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In reply to the discussion: WTF Is Going On At Bundy Ranch? Video of Dangerous Standoff With Authorities. Snipers too! [View all]Sunlei
(22,651 posts)It's so cheap, the rancher should have just paid.
On top of that sweet low grazing lease price, our Gov also pays to reseed the land, reopen any water/springs the cattle have trampled, redo every dirt road through the lands. Our Gov pays for fencing, cattle guards on roads. That is our Federal dollars to support what looks like 'welfare ranching'.
Now the Gov has one of their Utah contractors in rounding up the ranches cattle...that's probably the Cartoors? who have made millions off BLM round-ups. They are paid by the animal and use helicopters. We will probably have to pay them close to a million in our federal funds to round-up this ranches semi-wild cattle. I think they got close to 400 already.
That desert land is so very fragile one can still see the covered wagon damage from 100 years ago.
, The BLM 'manages' our public lands and never allows graze use year round. Adjacent ranchers to our public lands pay the 1.50? for a couple months of monitored grazing and then are supposed to move the herd off the public lands.