A "family business" conducted on public land largely at public expense, without even the payback of nominal rent to the public owners of the land.

You're a regular free-marketeer ain'tcha?:rolleyes:

Found this:

Better solar than oil, I guess.

Makes sense with the current crowd

Well I'm no fan of the armed military government police so if it turns hot oh well. The rancher is wrong, but I still dislike the Iraq style ops the BLM are running.

BLM= a buncha asshats.
Doesn't make this fellow right.

Let's assume that you have been squatting in my home rental. It costs me more to remove you so I leave you there like the banks did when they didn't want to have onto more property and have to maintain it. Suddenly, something comes along and they want to buy my house to build a strip mall and I am getting top dollar for it and I want to sell so I evict you. What of it?

Oil and cattle go together quite easily. Look at King Ranch for an excellent example in Texas. There are lots of others.

THIS

And THIS

In other news, Fox News seems to be taking the rancher's side.

Imagine that....

I think they are aware of their audience demographic.

Appears to be over for the time being. BLM announces it's done.

Ok.

Now, let's hear *YOUR* solution.

Round Up, Sale, Distribute the Proceeds

Sheriff Gillespie has been negotiating with Bundy behind the scenes for months reached a tentative agreement Friday night, though Bundy insisted the sheriff come to his ranch to finalize the arrangement face-to-face.