koshergrl
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- Aug 4, 2011
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Although the left pushes the false narrative that ranchers who make use of public lands are "welfare ranchers", by law they actually share ownership of the lands they use.
The BLM and the forest service DEPEND upon ranchers' ignorance of the law (which is convoluted thanks to the eternal attempts of the bureaucrats to muddy the water and further confuse land owners) to facilitate their illegal theft of property.
“That’s what they’ve been trying to do throughout the west for the last 40 years because there is a general lack of knowledge on the part of the western ranchers,” McIntosh said. “They try to confuse ranchers into thinking that they are merely permittees on public lands.”
"Even the charges the BLM brought against Steven and Dwight Hammond for burning about 140 acres of their BLM grazing allotment should never have been, Montana RAO director Maxine Korman said.
"18 U.S. Code 1855, says, “Whoever, willfully and without authority, sets on fire any timber, underbrush, or grass or other inflammable material upon the public domain or upon any lands owned or leased by or under the partial, concurrent, or exclusive jurisdiction of the United States . . . shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” The exception states, “this section shall not apply in the case of a fire set by an allottee in the reasonable exercise of his proprietary rights in the allotment.”
New group says grazers partial owners in federal lands in Colorado | TheFencePost.com
The BLM and the forest service DEPEND upon ranchers' ignorance of the law (which is convoluted thanks to the eternal attempts of the bureaucrats to muddy the water and further confuse land owners) to facilitate their illegal theft of property.
“That’s what they’ve been trying to do throughout the west for the last 40 years because there is a general lack of knowledge on the part of the western ranchers,” McIntosh said. “They try to confuse ranchers into thinking that they are merely permittees on public lands.”
"Even the charges the BLM brought against Steven and Dwight Hammond for burning about 140 acres of their BLM grazing allotment should never have been, Montana RAO director Maxine Korman said.
"18 U.S. Code 1855, says, “Whoever, willfully and without authority, sets on fire any timber, underbrush, or grass or other inflammable material upon the public domain or upon any lands owned or leased by or under the partial, concurrent, or exclusive jurisdiction of the United States . . . shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” The exception states, “this section shall not apply in the case of a fire set by an allottee in the reasonable exercise of his proprietary rights in the allotment.”
New group says grazers partial owners in federal lands in Colorado | TheFencePost.com
