Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Why are the Woolgrowers Litigating the Payette Sheep Decision 2 Years Later?
With little hope that they will prevail in Idaho District Court people
are asking why the Idaho Wool Growers Association, American Sheep
Industry Association, Public Lands Council, and sheep ranchers from
Wyoming and Colorado have begun litigation now. According to the latest
gossip, the woolgrowers hope for a Romney Administration in 2013. The
woolgrowers think that, if they file litigation now, they might be able
to get a new administration to force the US Forest Service to settle the
litigation in their favor once Romney is in office. Why, other than out of sheer desperation, are the woolgrowers bringing
this litigation if this is the case? It is clear that the woolgrowers
want to reverse or contain the Payette Decision to just the Payette
National Forest. Woolgrowers are concerned that the science and process
used to close sheep grazing on the Payette National Forest will be used
to protect bighorn sheep that are threatened by disease across the
West. They feel entitled to graze their sheep everywhere they currently
do despite a clear threat to bighorn sheep on public lands...more
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