"When the U.S. Forest Service was created in 1905, one of its first concerns was to find a way to settle disputes among ranchers whose water rights resulted in conflicts over grazing areas. The Forest Service stepped into these territorial conflicts and proposed a way to resolve the disputes.
The rancher parties to the dispute voluntarily agreed to allow the Forest Service to measure the available water to which each participant had legal rights and designate the appropriate forage land required to make beneficial use of the available water. The designated area was called an “allotment.”
The ranchers paid the Forest Service a fee for their adjudication service, a portion of which went into a fund from which the ranchers could make improvements to the range and water access. The Forest Service issued a permit, which designated the forage area and the number of cow/calf units, or AUMs, that could graze the allotment.
Laney’s ancestors participated in this type of Forest Service adjudication process in 1907, three years before New Mexico became a state. The system worked well until 1934, when Congress enacted the Taylor Grazing Act. This law changed the status of the grazing permit from a voluntary process agreed to by the ranchers, into a “license” required by the federal government.
Few ranchers realized this law eventually would strip them of their rights and the land they had worked for generations."
Yes there are a few people who are ignorant of the fact that first of all the so called rules and regulations for public land do not originate in our duly elected Congress. All these rules and regs are put into place by mid level bureacrats. They rule at will.
Everytime I see some boob on these threads talking about how Mr. Bundy is a deadbeat trying to cheat the govt out of the range fees I wonder if it ever gets to their brain that he’s the guy putting steak on their table.
The Progressive agenda is to get rid of all the small ranchers as well as the organic farmers and dairy farmers. They will continue to write ridiculous rules and regs to hound these people out of business.
IMO the only way to stop it is to shut down 5-6 govt agencies altogether. That way the progressive civil servants are laid off and gone. Otherwise president’s come and go but the progressives that have inundated the bureacracy keep spinning their web.
This scenario that played out today is just one of many that will have to happen. It is likely to be one of the more civil that we will see.