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A team effortThe Malheur County Sheriff’s Department stepped in and Skinner says they put so much pressure on the area that cattle rustling, for the most part, stopped.Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe says slowing down cattle theft in the area was a team effort by several different agencies, including BLM, Oregon State Police, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the local ranchers who participated in meetings with counterparts in Idaho and Nevada.Wolfe says his department increased backcountry and aircraft patrols. And, local producers who own aircraft, including the Skinners, fly a deputy over the area several times a week. Funding from BLM helps pay for the flights and the remainder of the costs come out of the Malheur County budget.About 63 search-and-rescue volunteers also perform backcountry and livestock patrols using county vehicles and ATVs, up to seven days/ week.Whenever other areas such as highway patrols are fully covered, Wolfe says full-time deputies are rerouted to the backcountry roads.The Sheriff’s Department developed cards for ranchers to fill out with license plate numbers, dates and times when they spot an unattended vehicle in grazing areas. The card includes a section that can be torn off and placed on the vehicle’s windshield stating that the vehicle had been observed by the Malheur County Sheriff’s Department.Many producers have winter grazing permits so the air and land patrols take place year around.Several motion-sensing cameras have also been set up to monitor areas where gates have been previously left open or vandalism to private property has taken place, and in areas where small bales of hay have been stolen. Hay theft, Wolfe says, hasn’t been a huge problem, but it does happen, usually 4-5 bales at a time.As added incentive, pledges from livestock producers, which as of December 2011 totaled $63,000, are being offered as a reward for information leading to convictions.Although the incidence of cattle rustling has lessened – from several hundred head to the occasional 10-15 – Wolfe says everyone remains diligent.“It’s best to use preventive methods rather than react to the crime,” he says. “An ounce of prevention is definitely worth a pound of cure.”
The Federal Government is in fact taking over State Land in the West. That is one of the underlying issues in this case. What do you think the Antiquities Act is all about. It’s the Feds taking millions of acres from the States. I have friends in the Columbia Gorge. They were a multigeneration farming/ranching operation that could not compete in the era of new federal rules once their land was moved from state to federal control. Their land is now owned by a conservation group. Grand Staircase Escalante. I Jeeped there last year. It was a huge land grab by the feds and President Clinton President Trump realized this and is greatly reducing its size. The Bundys are the pawn that states wanted to push back on an overzealous conservation movement that started under good intentions It’s a struggle for balance. It’s States vs Antiques Act.
The irony of this thread.
Quote from: PlateauNDN on January 14, 2018, 07:15:31 PMThe irony of this thread. So I'm not the only one that sees the similarities to these situations and tribes? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk
LolI see several. There are many similarities when agreements are entered into when there is not an explicit contract termination.Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk
The irony of this thread. YEP.
Quote from: Special T on January 14, 2018, 08:39:39 PMLolI see several. There are many similarities when agreements are entered into when there is not an explicit contract termination.Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using TapatalkCan you post the agreement you reference? The court order I posted contradicts any suggestion of an agreement or a right. Not even a small comparison between Bundy and Tribes.
I was at Crane Hotsprings which is where the outlaw ranchers were meeting south of Burns a week after Leroy Finicum was killed. Heard story after story of how the federal govt was making ranching impossible. Documented accounts of how they changed grazing leases mid lease. Drastically changing the AUM. Forcing ranchers to sell because they couldn’t afford to feed hay. To ranch you have to know how many animals the land can support. You have loans to buy animals and equipment. Then when you loose your lease or have the AUM drastically changed it puts you into a huge crisis. Just as many hunters feel that the game Dept is not acting in your interests so is the same feeling towards the feds by ranchers. There is a huge anti hunting and anti ranching climate in the federal govt.
Lavoy didn't have to let himself be "assassinated", had he not fled, declared on TV he wouldn't go to jail and make it known that he was packing then nearly ram a road block then jump out of the vehicle yelling to shoot him then reach for his pockets, well he'd probably be out of jail now along with Bundy and everyone else hugging his kiddies and doing what he was doing before this whole fiasco. but he choose do all those things, and got himself "assassinated" for it, if the plan was for the police to to kill him...he sure made it easy to get away with it.
