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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInspired by success of scofflaw thug Cliven Bundy, Nevada ranchers defy drought closure orders
Battle Mountain, Nevada Following in Cliven Bundys lead, ranchers in Battle Mountain, Nevada have defied drought closure orders and yesterday turned livestock onto the North Buffalo allotment managed by the Battle Mountain District of the Bureau of Land Management. Despite ongoing good faith negotiations by the agency and conservation organizations to authorize limited turnout in a different allotment this year, the Filippini family has apparently decided their livestock operations are above the law.
said Ken Cole, Idaho Director for Western Watersheds Project. The BLM is enabling this kind of behavior by coddling Nevada ranchers who are surely emboldened by the lack of law enforcement within the agency and the lack of a commitment on behalf of our government to protect the public trust the lands, waters, and wildlife that are already suffering from the drought and will now be further abused by these private cows.
The Battle Mountain ranchers have even set up a Facebook page, Stand with Battle Mountain to generate support for their open defiance of the BLMs authority to close these allotments for resource protection where they have posted pictures of the release of cattle onto the allotment. There has been ongoing opposition to the BLM staff, including a protest across the street from BLM offices. Instead of offering support for the local employees following rulings by an Administrative Law Judge that upheld the drought closure decisions on the North Buffalo allotment and the adjacent Argenta allotment, the only action from the national office has been to send a temporary State Director to Nevada to try to cut a deal with the scofflaw ranchers.
Its sick, really. Were ceding control of important public lands to private interests, an allotment at a time, said Cole. The ranchers generate public sympathy for their custom and culture, all the while despoiling the land, wildlife, and water and disregarding the laws that govern the heavily-subsidized grazing permits they feel so entitled to.
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2015/06/05/cliven-bundy-types-ignore-drought-and-law-in-northern-nevada/
said Ken Cole, Idaho Director for Western Watersheds Project. The BLM is enabling this kind of behavior by coddling Nevada ranchers who are surely emboldened by the lack of law enforcement within the agency and the lack of a commitment on behalf of our government to protect the public trust the lands, waters, and wildlife that are already suffering from the drought and will now be further abused by these private cows.
The Battle Mountain ranchers have even set up a Facebook page, Stand with Battle Mountain to generate support for their open defiance of the BLMs authority to close these allotments for resource protection where they have posted pictures of the release of cattle onto the allotment. There has been ongoing opposition to the BLM staff, including a protest across the street from BLM offices. Instead of offering support for the local employees following rulings by an Administrative Law Judge that upheld the drought closure decisions on the North Buffalo allotment and the adjacent Argenta allotment, the only action from the national office has been to send a temporary State Director to Nevada to try to cut a deal with the scofflaw ranchers.
Its sick, really. Were ceding control of important public lands to private interests, an allotment at a time, said Cole. The ranchers generate public sympathy for their custom and culture, all the while despoiling the land, wildlife, and water and disregarding the laws that govern the heavily-subsidized grazing permits they feel so entitled to.
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2015/06/05/cliven-bundy-types-ignore-drought-and-law-in-northern-nevada/
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Inspired by success of scofflaw thug Cliven Bundy, Nevada ranchers defy drought closure orders (Original Post)
phantom power
Jun 2015
OP
Where are the leaders of the White Conservative community? Oh right, they're thugs too.
phantom power
Jun 2015
#4
edhopper
(33,667 posts)1. Nonaction
has consequences.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)4. Where are the leaders of the White Conservative community? Oh right, they're thugs too.
Never mind.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. The BLM should open up Open Hunting on cows in the area
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)3. -sigh- I might actually agree...
I don't think they should, but I am quite conflicted.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)5. Drone training.
Paladin
(28,290 posts)6. We'll be paying for the Bundy incident, for a long, long time. (nt)
larkrake
(1,674 posts)7. shoot the cattle
frylock
(34,825 posts)8. Great job, Holder..
bravo.