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Nevada Cattlemen’s Association gives statement on rancher Bundy
Las Vegas Review Journal ^ | April 16, 2014 | By KEITH ROGERS

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: blm; bundy; bundyranch; cattlemen; nevada; ranching; sympathetic
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To: B4Ranch

Good post!


41 posted on 04/16/2014 7:43:37 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Jim Robinson
gave the BLM the rationale they needed to order a 500% decrease in his cattle numbers.

No quantity of anything in the universe can be decreased by more than 100%. Either the BLM is mathematically incompetant or the journalist is.

42 posted on 04/16/2014 8:19:54 PM PDT by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: MileHi

Which is why I don’t elk hunt. Deer hunting is going the same way


43 posted on 04/16/2014 8:30:42 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Cattle cannot graze on those lands for fear of harming the tortoise. But.....If you pay the fines we are levying on you, you can graze your cattle there.

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).

44 posted on 04/16/2014 8:38:40 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
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."

45 posted on 04/16/2014 8:42:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Aria

Obama is running the whole country the way Kwame Kilpatrick ran Detroit...pay to play.


46 posted on 04/16/2014 8:46:04 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

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.


47 posted on 04/16/2014 9:36:59 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Jim Robinson

We can’t “eat local buy local” with the Feds running farms and ranchers out of business.


48 posted on 04/17/2014 12:16:18 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: redgolum
On some of the very large ranches in Los Animas county in southern CO, as the saying goes, there is more money in elk than there is in cattle.

Of course, the local DOW guy gets a personal invite to hunt every year so he and the ranchers are on pretty good terms....

49 posted on 04/17/2014 8:39:12 AM PDT by MileHi
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To: Jim Robinson

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.


50 posted on 04/17/2014 8:42:12 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Jim Robinson

“...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.


51 posted on 04/17/2014 8:45:44 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Cattle cannot graze on those lands for fear of harming the tortoise.

But.....If you pay the fines we are levying on you, you can graze your cattle there.

Got it.


Shhh.. financial elites have ordered their news media to keep this quiet; it's been an enormous effort to keep the secret.

You let a little logic slip out into the sheeple's mind, and there's no tellin' how far it'll go.

You know how many judges have to be compromised to preserve these corrupt land deals if you come up with simple facts like that ???

(/sarc)...
52 posted on 04/17/2014 10:46:19 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: Jim Robinson

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.


53 posted on 04/17/2014 11:03:17 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: MamaTexan

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.


54 posted on 04/17/2014 11:06:14 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles
It is a fatal squeeze play on all ranchers & farmers.

EXACTLY!

and it absolutely sickens me.

55 posted on 04/17/2014 11:16:06 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
During my years in the Arizona desert I learned that the grazing rights for cattle on these arid lands required 40 acres for each head. I assume the ratio is similar if not the same in Nevada. There is no threat whatsoever to desert tortoises from cattle. It is a ridiculous pretense.
56 posted on 04/17/2014 12:05:55 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: dontreadthis

Yeah, my thinking too. OK well since he has so much support I guess we can throw ours in with reservations...


57 posted on 04/17/2014 1:16:38 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: saywhatagain
Now if he was of Indian ancestry, hmmmmmm.

One of the more recent Nevada cattle confiscations was from a few women in a tribe. Shoshone I believe.

58 posted on 04/17/2014 1:19:41 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Jim Robinson

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.


59 posted on 04/17/2014 3:10:17 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Politicians and diapers need to be changed for the same reason)
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To: Jim Robinson

“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”


60 posted on 04/17/2014 6:49:47 PM PDT by Captain7seas
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