Transfer of Federal Lands to the States

highplainsdrifter wrote:
You can quit with the Shoshone question. I am not going to answer it. Your first hero was Cliven Bundy. That pretty much says it all.

Thanks for putting words in my post. Clearly, that was the word I was searching for, “Hero.” Bundy was an example of what ranchers are facing in that area and many stood, and still stand, with him. Had my example been Raymond Yowell would you have known who he was? The Shoshone have been fighting BLM since 1951 or so, and losing.

It is time for all federal land users to decide if their heart lies closer to Cliven Bundy (Chief Raymond Yowell – LS) or to Theodore Roosevelt. I am confident the majority will go with Teddy.

Federal Land Users include the ranchers who are raising your food at reasonable prices. The ranchers don’t pay those fees. The fees are added to the cost of a head of cattle and passed on to the consumer. Well, it is until the consumer can’t afford it anymore. And the fees themselves are stripped away to maintain the infrastructure of the bureaucracy, in DC, that collects them. If those fees went to Carson City, instead, I argue that more would be available for land management by the State of Nevada. I do agree with you that most will side with you and Teddy, though.

That said, I'm tired of playing ping-pong. I said that our minds would not be changed and I've made my points, so I'm going to go take my dog for a walk on my neighbors land, BLM land. ;)

LS