Pierre Man Convicted/ Good Job BOB!!!!

[Liberty Belle]

Congratulations on the moisture, PH. An old rancher friend of mine at Gettysburg got over 6 inches and a flooded basement and he's not complaining about either one.

I'm thinking that it's so quiet around here because ol' Happy Go Lucky can't come up with any reliable links for the fountains of "substantiated" and “unbiased” facts he talks about to combat the “second and third hand information that gets knotted and twisted to be far from the truth as it factually is” that he accuses me of using.

He must have been just making talk, huh?

All hat and no cattle maybe?

[SJ]

Happy edited his last post two times. I wonder why.

[Liberty Belle]

Do you hear anything?

I'm worried about ol' Happy - do you suppose something happened to him?


Or is it just that he can't find any documentation for his "facts"?

[P Joe]

Here you go LB, been busy. What's your thoughts??

http://ranchers.net/forum/about19407.html

[Liberty Belle]

This letter to the editor was in yesterday's Rapid City Journal. Interesting perspective on the whole Prieksat/Cooper issue, don't you think?

New approach needed in GF&P/landowner saga

Kevin Woster’s articles on the saga of Rounds versus Federal Warden Bob Prieksat were interesting.

Participants of the SD Lockout wonder if Governor Rounds has some understanding of the frustration landowners have with the Department of Game Fish and Parks and the Governor.

The previous GF&P Secretary and the Governor would not budge in their refusal to respect the property rights of landowners. The landowners want to have conservation officers “ask before they enter” private property. Landowners agreed that a conservation officer could enter private land without permission if reasonable suspicion or probable cause exists, to investigate a report of illegal hunting, fishing or trapping, to dispatch distressed wildlife, for emergency situations or threats to public safety. Landowners think this is a workable compromise; however the issue was nonnegotiable with Secretary Cooper and the Governor, much the same as the US Fish and Wildlife Service refused to fire warden Prieksat.

Apparently, the new Secretary of GF&P has neutralized the Governor’s standoff with the USFWS by agreeing to cooperate without requiring that Prieksat be fired or reassigned. Secretary Evens may have a new approach to opening the several million acres that are currently closed to big game hunting.

KAREN ENGLEHART

Bison, SD

[P Joe]

Maybe so, but I still feel that the Feds called Round's bluff. If you say you are going to do this if that don't happen, you'll better well do it. Rounds made himself look weak!