Posted on 05/21/2023 4:29:17 AM PDT by george76
Here is the reason the ranches need to graze cattle on the BLM land. First, grass grows there. Ranchers have the right to go to the green high country. They pay a fee per cow. They are in a cattle pool from other ranchers. They maintain fences and keep cowboys up there for the summer. But the main point: The ranchers need to grow hay for the winter feed. Ranches are in deep snow during the winter. The cattle come off the BLM and USFS land in October. The ranch bottomland has to be irrigated during the summer to grow the hay. The amount of hayland is small...it has to be flat river bottom. If the cattle were on the ranch in the summer... then two things happen: They eat the winter feed. And they trample the wet soil and destroy the grass and soil grading.
End the BLM Allotments, no ranch. Ranches would be sold for millionaire housing sites.
dat BLM rules sounds just like the other BLM rules.
“Cumulative impact” + bureaucrats + NGOs = Let Them Eat Bugs!
https://www.outdoorlife.com/federal-land-transfer-beware-politicians-bearing-maps/
Have you ever seen the map I liked above? Nearly the entire western half of the US is federally owned land.
I live in the west, I grew up in the west, I cherish the fact that most of the land is public, and I can go almost anywhere. Almost everyone that lives out here that uses the outdoors will agree that it is a good thing they are public lands. By comparison, go to Northern New York, I lived there a few years ago, almost everything is fenced off, there is no where you can go.
Let me guess. Politically connected organizations that get tax dollars will “lease” the land indefinitely.
Ranchers and logging won’t be the only impacted groups. They will also go after hunting and fishing access to those areas to lock out everyone except for the elites. I guess this will be America’s version of the King’s/Queen’s forests.
well the environmental nuts will soon enough start preventing anyone from stepping on that public land, to save an endangered weed or lizard or something, mark my words
It is critically important to do this. Lands that are not exploited by commercial interests and are left in their pristine state are a preserve for endangered species to thrive! Well, until a fire comes through the rather overgrown area and cooks everything alive leaving no ground cover to prevent erosion. But, hey, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Klaus Slob is evil but there are also other players and groups involved which is scary. Like the head of a hydra. But no matter what head you look at, Soros, Klaus, Bill Gates, etc the beast at the heart of this is the United States. And at the heart of the United States is a demonic presence with a deep hatred for the average God fearing American.
Anyone glance at the headline and get another idea like me? LOL had to read it twice.
Yes, can’t argue that. Madalyn Murray O’Hare came to mind as I read your post. Seems like, in my lifetime anyway, this was near the beginning of the anti-God movement or at least where it picked up steam. She earned her reward, IMHO.
There is definitely an effort to drive the ranchers off BLM and FS lands. I have friends who have Mexican Gray Wolves driving them out. And now that the radial, unqualified Deb Haaland is in charge they will succeed.
Yep, stack us up in urban sardine Apts.
EVs with no where to plug them in.
China owns much of our electric grid.
They will put the squeeze on.
We can only hope their economy collapses partially soon
Their housing market is collapsing.
Shh, they don’t want us to know...
They are overextended in a lot of areas.
Careful what you wish for. We heard predictions that big business would save us, and then we got woke Disney, Google, FB, Bud Light, Blackrock...
Good point!
Adam Smith would say that rational self interest in a free market economy leads to economic well being for both society and the individual. That seems to work unless those who benefit from capitalism, to achieve their goals for society, take away freedom.
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