I spent 30 years dealing with those types of problems, but it is not just cattle and sheep overgrazing, throw in horses, ATVs, timber cutting and things like that-then go the other way- to many deer, antelope, trees or what ever- over running the carrying capacity of the land-to many things for only so much land-and you can easily see why there are problems out there!! In this case it is more political than anything else, local vrs state vrs feds-a problem that has existed since the start of our republic-and the way things are going it will not end anytime soon! This is just like those two sisters in Nevada, or our local car magnet/rancher here (many other examples)-they both broke the grazing regs intentionally and refused to pay to graze on public land--and yep they lost. Never ending, seems like you start to get things under control (multi-use-LUP's -that's why there is a special thread here on public lands) and some new pol comes in does something that throws everything back to step one! I don't miss those days at all!
Not to many years ago our political masters in order to appease certain political groups, told us during one of the regular outbreaks of the "Sagebrush Rebellion" in Nevada to not resist when state LE tried to arrest us while we were working on Public Land-even created "a get-out of jail free" card for us to carry in case someone tried to really arrest us-only 24 hours in jail. This wonderful idea lasted until the physical memo reached the first BLM/FS or other fed cop-no way that's gonna happen buster! All you can do is attend those government planning meetings, say your peice and hope for the best!
Smoke
Edited by Smokecreek1, 05 April 2014 - 08:08 PM.