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okojo

(76 posts)
13. My Adage for power in much of the West,
Thu Jan 7, 2016, 09:47 AM
Jan 2016

It is not how much land one owns, it is how much water one has access to.. Power for these ranchers is access and rights to water.

I have been to the area where these Arizona Terrorists are camped out. It is barren, rough hardscrabble existence, where water is king. It is very isolated, desolate and it takes a huge amount of land, like one square kilometre to feed one head of cattle.

One reason I don't eat red meat, because I dealt with many of these type of ranchers in the Northwest, where they are horrible stewards of the land, and tend to shoot any wildlife that they deemed a threat to their herd. Besides cattle consume a huge amount of water. Besides they can't survive without Federal Government help without subsidized BLM land.

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