by Kerry Picket
North Dakota authorities say slaughtered and missing livestock have
been reported around the area of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest
camp.
The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association and the Sioux County
Sheriff’s Department, along with other law enforcement agencies, are
investigating two specific cases near Cannon Ball, Forum News Service reported.
“The issue is [the protesters] are leaving the peace camp. In fact,
in many cases we have situations where they’re not anywhere near that
area, and they’re camping out in different areas and there’s guerrilla
tactics and warfare that’s implemented. They go out and strike and run
and it’s an issue,” North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goerhring
told GCN Radio’s Scott Hennen.
Goehring explained, “They’re trespassing on private property, they’re
destroying property. Now we’ve been able to confirm numerous animals
that are missing, have been slaughtered. We have issues where people
can’t even travel out there in the countryside, back and forth to their
farms and their ranches, going to the pasture, going to the fields. They
can’t get harvest done, they can’t get truck drivers in the haul grain
out.”
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.
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