Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher

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These are Pine Creek Ranch (Hage) cattle grazing unmolested by the BLM for the first time in 20 years since the federal judge ordered the grazing permits restored.

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No kidding, one mis-step and he's done for. You can bet your ass these agents are just waiting with baited breath for one slip up so they can justify murdering him and his whole family. Then they'll get rewards and accolades for taking town "domestic terrorists". Makes me sick.

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If his ranch was in Nye County our sheriff, Tony De Meo would see that due process was followed. But in Clark County it doesn't appear to be that way.

On the other hand if Governor
Sandoval had any balls he would have defused the situation instead of making stupid political statements for the press

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If his ranch was in Nye County our sheriff, Tony De Meo would see that due process was followed. But in Clark County it doesn't appear to be that way.

On the other hand if Governor
Sandoval had any balls he would have defused the situation instead of making stupid political statements for the press

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Most people, including state politicians believe the states are SUBSERVIENT to the federal government and not the other way around.

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Most people, including state politicians believe the states are SUBSERVIENT to the federal government and not the other way around.

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Sad but true.

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...the states are SUBSERVIENT to the federal government and not the other way around.

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Direct result of dual citizenship per the 14th amendment. Here is the law that this violates

Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.

Paying feudal tenures to the federal government in the form of grazing rights establishes pecking order.

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it is a money and power thing. Years ago when i was working in the kenworth truck shop on night shift a trucker came in for service. The man didn't look like a truck driver to me. He looked like a rancher. I said to him "you look like a rancher to me. What are you doing driving a truck"? He told yes, he had been a rancher in montana but the blm had filed numerous law suits against him and his family. He said the government never won a single case but the cost of litigacition broke them. They were forced to sell. He had bought a truck with his share and was hauling livestock for a living.

One of my classmates, and very close friend is a cattleman. He went to collage against his father's advice. He has had more than his share of harrasment from the blm, but says his college training has given him the tools he needs to stay one jump ahead of them.

Nevada has the best politicians money can buy so agenda 21 is happily marching forward.

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He said the government never won a single case but the cost of litigacition broke them.

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His adversary was the wicked who have unlimited resources at their disposal and they derive their satisfaction in life from fucking over others - quite possibly the nastiest combination there is.

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87 % of our state is "unclaimed property". How do you propose we claim it? Since the closure of the homestead act anyone who has claimed any of this property, with the exception of mining claims, has been forcefully evicted by these bureaucrats.

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Claim it like the gov. claimed Iraq, bunch of men with guns and the such.

Nevada Rancher: “Wake up America…They are taking everything away from us”

By Nick Sorrentino on April 9, 2014
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Well the “range war” out west continues on. The Feds have decided that a piece of land which has been ranched by the Bundy family for decades is off limits. (They decided this 20 years ago.) The Bundy’s didn’t comply. Now the proverbial dung is hitting the fan.
The Bundy’s say (along with the Governor of Nevada and one of the state’s Senators) that the Bureau of Land Management has overstepped its bounds by bringing in a small army of heavily armed agents, including snipers perched on ridges to chase the Bundy’s off the range land.
The Feds have also impounded cattle and have sought to restrict the filming of the showdown, erecting at one point a “1st Amendment zone” tucked away from the action.
Virtually the entire west is governed by the BLS which over the years has expanded its power and has sought to restrict the rights of farmers and ranchers. .
Why do these things always seem to happen around tax day?

(From KSL.com)
Logue said Dave Bundy was taking pictures and recording on his iPad when he was asked by federal employees what he was doing. Logue said that Dave Bundy told the BLM workers that he was “exercising (his) First Amendment rights.”
“He did not resist arrest, but they continued to beat him,” Logue told KSL. “They put him on the ground and were standing on his head and had a dozen officers on top of him and dogs.”
The Bundy family was asked to leave the premises after Dave Bundy’s arrest. Logue said that there were snipers and uniformed men on the scene during the cattle impoundment.

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Hundreds of Armed Feds and Snipers Surround Nevada Cattle Ranchers Property: Is This the Next Ruby Ridge?

