Rancher +Militia vs BLM,trouble on the range.(OT)

The public lands livestock grazing program uses approximately 250 million acres of the arid west, with permitted users paying a pittance to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or the Forest Service for the privilege to do so. And it is truly a pittance. When Bundy stopped paying BLM in 1993, he owed just $1.86 per animal unit month for his mama cows, or $3,348 to use the land year-round. But Bundy refused to pay the fees because he didn’t want to reduce his herd to just 150 animals in order to help save the Mojave desert tortoise, a species given an emergency Endangered Species Act listing, and whose existence is specifically threatened by livestock competition for scarce desert vegetation and direct crushing and trampling of tortoise burrows. Bundy’s non-payment of fees was coupled with non-cooperation about getting his cows off the range. Since 1993, Bundy’s herd has ranged from 550 to more than 900 animals, far more than he was ever legally permitted. His cows have roamed over a much broader area than he was ever legally allowed to use. Without accounting for the legal expenses incurred by BLM and the costs of last week’s failed roundup, Bundy has since racked up a million dollar bill for overdue fees, trespass fees, and fines.

As Bundy musters up an army of supporters for this theft from the American public and the harm to the public lands, taxpayers lose at least $123 million each year that the federal grazing program continues. According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2005, the grazing fee wasn’t nearly sufficient to cover the costs of managing public lands grazing, and we – you and me, but apparently not Mr. Bundy – subsidize the program with $1.2 billion every decade, not counting the additional costs of species recovery, range infrastructure, soil loss, weed infestations, increasing wildfires, and bacterial contamination of water supplies. Despite the efforts of Western Watersheds Project and others, the fee formula has never been revised.

Well crankster, i thought well enough about the laws to put my life on the FIRING line. In front of a barrel aimed at me to kill me. That barrel failed.

Or explain to me why the BLM was destroying the water improvements on the grazing allotment

Fritz,, you failed to mention Gov Sandoval, Congressman Amodei, The entire NV legislature and Senator Heller. And today we sold about 31 guns ! Ohh lordy the horror..And we almost ran out of 9mm ammo. YOWZA!

ps, i havent seen a fox news show in perhaps a decade. But you ramble on..

bird that isnt even close to endangered.

You see i dont use google to find that out, but rather am out there along with my fellow Nevadans to actually see for themselves