[xzins]

They actually planned this well ahead of time. Including this part:

Two locations are available for members of the public to express their First Amendment rights: I–15 and Exit 112 for Riverside and State Route 170 and White Rock Road. Only one area will be available at a time; Incident Command staff will determine daily which location is most suitable, based on impound operation activities and safety considerations, and will post the location on BLM and National Park Service (NPS) websites.

[wrench]

Feral cattle? Really?

I am surprised they didn’t also list “terrorist ranchers”.

The US Gov’t is really out of control

[ladyjane]

Here’s Gayle’s husband’s cv. He’s a Ph.D. botanist. (His name is Smith. Why his cv is on Harrison’s ASU page, I don’t know.)

http://jharrison.faculty.asu.edu/val/smith.pdf

Here is his primary research interest:

“Global change – esp. elevated CO2 and altered precipitation regimes”

Guess who he voted for.

[fella]

This reminds me of the part in “The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Universe” where the notification for the destruction of the Earth was put up on another planet.

[B4Ranch]

This is #1 of 75 videos on the subject. It might be an idea to download them all considering what happened at the Bundy Ranch this past week.<

SNIPER 101 Part 1 - Introduction - Rex Reviews

Published on Sep 9, 2012

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This course goes far beyond what is covered in the U.S. Army FM23-10. So, if you can't make it to Quantico or the AMTU to learn these long range shooting skills, this video tutorial series will have you covered. We will get you set up to make amazingly accurate first round shots at 1 mile and beyond. Do you want to be able to zap that white tail buck at 1,275 yards and be confident it will be a nice clean kill? Watch this series!

All law abiding men and women in the free world who treasure their rifles MUST have these long range shooting skills for the continuation of our shooting culture and for the future preservation of our wonderful nation! Peace is beautiful, insure it by sharing these marksmanship skills with your friends and families to exponentially increase our nations already robust defense stature against. Stay clean, obey the law, and keep smiling.

[ladyjane]

Las Vegas Field Office
Gayle Marrs-Smith, Field Manager

4701 North Torrey Pines Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89130

Phone: 702-515-5000

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[P-Marlowe]

The area described contains approximately 578,724 acres in Clark County, Nevada.

For all you Rhode Island Freepers that is almost the area of your entire state.

All of this blocked off just to round up one small business rancher's cattle.

Complete with "Free Speech Zones" located Who knows where for those who think this might be overreach.

Obviously this was going to cost much more than the money that Mr. Bundy allegedly owed to the Federal Government. Probably a 10 Million dollar venture to capture a million dollars (retail) worth of one man's cattle.

[demshateGod]

Nice find. Thanks for posting it. I think the land is open now. No thanks to our fearless Republican leadership. What happened the other day is a great case study in how to regain our liberty. We just need to take it.

[precisionshootist]

Wow, we need an article V convention of the states. Now!

We may want to consider an amendment prohibiting the ownership and regulation of land or water by the federal government. The only exception would be military bases and land needed for occupied federal buildings.

[MarMema]

Within the closure area, escorted media viewing opportunities will be made available for BLM/NPS credentialed media during the impoundment operation.

These people are frightening. It is as if they live in another country.

[beethovenfan]

The BLM calls these “public lands”, but the public (citizens) are prohibited from accessing them.

[Georgia Girl 2]

They murdered some kid on a bike about 3 weeks ago because he rode down into the closed area.

[bgill]

How much did it cost the taxpayers to get this very short 6 week closure notice put together? How much did it cost the taxpayers to send all those officials out to the Bundy ranch? All that to stamp out one guy and then it didn’t work. Hey, it’s all monopoly money, right?

[Amagi]

The following is a second hand re-posting by me:

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This is the best explanation I have read on the reason why a person would not want to enter into a contract with the BLM and thus would not pay any grazing fees to them. Offer to pay to the county but not deal with the BLM. I did not write this so if you repost or copy and paste please credit the author.

Written By Kena Lytle Gloeckner

There have been a lot of people criticizing Clive Bundy because he did not pay his grazing fees for 20 years. The public is also probably wondering why so many other cowboys are supporting Mr. Bundy even though they paid their fees and Clive did not. What you people probably do not realize is that on every rancher's grazing permit it says the following: "You are authorized to make grazing use of the lands, under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management and covered by this grazing permit, upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this grazing permit and payment of grazing fees when due."

The "mandatory" terms and conditions go on to list the allotment, the number and kind of livestock to be grazed, when the permit begins and ends, the number of active or suspended AUMs (animal units per month), etc. The terms and conditions also list specific requirements such as where salt or mineral supplements can be located, maximum allowable use of forage levels (40% of annual growth), etc., and include a lot more stringent policies that must be adhered to.

Every rancher must sign this "contract" agreeing to abide by the TERMS AND CONDITIONS before he or she can make payment. In the early 90s, the BLM went on a frenzy and drastically cut almost every rancher's permit because of this desert tortoise issue, even though all of us ranchers knew that cow and desert tortoise had co-existed for a hundred+ years.

As an example, a family friend had his permit cut by 90%. For those of you who are non ranchers, that would be equated to getting your paycheck cut 90%. In 1976 there were approximately 52 ranching permittees in this area of Nevada. Presently, there are 3. Most of these people lost their livelihoods because of the actions of the BLM. Clive Bundy was one of these people who received extremely unfair and unreasonable TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Keep in mind that Mr. Bundy was required to sign this contract before he was allowed to pay. Had Clive signed on the dotted line, he would have, in essence, signed his very livelihood away. And so Mr. Bundy took a stand, not only for himself, but for all of us.

He refused to be destroyed by a tyrannical federal entity and to have his American liberties and freedoms taken away. Also keep in mind that all ranchers financially paid dearly for the forage rights those permits allow - - not rights to the land, but rights to use the forage that grows on that land. Many of these AUMS are water based, meaning that the rancher also has a vested right (state owned, not federal) to the waters that adjoin the lands and allow the livestock to drink.

These water rights were also purchased at a great price. If a rancher cannot show beneficial use of the water (he must have the appropriate number of livestock that drinks and uses that water), then he loses that water right. Usually water rights and forage rights go hand in hand. Contrary to what the BLM is telling you, they NEVER compensate a rancher for the AUMs they take away.

Most times, they tell ranchers that their AUMS are "suspended," but not removed. Unfortunately, my family has thousands of "suspended" AUMs that will probably never be returned.

And so, even though these ranchers throughout the course of a hundred years invested thousands(and perhaps millions) of dollars and sacrificed along the way to obtain these rights through purchase from others, at a whim the government can take everything away with the stroke of a pen. This is the very thing that Clive Bundy singlehandedly took a stand against. Thank you, Clive, from a rancher who considers you a hero.

Written By Kena Lytle Gloeckner

[opentalk]

The new head of BLM is only 35 years old, came from Harry Reids office...replaced a man that had 30 years land management experience.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/13/nevada-bundy-ranch-standoff-could-leave-dirt-on-ha/

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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[miele man]

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