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Todd Ourston (todd@linex.com) wrote:
: Don Baccus (donb@rational.com) wrote:
: : Federal grazing rights are normally attached to a ranch, i.e. if you
: : buy a ranch you usually get the grazing rights which belong to it.

: Federal grazing tights do not belong to a ranch, they are leased by the 
: federal government to ranchers.

As Ralph mentioned, rights are given in 10-year chunks, and
stay with the ranch if ownership changes hands.

: : When the feds began actually managing the open range on a permit
: : system, the historical claims of various ranches were recognized.
: : As they still are today.

: The supposed "prior rights" to federal grazing lands were disavowed by 
: the Supreme Court a quarter century before the federal government began 
: managing its rangelands under a permitting system.

I didn't say that prior rights had been recognized, simply that grazing
policy and the doling out of allotments has been done in a manner
largely consistent with the historical use by ranchers.  This is
a different thing.  There is no inconsistency in saying "no, it
isn't your RIGHT, but we'll do what you want anyway", which for
a long stretch of history pretty much sums up BLM management of
rangelands.

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- Don Baccus -