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Steven Wilson
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by Steven Wilson » Wed Jun 12, 2002 4:47 pm
Arden Kysely, KLR lister, responded:
> What I find ridiculous is that in some places
you're not allowed to
> ride, but ranchers are free to set loose herds
of cattle which
cause much greater damage.
"It's worse than that. A popular "improvement"
for
rangeland in the
pinyon-juniper forests of the West is
chaining--dragging an anchor
chain between two bulldozers and uprooting
everything for hundreds of
acres of land that the government leases at
bargain-basement rates to
ranchers for their marginal cattle. But can we
ride on the roads that
connect those devastated areas? Not likely."
It gets worse yet-- ranchers in my home state of
Nevada are the prime suspects in many wild horse
killings. The beauty and majesty of the wild
horse is seen as a threat because they "injure"
the land which their cattle dine on (destroy) at
those bargain basement government lease rates.
The ranchers insist that the Bureau of Land
Management is not removing the horses at a fast
enough rate through government wild horse
adoption programs, so they deal with the problem
in their own ways. To add insult to injury, some
ranchers have become quite wealthy while enjoying
preferential cash cow land leasing arrangements
most people cannot qualify for. One
multimillionaire rancher has been a frequent
candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada.
Don't eat beef! Eat kale and collards (KLR).
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Brent B
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by Brent B » Thu Jun 13, 2002 2:19 am
The big political machine is impossible to fight. In the meantime, beef prices are very low here in the east(from a sellers standpoint), and farmers have a hard time getting enough for their beef to make it. A lot of abandoned farms(not to be confused with abandoned land, it's just not farmed anymore) around here these days. All this while the ranchers are crying about the cheap gov't land.
just a thought,
brent
( What I find ridiculous is that in some places
you're not allowed to
> ride, but ranchers are free to set loose herds
of cattle which
cause much greater damage.
"It's worse than that. A popular "improvement"
for
rangeland in the
pinyon-juniper forests of the West is
chaining--dragging an anchor
chain between two bulldozers and uprooting
everything for hundreds of
acres of land that the government leases at
bargain-basement rates to
ranchers for their marginal cattle. But can we
ride on the roads that
connect those devastated areas? Not likely."
It gets worse yet-- ranchers in my home state of
Nevada are the prime suspects in many wild horse
killings. The beauty and majesty of the wild
horse is seen as a threat because they "injure"
the land which their cattle dine on (destroy) at
those bargain basement government lease rates.
The ranchers insist that the Bureau of Land
Management is not removing the horses at a fast
enough rate through government wild horse
adoption programs, so they deal with the problem
in their own ways. To add insult to injury, some
ranchers have become quite wealthy while enjoying
preferential cash cow land leasing arrangements
most people cannot qualify for. One
multimillionaire rancher has been a frequent
candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada.)
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