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UPDATE: Strike teams of 15-20 agents are attempting to take the cattle and often in the process killing and burying the cattle in the desert. A group of roughly 120 peaceful protestors attempted to stop them and got in front of a convoy of agents in an attempt to call in the local sheriff as they perceived this as an illegal action.
BLM agents began violently attacking the protestors, throwing women to the ground with a number of men being tazed. Agents had assault weapons and sidearms drawn but due to the mass of peaceful protestors, ended up retreating after their initial attack. Protestors are awaiting and anticipating a more forceful response and requesting assistance from all freedom fighters/lovers in the SW U.S. and nationwide.

Clark County, Nev., April 9, 2014- Over the past two decades there has been an ongoing standoff between the U.S. federal government and a 67-year-old local Nevada cattle rancher named Clive Bundy. This past week armed federal agents were deployed in what is a clear escalation in this ongoing feud.

Clive Bundy, the last of the cattle ranchers in Clark County, refuses to comply with a court order from 2013 that orders him to remove his cattle from public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The BLM and the U.S National Park Service claim that they are simply responding to Mr. Bundy’s refusal to comply with the order by calling in federal agents and contract cowboys to confiscate what they call Mr. Bundy’s “trespass cattle.” Thus far, they have impounded roughly 277 of Clive Bundy’s estimated 900 cattle.

The Bureau of Land Management claims on their website that the, “Cattle have been in trespass on public lands in southern Nevada for more than two decades. This is unfair to the thousands of other ranchers who graze livestock in compliance with federal laws and regulations throughout the West. The Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service have made repeated attempts to resolve this matter administratively and judicially. An impoundment of cattle illegally grazing on public lands is now being conducted as a last resort.”
As reported by The Blaze, the ranchers wife Carol Cox says there now appears to be snipers stationed around the family’s 150-acre ranch.

Mr. Bundy, a lifelong rancher, compares the government escalation to actions that the government has taken in Ruby Ridge, ID and Waco, TX. He contends that the Gold Butte area has been used by his family since the late 1800’s and that he has preemptive rights to the land. Bundy claims that the Bureau of Land Management has clearly “overstepped its boundaries by not letting me access my rights, not recognizing state sovereignty, and having over 200 armed officers watching our every move and stealing our cattle.”

Mr. Bundy’s daughter Shiree Bundy Cox in a letter explains the feud from the family’s perspective:

“I have had people ask me to explain my dad’s stance on this BLM fight. Here it is in as simple of terms as I can explain it. There is so much to it, but here it s in a nut shell. My great grandpa bought the rights to the Bunkerville allotment back in 1887 around there. Then he sold them to my grandpa who then turned them over to my dad in 1972. These men bought and paid for their rights to the range and also built waters, fences and roads to assure the survival of their cattle, all with their own money, not with tax dollars. The rights to the land use are called preemptive rights. Some where down the line, to keep the cows from over grazing, came the Bureau of Land Management. They were supposed to assist the ranchers in the management of their ranges while the ranchers paid a yearly allotment which was to be use to pay the BLM wages and to help with repairs and improvements of the ranches. My dad did pay his grazing fees for years to the BLM until they were no longer using his fees to help him and to improve. Instead they began using these monies against the ranchers. They bought all the rest of the ranchers in the area out with they’re own grazing fees. When they offered to buy my dad out for a penance he said no thanks and then fired them because they weren’t doing their job. He quit paying the BLM and tried giving his grazing fees to the county, which they turned down. So my dad just went on running his ranch and making his own improvements with his own equipment and his own money, not taxes. In essence the BLM was managing my dad out of business. Well when buying him out didn’t work, they used the endangered species card. You’ve already heard about the desert tortoise. Well that didn’t work either, so then began the threats and the court orders, which my dad has proven to be unlawful for all these years. Now they’re desperate. It’s come down to buying the brand inspector off and threatening the County Sheriff. Everything their doing at this point is illegal and totally against the Constitution of the United States of America. Then there’s the issue of the cattle that are at this moment being stolen. See even if dad hasn’t paid them, those cattle belong to him, regardless of where they are they are my father’s property. His herd has been part of that range for over a hundred years, long before the BLM even existed. Now the Feds think they can just come in and remove them and sell them without a legal brand inspection or without my dad’s signature on it. They think they can take them over two borders, which is illegal, ask any trucker. Then they plan to take them to the Richfield Auction and sell them. All this with our tax money. They have paid off the contract cowboys and the auction owner as well as the Nevada brand inspector with our tax dollars. See how slick they are? Well, this is it in a nut shell. Thanks”

