Nevada Cattlemen’s Association gives statement on rancher Bundy

Las Vegas Review Journal ^ | April 16, 2014 | By KEITH ROGERS

[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...

[Jim Robinson]

Well, it certainly wasn’t cost effective to Bundy.

[FBD]

Exactly

[lentulusgracchus]

So what’s the bottom line on that 1866 case? Don’t tease.

[lentulusgracchus]

Noticed a lot of posts on the Las Vegas Review-Journal's site in the discussion, that read like like Administration Netroots werewolves Mau-Mau'ing the site. Their posts are short but they use politispeak and lawyerspeak and insist on the same points the Administration is polluting the Politisphere with: Farmer's a freeloader, he's a "welfare cheat", he's this and he's that, he owes the Government and won't pay.

Underneath all that is a law case that should have/would have been decided and executed long ago if the Government had an airtight case. Something smells here.

But the werewolves are in no doubt -- and want to change our minds for us. "Don't support Bundy -- he's a bad guy!"

[Para-Ord.45]

If Bundy can prove he has Water Rights then the BLM broke the law when they destroyed his deep water wells and cisterns.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145141/posts

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