Big Muddy rancher
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Oldtimer said:ranch hand said:You have to remember- this is "public" land- that means owned by everyone and those hunters and recreationists have a right to use it too..They're taxes help pay for the improvements and services BLM/Forest Service makes on the public land...And that includes the law enforcement that patrols this public land looking for those type of the public that are bad neighbor/land sharers...
Ot....I have never seen a BLM person on the second on this place. They have done no improvements to it in any way. I drove by the BLM ranch in SE Montana SE of Miles City going to a bull sale in Wyoming the other day. Last year when I drove by it they were burning fields (the area ranchers say they won't allow grazing) They were unloading fencing material, drove by this year and no fence done. I asked someone about it and they said they loaded it up and left.
Your're in the wrong district then...I've seen them building roads and stock dams, burning out areas of sage- and trying to rip up/burn out areas that won't absorb moisture... You can go all over and see their little chicken wire fenced off areas studying pasture/moisture conditions... I can show you numerous areas where they built dikes in drainages to hold the water and try to reclaim overgrazed areas to grass.... I used to see them most during dry years when they would station fire units in the area to battle fires in the breaks... Normally their fire units are dispatched out of Lewistown for up here- but some summers they'd leave units/crews up here...
I see our local BLM Ranger quite often... Besides helping take out our hospital EMT shooter/murderer a couple of years back- she responded to and helped me get our cattle out of the water and moved to high ground when a flash flood hit a couple of years back....
Burning Sage? :shock: :shock:
You mean destroying that habitat of the endangered species the Sage Grouse? :?