The government position is that Bundy owes them for grazing fees that he stopped paying in 1993, which he argued in court that he had no obligation to pay the agency, as his ancestors worked the land before the existence of the Bureau of Land Management. Subsequently, in 1998, the land was declared completely off limits to cattle as it was declared a designated habitat for the federally protected desert tortoise.

Although Clive Bundy attempted to pay the county, they refused his payment. BLM spokeswoman Kirsten Cannon, says that “The estimated amount owed by him… totals $1.1 million.” Cost estimates for the cattles removal from the land are approximately $3 million dollars, which the taxpayer will be responsible for paying.
When Cannon was asked about the claim that snipers are on scene, she refused to confirm or deny the allegation saying, “There are law enforcement and other personnel in place as needed to ensure that the BLM and National Park Services employees and contractors are able to conduct the operation safely. Specific operations information regarding this impoundment will not be released.”

In addition to the heavily armed federal presence, the Bundy’s 37-year-old son Dave was arrested, “following failure to comply with multiple requests by BLM law enforcement to leave the temporary closure area on public lands,” stated Cannon. Dave Bundy was held overnight after being arrested for refusing to disperse and resisting issuance of a citation or arrest. He claims he was arrested and roughed up for filming federal agents while outside an area designated for First Amendment activity on the disputed land. Cannon was unable to explain why he was held overnight and refused to comment on the allegations of brutality.

Through it all, Clive Bundy stands firm stating, “It’s a freedom issue. It’s not about cows. It’s a states rights issue. I really hope that we can learn to defend our liberties here and keep on fighting until the end. I don’t know when the end is going to be, but I believe that America is the greatest land in the world and it needs to be protected. Our rights and liberties need to be protected and we’re going to stand for that.”

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URGENT! Nevada militia is mobilizing! Cliven Bundy ranch

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Confirmed that Southern Nevada Militia is indeed mobilizing.

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Ares Commentary: I pray for peace, but I know it within my heart and soul that it will take a war to get what is rightfully ours returned (our rights, liberties and freedom). I sit back and wonder, have the feds overplayed their hand this time? Will something actually happen this time? Have we learned from Ruby Ridge, and Waco? Do we realize that there is more at risk than just this mans property and land?

Only time will tell. If I lived in Nevada, I would be there, armed, ready, and definitely scared shitless.

Ranch Riot

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Sherriff Richard Mack is a friend of Cliven Bundy and he makes a statement about the Clark county sherriff and what's going on there at this link.

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Or maybe its the trigger for..........................CIVIL WAR..................

Is Sherriff Mack retired? I thought I heard him sign off as retired.

Feds charged with killing cattle in Nevada range war

'They have separated the newborn calves from their mothers'

