STORM2K

Ran across this article this morning, I'll post a link here in a second, just shows to go ya, the WILD WEST is STILL ALIVE and KICKIN'! I can't believe these ppl, we......(I say we, I use to raise a few feeder steers for my own use but thanks to FLATLANDERS, we had to sell before they went to slaughter ) who raise cattle are ALWAYS fighting ppl who trespass, leave gates open, chase cattle with their BALSTED ATV'S

Dennis

O'TAY, here it is! Snowflake is a *lil town* 18 miles to my north, the oldest Mormon settlement is Northern Az, it's HUGE cattle country!

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... ars29.html

Dennis

Hell's belles, Dennis; I done thought the "rancher vs. sodbuster" debate belonged in the late 19th Century..yet here 'tis, alive and kickin'.

I see two possibilities, legally...(a) repeal the law as it stands, or (b) institute an "anti-flatlander" statute which restricts acreage to people who can priove at least two generations in AZ before settlin' in and bein' 'lowed to fence their homesteads. Else, I guess I'll have to come on down thar and dispense old-timey justice...

"From a town, name of Fargo, North Dakota
Rode a man with a six-gun in his hand
And his daring fight 'gainst crime
Made him a legend in his mind
East and west of the Rio Grande..." :o

to the ruling about State Land Leases, an environmental group just recently outbid ranchers for a lease on some land near Elgin-their plan is to restore a stand of Willows and Cottonwood trees that existed before the cattle came.

Steve

Why not give the wackos a permanent lease on Organ Pipe, with the provision that THEY are responsible for securing the border there from illegal imigrants?

That oughta shut 'em up...2,000 + per month, according to US Border Patrol get through in that area.

I thought that was crazy... what drives a man to kill his neighbor's cattle? I don't get that.

Simple...when a neighboring rancher decides to "allow" his cattle to feed on another man's property (read: retired person's carefully manicured lawn and/or garden).

It would tick me off, too...except I wouldn't shoot the cattle, but the rancher. Hell, cattle don't know from nothing...the rancher DOES.

Hay Dennis, don't be dissin' all of us 'flatlanders'...
some of whom are down here to work but much prefer the foothills/mountains.
We don't hold up traffic on mountain roads like 'REAL flatlanders...'
know what I mean?

Hay Bill, strap on yur spurs buckaroo, and get out here