“Statement by the National Cattlemen’s Beef
Association & Public Lands Council on Livestock Grazing on
Public Lands - Submitted to the Subcommittee on Forest and Forest
Health, The Honorable Greg Waldren, Chairman, of the House Committee
on Resources, The Honorable Richard Pombo, Chairman - By Mr.
Jim Chilton, April 13, 2005”
Describing the lawsuit assaults by the Center
for Biological Diversity and the Forest Guardians to enjoin cattle
grazing on the Chilton’s federal
grazing allotments, Jim Chilton lays bare the way that radical
preservationists have hijacked the failed Endangered Species
Act for purposes that Congress did not intend.
See Also
Websites
Chilton Ranch, Arivaca, Arizona
www.chiltonranch.com
The Chilton website focuses on their successsful lawsuit against
the Center for Biodiversity.
address
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In-Depth Information
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 “Rancher
Frank Robbins Loses at the Supreme Court” - By Carol
W. LaGrasse, Reprinted from the New York Property Rights Clearinghouse,
Vol. 11, No. 3 (PRFA Summer 2007.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a mercurial decision
in Robbins v. Wilkie reversing the jury verdict that Bureau
of Land Management officials violated the Fifth Amendment private
property rights of Frank Robbins by repeatedly harassing him
to retaliate because he refused to grant a free right-of-way
easement across his Wyoming ranch. Only Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
held that Robbins’ property rights deserved protection.
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 “RICO Action-Rancher
Stops BLM Access Extortion” - By Karen Budd-Falen, Esq.,
Senior Attorney, Budd-Falen Law Office, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Tenth
Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Albany, N.Y., October 14, 2006)
When officials of the federal Bureau of Land Management used
repeated harassment to try to intimidate Frank Robbins into granting
an easement across his property, the owner of High Island Ranch
in Wyoming sued the individual officials under RICO, the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The Tenth Circuit Court
of Appeals ruled in favor of Robbins.
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 “Turning
the Tables-Defamation Suit Defeats Environmental Group”-
By James K. Chilton, Jr., Chilton Ranch & Cattle Co., Arivaca,
Arizona, Tenth annual National Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, Albany, NY, October 14, 2006)
James Chilton won a ruling in Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
that his ranch could not be regulated under NEPA because of potential
habitat when the species under consideration was not present.
Afterwards, Mr. Chilton successfully brought a defamation suit
against the Center for Biological Diversity for their publication
of photos to maliciously misrepresent conditions on his ranch.
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 “The
Pleistocene Park Project—Removing Civilization from North
America” - By Robert J. Smith, Adjunct Environmental
Scholar, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Speech to the Ninth
Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Albany, N.Y., October 22, 2005)
Environmental scholars proposed in August 2005 to restore
the ecosystem and all the large animals that roamed North America
at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, replacing extinct mammals
with Asian and African counterparts, including elephants, lions,
cheetahs, camels, wild horses and a giant tortoise, while eliminating
human beings from ten states from Canada to Mexico, from the
east edge of the Rockies to just west of the Mississippi River.
This is just the latest of radical environmental proposals that
are viewed as credible and explain what the environmental leadership
is about.
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 “Greetings”
- By Matthew McKeown, Deputy Solicitor, U.S. Department of Interior;
Speech to the Eighth Annual Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 23, 2004)
The Secretary of Interior is committed to protecting water
rights of ranchers, using the Healthy Forest Initiative to restore
communities in the Northwest, working with landowners to protect
habitat under the Endangered Species Act, and establishing a
way to settle RS2477 access roads.
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 “Open Range, Fact
or Fiction” - By Jack W. Herzberg (Used by permission,
copyright 2004 Jack W. Herzberg)
The U. S. Forest Service does not respect the property rights
of inholders. Instead, the agency allows cattle and sheep graziers
to permit their livestock to graze in unfenced, posted fields.
The law requires that livestock owners have a duty of ordinary
care to prevent the trespass of their livestock on posted lands,
whether fenced or not.
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- “Adverse
Possession and Open Range” - by Jack Herzberg (PRFA,
September 2004)
James and Carla Davis intend to use their range land in Pinal
County, Arizona, to enjoy their retirement and develop an old
west town. Instead, they find themselves in court defending against
the claim of Joe and Carmen Auza, who assert adverse possession
in the spurious basis that they’ve been grazing animals
on the Davis’s property.
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- “Open Range
Warfare — The 2003 Version” - By Ron Zumbrun (Reprinted
by permission, from The Daily Recorder, City of Sacramento,
October 13, 2003)
Plumus County, California adopted an open range ordinance,
forcing property owners to allow cattle grazing. Jack and Millie
Herzberg are suing for trespass and illegal rent control. They
want full compensation and liability insurance.
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- “Endangered
Species Act is racketeering” — Don Fife (Guest
Commentary, The Leader, Lucerne Valley, California, February
6, 2002)
The Bureau of Land Management is trying to shut down Dave
Fisher’s family ranch, saying that the cattle compete
with the desert tortoise for food, but the truth is that “the
greatest threat to the tortoise is the incompetence of the BLM
biologists.”
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- “BLM’s
way of Protecting the Tortoise”-By Don Fife (2001)
The BLM is trying to shut down Dave Fisher’s ranch
under the guise that the cattle compete with the tortoise for
food, but the greatest threat to the tortoise is the incompetence
of the BLM wildlife biologists.
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