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Federal officials have now taken to killing the calves and cattle of a Nevada rancher as part of a standoff that his family says has the potential to become another Ruby Ridge, where, in 1992, federal agents shot an unarmed Idaho woman holding a newborn infant in her arms.
“We have seen cows with tight bags, but no calves on them, who are being moved by the BLM,” Ammon Bundy told WND. “This means they have separated the newborn calves from their mothers and they will eventually die.”
Ammon, 38, is the son of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher whose ties to the area go back to the 1880s and who has been engaged in a land dispute since 1993 with the Bureau of Land Management over long-established cattle-grazing rights.
The elder Bundy is the last rancher operating in Clark County, where he’s been grazing his cattle on a 600,000 acre portion of land managed by the BLM called Gold Butte.
However, after years of wrangling back and forth in the courts, last week BLM secured a federal court order declaring Bundy’s herd to be “trespass cattle” and began removing them.
While media outlets have reported the cattle seizures, Ammon Bundy says the impression people have is that the cattle are just being re-located, but he says authorities are going far beyond that and are taking actions resulting in the death of many of Cliven’s cattle.
“They are flying helicopters over the herd to chase them,” Ammon said. “It was over 90 degrees here today, and the cattle can’t run very far in this heat before collapsing. This is especially true for the young calves. We have a lot of them being born because it is springtime, and they don’t have the strength to keep up with their mothers when they are running. The cattle then become overheated and die.”
Since 1998 the Gold Butte area has been off-limits to cattle grazing because it has been designated home of the protected desert tortoise. Despite that, ranchers have been continuously using the land. BLM officials say they are tired of local citizens ignoring their regulations, and they feel they have exhausted all other options — enough is enough.
“For more than two decades, cattle have been grazed illegally on public lands in northeast Clark County,” BLM said in a statement. “BLM and (the National Park Service) have made repeated attempts to resolve this matter administratively and judicially. Impoundment of cattle illegally grazing on public lands is an option of last resort.”
Following the actions taken by the federal government, the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmentalist group praised the federal government for taking action.
“Despite having no legal right to do so, cattle from Bundy’s ranch have continued to graze throughout the Gold Butte area, competing with tortoises for food, hindering the ability of plants to recover from extensive wildfires, trampling rare plants, damaging ancient American Indian cultural sites and threatening the safety of recreationists, ( they must have a script writer)” Rob Mrowka, a spokesman for the organization, said in a statement.
The government appears to taking steps to escalate the situation, causing concern the incident could develop into another Ruby Ridge or Waco episode where federal agents engage in assaults with mass civilian casualties.
Bundy told The Blaze over 200 armed federal officers currently are in the area, and his wife Carol said it appears snipers now surround the family’s 150 acre ranch.
Officials would neither confirm nor deny the sniper allegation to The Blaze.
Additionally, Cliven’s son, Dave Bundy was taken into custody after allegedly being roughed up for simply taking pictures along State Road 170, which has been closed. His camera was confiscated.
“They gave my nephew Dave a concussion, stomped him on the ground to where he has kidney problems,” Kay Sessions, Dave’s aunt told WND. “They hauled him to jail and interrogated him all night before letting him go. Before they took him to jail officials left him in a hot vehicle for three hours.”
“He was trying to get pictures of what government officials are doing and they confiscated his camera and tablet.”
Ammon said while what happened to his brother Dave was bad enough, federal officials have turned up the pressure yet again when they attacked him and members of a group peacefully protesting the removal of the cattle.
“We were protesting peacefully when, suddenly, 14 units with Rangers came off the mountain — 13 of them were armed ranger vehicles with two rangers per unit,” Ammon explained. “There was about 50 of us protesting when we went over to see what was in a dump truck that was with them, because we were afraid this might have been a rendering vehicle, and we wanted to know what was in the back of the truck.”
He said the rangers got out of their vehicles and the situation escalated.
“Things got pretty ugly for awhile. They threw a 65-year-old woman on the ground, they tased me twice and they had dogs out there.”
The situation had the potential to spiral out of control rapidly. The Nevada Militia issued an alert on the Bundy Ranch’s Facebook page calling for supporters to mobilize in the area.
“Nevada Militia is mobilizing and requesting mutual aid if any Winter Soldier wishes to go, no further permission is needed — you may do as you wish. We will be monitoring the situation at this time as a group,” the alert said.
The alert concluded, “If things escalate we will mobilize as a group.”
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) spoke out in opposition to the BLM’s establishment of so-called “First Amendment areas,” which are the only areas the federal agency will allow Americans to protest the removal.
“Most disturbing to me is the BLM’s establishment of a ‘First Amendment area’ that tramples upon Nevadans’ fundamental rights under the U.S. Constitution,” Sandoval said in a statement Tuesday.
Clark County’s sheriff has called for both sides to resolve the issue peacefully, telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “no drop of human blood is worth spilling over any cow.”
Ammon said while local officials are rattling the saber against the federal incursion, they are not willing to actually stand up to protect residents of their state and county from federal officials.
“The local sheriff has said they are not going to get involved in what is happening, saying this is a BLM issue. This means they are leaving us completely vulnerable, because the BLM are the only side with the weapons and if they decide to use violent force there is nothing we can do.”
Cliven said he sees the issue as one of long-established rights going back to the early days of America versus a federal government determined to regulate average citizens out of business to achieve their own ends.
“I have raised cattle on that land, which is public land for the people of Clark County, all my life. Why I raise cattle there, and why I can raise cattle there, is because I have preemptive rights,” he said, explaining that among them is the right to forage.
“Who is the trespasser here? Who is the trespasser on this land? Is the United States trespassing on Clark County, Nevada, land? Or is it Cliven Bundy who is trespassing on Clark County, Nevada, land? Who’s the trespasser?”


