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Posted on 01/04/2016 10:24:58 PM PST by rktman
The standoff between supporters of two Oregon ranchers convicted of setting fires on federal land they leased to graze cattle and government officials amounts to a clash of cultures, according to a legal observer.
"Those sipping lattes, they have no clue how the ranching economy, the Western economy works. They believe ranching destroys the environment, that ranching is a vestige of a bygone era," said attorney James S. Burling, the litigation director of the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Two years after the standoff at Cliven Bundy's ranch in Nevada, two of Bundy's sons helped initiate the occupation of the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
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You are so right Joe,
There is this knee-jerk reaction that insists that ranchers overgraze their range permits and are ruining the land. This is ridiculous of course; ranchers in the west survive on weight gain on their calves which they market in the fall.
If cattle producers degrade their grazing permit, they are insuring their demise.
“Cattle can be sold at market for profit. Not sure anybody wants to buy grass-fed government officials.”
...yet people do!
These are the people who think their meat comes from a grocery store and the grocery store just produces it magically.
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They set a fire while a burn ban was in effect to protect fire fighters who had been sent into the area.
You can say the ban shouldn't have been in place but don't pretend they didn't violate the law and endanger the fire crew that was actually in the area.
Twitter users think food grows on supermarket shelves. They would starve to death if they had to grow or hunt for their food. Those ranchers would survive.
Where in the Constitution does it say the federal government can claim ownership of the land in the several states? How was this ever allowed?
Perhaps then they may be shipped to a rendering plant, and converted into dog food?
Except, from what I read the backfire actually put out the primary range fire.
I don't know about that but it doesn't really change anything. It's undisputed that there was a ban in place and there was a fire crew in the area that may have been endangered by the Hammond's fire.
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