pimm.
Eight were killed on Bureau of Land Management property,
four on U.S. Forest Service property,
three on property of Robert Lemm
three on Hawn’s ranch.
***...and destroy his fences. ***
Oh, really? Most places have fence laws stating that the fence is to be bought and put up on the property line by BOTH owners. If one person puts up a fence he can go to court to force the other property owner to pay for half.
Many people just put up a fence one foot inside their own property and the law says the other property owner can not use that fence but must put up his own fence. Spite fences!
Hmmm! I wonder why MOST of those killed were on other peoples and US gov land then?
Since when do these outsiders get off violating the Open Range that’s been around for over a century just for their private lil’ petting zoos?
This criminal should be put under a dozen jails.
In open range territory.
Its unlikely that the bison did the damage; the idiot probably did it himself.