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In accordance with Arizona gun laws, the registration of firearms is not necessary. In addition, there is no requirement of permits or application for license to purchase, posses, or carry firearms. The sole exception pertains to the carrying of firearms, where a permit is needed to carry a concealed handgun.

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In accordance with Arizona gun laws, the registration of firearms is not necessary. In addition, there is no requirement of permits or application for license to purchase, posses, or carry firearms. The sole exception pertains to the carrying of firearms, where a permit is needed to carry a concealed handgun.

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Does this mean you can carry open? I think open carry is the way to go in a free society. Then everyone is on the same page. Be in no doubt that you could pull a fast one on somebody and get away with it. It seems odd that you could open carry but need a permit to hide your gun upon your person.

Not sure what that has to do with Nevada though. They are not even contiguous states.? does Nevada need to succeed to Arizona?

Not sure but today should be interesting. The Militia is organizing a 'get together' in the area, have not seen any recent updates yet.

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Not sure what that has to do with Nevada though. They are not even contiguous states.? does Nevada need to succeed to Arizona?

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Both Arizona and Nevada are part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

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In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.

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Mexican is not a nationality in that Mexico is a federation much like the U.S. The treaty speaks to a species of federal citizenship and does not address the concept of other nationalities that might exist on the land.

I just bring this up because Arizona and Nevada do spring from the same source and even from others that predate the U.S. and Mexico.

man I love this place. I'm watching with something, anticipation or what ever. The people seem to be rousing. It is a portend that could be momentus. Its a bit of an inkling, a ripple. An awakening. it seems to be happening all over.

Let them cry Freedom!

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Does this mean you can carry open? I think open carry is the way to go in a free society. Then everyone is on the same page. Be in no doubt that you could pull a fast one on somebody and get away with it. It seems odd that you could open carry but need a permit to hide your gun upon your person. Not sure what that has to do with Nevada though. They are not even contiguous states.? does Nevada need to succeed to Arizona?

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We can open carry here in Nevada. Nevada and Aizona are contiguous separated by the Colorado River

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Wow made it to faux nooz, guess it's some kind of joke. Can't find anything new on this, wonder if it's being blocked.

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Update Cliven Bundy Town Board meeting Yesterday 04/09/14

