[xzins]

I would be fun to watch Bundy do that just so I could watch the bureaucrats choke on it. :>)

[Carry_Okie]

If it were my land, I would have hired a lawyer to set up a "shell corporation" for managing tortoises and sued the Feds for a taking of my tortoise habitat-enhancing cows. I would hire a third party to validate my tortoise enhancing processes. I would have demanded a chunk of the BLM or FWS budget for providing the service.

Under no circumstances would I let any mediot reporter get away with not understanding how my cows help the tortoises. I'd show them the forbs my cows promote that tortoises need to eat. I'd show them the watering facilities the tortoises use. I'd show them the barriers of brush with tortoise burrows that protect them from ravens. It would be on the tip of my tongue with every breath.

This idea that there is a trade-off between the public's interest in tortoises and my desire to run a cattle ranch is delusional nature worship. Bundy is blowing a huge opportunity trying to explain the split Federal estate Wayne Hage established in law. He can do that after he blows the premise of the supposed "public interest."