150 Militia Take Over Makhuer National Wildlife Preserve Headquarters

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Dunbar's "ranch" is 42 acres. Forty two acres won't support anyone in this day and age. He and his son were each paid $2000 by the FBI from early January until February for access to their property. I suspect the man has a full time job with one of the federal agencies.

Who in their right mind calves heifers in January? Sorta like catching carp frozen in the ice.

There are people who calve that early but they need a shed to calve in and they need to watch the cattle round the clock during calving. I suppose the weather is similar to where I live maybe without as much wind. I've traveled through that area in winter and it was cold and there was plenty of snow. The reason some do that is because they move their cattle to summer grazing and want the calves big enough to move with their mothers when the grass has grown enough for grazing.

Dunbar and his son must have more land than that somewhere if they make their living running cattle as he said. He may own enough land in other locations to grow feed and hold cattle when they can't be grazing. He would also need to have grazing permits to move them too when allowed by the BLM.

Dunbar may very well have income from anther source than cattle. I don't think Tom Davis of "The cowboy and the Lady" owns very much land either but he also deals in real estate besides running some bucking horses for putting on rodeos.

I don't think Dunbar will have endeared himself to other ranchers in the area taking money from the FBI and testifying for them against the Bundys. I'm pretty sure the BLM won't be cutting the number of cattle that he can run on permits either like they did to other ranchers. I'd sure as hell lose respect for and avoid a guy that would help the BLM and FBI like he's done against the Hammonds and Bundys.