[Irish Eyes]

What will happen to the infrastructure that was destroyed? ( water lines, water tanks etc.)

[JRandomFreeper]

That is an interesting question. And one lawyers are likely going to be looking at. Turns out that Bundy is supposed to have made those improvements, since he owns the water rights on that property.

Water rights in western states are funny things. The fed may well wind up paying a lot of our tax dollars to replace or repair that infrastructure.

In theory, people that did the destroying could go to jail.

/johnny

[tumblindice]

That’s one of the reasons Bundy (per his daughter) stopped paying them.
If seen as an easement (although I believe it was actually a license) the dominant owners (fedzilla) were obligated to put some of that `grazing fee’ money back into maintaining the property, roads, firebreaks, chopping scrub, etc.
So the `easement’ was surcharged by the `owners’. (Actually, *we* are the owners; the feds are an artificial construct created by 13 states. And some of them had grave doubts at the time. Go figger.) Usually you see the servient user doing that: all Bundy was doing was what his father and his before him did—raising beeves.
But the BLM didn’t do jack, they just took the money.
Of course that’s what the feds do: they sit back and expect our checks to clear. If their primary job is securing the people from invasion, they sure as hell aren’t using it down on the border!
hey, pull my sting again, I’m winding dow....