A friend of mine told me that Texas has no land owned by the federal government. Don’t know if that is true but this was interesting.
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/socioeconomic/states/texas.html
Looks like their are no federal grazing or timber interests in Texas.
Hmmm....
if so, then the feds don’t have any “hooks” from that quarter, on the ranchers in Texas.