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Release Date: 02/19/14
Contacts: Jessica Kershaw (DOI) , 202-208-6416 David Quick (BLM) , 202-912-7413
Secretary Jewell Announces Two Solar Projects Approved in California, Nevada
Projects mark the 49th and 50th utility-scale renewable energy projects approved on public lands since 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to reduce carbon pollution, create jobs and move our economy toward clean energy sources, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the approval of two solar energy projects located near the Nevada-California border that are expected to supply 550 megawatts of renewable energy, enough to power about 170,000 homes, and support more than 700 jobs through construction and operations. Today’s approvals bring to 50 the number of utility-scale renewable energy proposals and associated transmission that the Interior Department has approved since 2009, including 27 solar, 11 wind, and 12 geothermal projects. Together, the projects could support more than 20,000 construction and operations jobs and, when built, generate nearly 14,000 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power 4.8 million homes. Thirteen of the projects are already in operation, including the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a 377-megawatt solar thermal plant that started commercial operations and delivering power to California’s electric grid last week. “When President Obama first took office in 2009, there were no solar projects approved on public lands, and no process in place to move forward the hundreds of applications pending from businesses that wanted to harness renewable energy to help power our nation,” said Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. “With today’s milestone of 50 utility-scale renewable energy projects approved on public lands since our standing start in 2009, and with a number of those already producing energy for the nation’s electric grid, our clean energy future is bright.” The first project is the 300-megawatt Stateline Solar Farm Project, a facility that will be built in San Bernardino County, California, on approximately 1,685 acres of public land located two miles south of the California-Nevada border. Using photovoltaic panels, the facility will generate enough electricity to power approximately 90,000 homes and create an estimated 400 jobs during construction and 12 permanent jobs during operations. The facility will connect to the grid via a 2.7-mile 220-kilovolt transmission line. The second project is the 250-megawatt Silver State South Solar Project located near Primm, Nevada on approximately 2,400 acres of public land. The facility is expected to power approximately 80,000 homes and will be located adjacent to the 50-megawatt Silver State North Project, the first solar plant on public lands to deliver power to the grid. Silver State South will also use photovoltaic panels and will generate an estimated 300 jobs during construction and 15 permanent operations jobs. Both projects are proposed by the company First Solar and have commitments from Southern California Edison to purchase the projects’ output for 20 years. “These solar projects reflect exemplary cooperation between the Bureau of Land Management and other federal, state and local agencies, enabling a thorough environmental review and robust mitigation provisions,” said BLM Principal Deputy Director Neil Kornze. “Secretary Jewell’s commitment to a landscape-level approach represents a responsible balance between the need for renewable energy and our mandate to protect the public’s natural resources.” First Solar has agreed to undertake significant project design changes and mitigation measures to minimize impacts to wildlife, water, historical, cultural and other resources. For example, the BLM worked on the Stateline proposal to reduce the project’s footprint by more than 20 percent to avoid and minimize project impacts. In addition, as part of ongoing efforts to protect the threatened Desert Tortoise, the BLM is expanding the nearby Ivanpah Desert Wildlife Management Area by more than 20,000 acres and requiring that the developer protect three times the area that the project will disturb. For the Silver State South project, the project design was modified to reduce the size of the facility by 100 megawatts. Mitigation measures include soil stabilization to prevent erosion and polluted runoff. In addition, the developer must fund over $3.6 million for Desert Tortoise mitigation and $3.5 million for studies intended to guide future efforts to protect the Desert Tortoise in the project area. The company must also assess the project’s potential adverse impact if archaeological properties at the site are found to be eligible for National Register of Historic Places listing. “As we implement the President’s Climate Action Plan to generate jobs, cut carbon pollution and move our economy toward clean energy sources, we need to do so in a way that takes the long view and avoids or minimizes conflicts with important natural and cultural resources,” added Jewell. Additional information on the projects is available here.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM's mission is to manage and conserve the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations under our mandate of multiple-use and sustained yield. In Fiscal Year 2013, the BLM generated $4.7 billion in receipts from public lands.
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None of these stories are putting the whole thing together...

Standoff at Nevada Ranch Drags On
‘The feelings run very high’
http://s2.freebeacon.com/up/2014/04/...51-540x359.jpgGovernment helicopters circle the Bundy ranch / Cliven and Carol Bundy

BY: Elizabeth Harrington Follow @LizWFB
April 10, 2014 10:30 am

A Nevada state senator is worried about the possibility of violence as the standoff between rancher Cliven Bundy’s family and heavily armed federal agents continued.

As previously reported by the Washington Free Beacon, an estimated 200 armed officials have surrounded the Bundy ranch, providing security for contractors to remove 908 cows designated by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as “trespass cattle.”

Carol Bundy told the Free Beacon on Wednesday afternoon that there had been “no incidents, yet.”
Nevada state Sen. Peter Goicoechea (R.) expressed concern that the federal government was exacerbating the problem.

“This morning was the first I actually heard that there were military personnel there,” said Goicoechea, who is also a public land rancher. “If, in fact, we actually have military personnel down in that area because that equates to martial law.”

Goicoechea brought up the questionable handling of a previous case by armed BLM officers in the state two months ago.

“We have always challenged that BLM Rangers have no jurisdiction or police powers in the state of Nevada,” Goicoechea said. “They typically are an unsworn officer. And we had the case where a young man was shot a couple months ago at Red Rock by two BLM Rangers.”

