Posted on 04/16/2014 5:42:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
While distancing itself from the legal issues that prompted the Bureau of Land Management to round up Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy’s range cattle then release hundreds of them as the threat of violence loomed, the conservative Nevada Cattlemen’s Association issued a statement Wednesday that sympathizes with Bundy.
“The situation in Nevada stands as an example (of) the federal agencies’ steady trend toward elevating environmental and wildlife issues over livestock grazing,” reads the statement from Ron Torell, the cattlemen’s group president.
The statement adds that ranchers like Bundy, who graze livestock on multiple-use public lands, which include habitat for the threatened desert tortoise and other federally protected species, “have found themselves with their backs against the wall as, increasingly, federal regulations have infringed on their public land grazing rights and the multiple-use management principle.”
“This is not only devastating to individual ranching families; it is also causing rural communities in the West to (wither) on the vine. In the West, one in every two acres is owned by the federal government,” the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association statement notes. “Therefore, the integrity of the laws protecting productive multiple use is paramount to the communities that exist there.”
The group contends that the Endangered Species Act and other such laws “are being implemented in a way that are damaging to our rights and to our Western families and communities. In Bundy’s case the designation of his grazing area as a critical habitat for the endangered desert tortoise gave the BLM the rationale they needed to order a 500% decrease in his cattle numbers. There never was any scientific proof that cattle had historically harmed the desert tortoise.”
The BLM halted its roundup Saturday as gun-toting militia and protesters in support of Bundy converged on a corral near Mesquite where government cowboys were preparing...
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Good post!
No quantity of anything in the universe can be decreased by more than 100%. Either the BLM is mathematically incompetant or the journalist is.
Which is why I don’t elk hunt. Deer hunting is going the same way
A license is always just a piece of paper that allows you to do something illegal (once you've paid your "protection money" to the government).
"We're both part of the same hypocrisy."
Obama is running the whole country the way Kwame Kilpatrick ran Detroit...pay to play.
That was back when the Democrats were busy ‘saving the family farm’. We heard that line a lot up this way, and if they’d kept saving farms at the rate they were, there wouldn’t be one left. As it happened, many incorporated the family farm to avoid death taxes.
We can’t “eat local buy local” with the Feds running farms and ranchers out of business.
Of course, the local DOW guy gets a personal invite to hunt every year so he and the ranchers are on pretty good terms....
Does the “federally-protected” desert tortoise feed as many human beings as Bundy’s cattle do?
Nope.
So which one is more important. That’s an easy one.
“...The BLM halted its roundup Saturday as gun-toting militia and protesters in support of Bundy converged on a corral... “
How about “...The “heavily armed, assault rifle and machine gun-equipped BLM, complete with armed helicopter air support, halted it’s illegal theft of private property...”
There... fixed it.
Figured we owed them the correction for the “gun-toting militia” remark.
The Feds control 8r4% of the land mass of Nevada.
That amounts to more than 4 acres for the Feds & one acre for the citizens.
But.....If you pay the fines we are levying on you, you can graze your cattle there.
You forgot-
OR
reduce the amount of cattle in compliance with the Endangered Species Act and have your herd number drop so low, you violate the range rights stipulation in your property’s Deed and lose access to the water altogether.”””””\\You re correct.
It is a fatal squeeze play on all ranchers & farmers.
EXACTLY!
and it absolutely sickens me.
Yeah, my thinking too. OK well since he has so much support I guess we can throw ours in with reservations...
One of the more recent Nevada cattle confiscations was from a few women in a tribe. Shoshone I believe.
I’ve heard that the area is awash in rare earth metals, and dingy harry is trying to put the area off limits so his chinese paymasters can get their grubby hands on the mineral rights.
“In Bundy’s case the designation of his grazing area as a critical habitat for the endangered desert tortoise gave the BLM the rationale they needed to order a 500% decrease in his cattle numbers. There never was any scientific proof that cattle had historically harmed the desert tortoise.”
They do not need any scientific proof at all. They are invoking Item 15 of The Rio Declaration of Agenda 21:
Principle 15. Precautionary principle
“In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation”
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