The BLM officers shot and killed an unarmed young man in February near the Red Rock National Conservation Area, just outside of Las Vegas.

A graphic video documented the encounter. BLM officers fought with the suspect, ultimately shooting him seven times when he attempted to get into a Nevada Highway Patrol vehicle and remove an AR-15 rifle from a locked compartment, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.

“He was definitely disoriented, he was unarmed, and they were questioning him, along the state highway,” Goicoechea said. “And if you press for this they’ll tell you it’s still under investigation.”

“They shot him seven times, killed him dead,” he said. “They said, well, they thought he was trying to get—there was a highway patrolman there, and they said it looked like he was trying to get into the highway patrolman vehicle, and we were afraid he’d get the shotgun out of there. So they shot him. They killed him.”

BLM officials arrested Dave Bundy, Cliven’s son, on Sunday, for taking pictures along a blocked of area on state highway 170. Carol Bundy said the officials “bruised him up pretty good,” and held him for 24 hours.

Goicoechea said this is not the first impoundment of cattle in the state, but typically county governments have handled public safety. A former county commissioner, Goicoechea said he never allowed for any roads to be closed.

“Don’t get me wrong, [impoundments] aren’t without incident,” he said. “The feelings run very high.”
Like the Bundys, Goicoechea’s family has ranched in Nevada for more than a century.

“Those of us that have spent generations here, my granddaughters are still pounding cows down the same trails my grandfather did,” he said. “We’ve been here well over 100 years, and livestock is our living, and by hook or crook we’ve ended up in some kind of politics.”

The dispute between the Bundys and the BLM revolves around unpaid “grazing fees” and public land that has been closed off to protect the “desert tortoise.”

The BLM designated 186,909 acres of the Gold Butte off limits for the “critical desert tortoise” population in 1998. Bundy had already lost his grazing permit five years earlier for refusing to pay fees for the land, which his family has ranched since the 1870s.

Since the 1800s ranchers have taken up homesteads and used land for their cattle herds. Ranchers abided by the “Three-mile Water Law,” which entitled them to grazing rights for land three miles around water the rancher owned or maintained. Disputes were settled amongst the ranchers themselves.

“There have been people shot through the last century over grazing disputes,” Goicoechea said. “There’s no doubt about it.”

Until 1934, disagreements over the land were not adjudicated. The “Taylor Grazing Act,” signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, set up districts for grazing on public land, and issued permits to ranchers for a more orderly process.

However, those permits for the majority of Clark County—including the permit for the Bundy Ranch—were transferred in 1998 to the Habitat Conservation Plan to protect the desert tortoise.

The tortoise is protected under the Endangered Species Act. However, Goicoechea says they don’t need any protecting, citing a recently passed Nevada regulation that imposed a one tortoise limit per person to “reduce the overbreeding and proliferation of unwanted pet desert tortoises.”

“People will get two or three of ‘em and all of a sudden they come home one night and you’ve got 15 of ‘em,” Goicoechea said. “I guess they’re diggy little boogers, they go under sidewalks and patios. So tortoises were causing damage in their neighbors’ yards.”

“We’re talking about an endangered species that in fact went out there and removed all these people off the public lands under the intent of protecting that desert tortoise,” he said.
“They have adapted, and they’re doing very well.”

The Fish and Wildlife Service lists the species as “threatened.”
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Breaking: BLM to enter Bundy Ranch Proper!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPgIYNGzSDg

Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPgIYNGzSDg

I don't even want to watch this story. I just know the Feds will win and the American people will lose in the end. Americans always lose and the Feds always win. It's so disgusting. Everything feels hopeless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkWljeiAhYI#t=20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkWljeiAhYI#t=20

BREAKING: Ryan Bundy Calls From Cliven Ranch with Urgent Message: No Backing Down (4/10/14)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS8XItlAOr4

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS8XItlAOr4

I just don't see the beast doing anything other than totally crushing anyone or anything it its way. However I'd love to be wrong.

As many people as there can be should just go into the ranch, by what ever means, to support this guy.....another open killing and there WILL BE A REVOLUTION.

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BLM fracking racket exposed! Armed siege and cattle theft from Bundy ranch really about fracking leases

(NaturalNews) The Bureau of Land Management says its 200-man armed siege of the Cliven Bundy ranch in Nevada is all about protecting an "endangered tortoise." But a Natural News investigation has found that BLM is actually in the business of raking in millions of dollars by leasing Nevada lands to energy companies that engage in fracking operations.

This document from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology(1) shows significant exploratory drilling being conducted in precisely the same area where the Bundy family has been running cattle since the 1870's. The "Gold Butte" area is indicated on the lower right corner of the document (see below), and it clearly shows numerous exploratory drilling operations have been conducted there.

What's also clear is that oil has been found in nearby areas and possibly even within the Gold Butte area itself.

It is, of course, customary for the U.S. government to bring armed soldiers to an oil dispute. (Operation "Iraqi Freedom" for starters...) Heavily armed snipers, helicopters and militarized soldiers have never been invoked over tortoises. (Anyone who thinks this siege is about reptiles is kidding themselves.)

Here's the map showing the oil exploration conducted on the land where Bundy runs his cattle (all the red crosshairs are oil and gas exploration drilling operations):

http://www.naturalnews.com/images/Bu...roleum-589.jpg

BLM collects $1.27 million in shale fracking leases
The Bureau of Land Management has just cashed in with $1.27 million in oil and gas leases in Nevada. This was just reported two weeks ago in ShaleReporter.com, which states:

U.S. Bureau of Land Management geologist Lorenzo Trimble tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal the Elko County oil and gas leases sold Tuesday for $1.27 million to six different companies. The auction took place in Reno. The leases are near where Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. wants to drill for oil and natural gas on 40,000 acres of public and private land near the town of Wells. The Review-Journal reports the project would be the first in Nevada to use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract oil and gas from shale deposits.

The way this works, of course, is that BLM runs land theft operations by claiming they are "managing" the land and thereby kicking everyone else off it. They then invoke a reptile, an owl, a bird, a snake or some other animal which they claim to be "saving," even while they are stealing and destroying hundreds of cattle belonging to a private rancher trying to make an honest living in a nation where productive Americans are increasingly branded "enemies of the state."

Once control of the land is established via court order or by bringing armed men with automatic weapons, BLM then turns around and leases the land to fracking companies who proceed to exploit the land using hydraulic fracturing techniques that inject toxic chemicals into groundwater supplies (and have been linked to earthquakes). The money collected by the BLM is then used to increase BLM salaries and bonuses.

In essence, the BLM is a criminal mafia racket, and Cliven Bundy just happened to be in the way of their next target, the Gold Butte area of Nevada. That is why they brought hundreds of heavily armed men to a "save the tortoise" operation.

"Endangered tortoises" is merely the government cover story for confiscating land to turn it over to fracking companies for millions of dollars in energy leases. In truth, the BLM was rapidly euthanizing these very same reptiles en masse last year.

As part of its police state intimidation to control the land, BLM unleashed attack dogs on a pregnant woman.

See the brutality invoked by the BLM against peaceful protesters in this video of a near-riot just outside the Bundy ranch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LhJ6H9vlEDA

Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=LhJ6H9vlEDA

Does anyone really believe this is still about a tortoise?

More details from a man on location:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pMqGlZEUDus
link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=pMqGlZEUDus

http://www.naturalnews.com/044670_bl...#ixzz2yWmkCxn7

fracken frackers................

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Originally Posted by Serpo

fracken frackers................

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Makes perfect sense now. I knew the BLM cover story of preserving a tortoise was bullshit. They could care less since they euthanized a bunch of them last year.

At first I thought it was about the land, nope it's about the money they can make from selling off the land to leasing rights....But first got to get rid of those pesky ranchers....

One view of the 90 acres in New London Connecticut which SCOTUS awarded to a private developer under 'eminent domain' which was wiped clean of the homes of dozens of families and is now an eyesore (it was for the greater good) -

http://therealrevo.com/blog/wp-conte...09/11/kelo.jpg

This is WAR, ****** it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


these little stars replaced my word god and dam automatically....

I wouldn't think fracking and cattle ranching are mutually exclusive activities.