JoseCuervo
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This Welfare Rancher is flippin' amazing!!! The guy is suing the BLM cause he took a risk in ranching, and lost. And now, he wants the BLM to pay for his loss!!!
This is a complete waste of the court systems!
. I can't believe we have greedy lawyers who will even take these frivilous cases.
This Welfare Rancher now wants the government to cover his losses. What about the next guy, whose cattle don't gain the extra 50 pounds he was hoping for, will he sue for the lost weight?
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DIETRICH, Idaho – A rancher is suing the Bureau of Land Management over a wildfire that killed 774 head of cattle.
Hubert Shaw lost his livestock to a lightning-sparked fire that scorched thousands of acres of rangeland in August 2000. The BLM says it’s not responsible for the risk Shaw took on public lands.
Shaw said insurance and a disaster loan compensated him for only about 25 percent of his losses, which he totaled at more than $1.3 million. “I’m still in financial trouble,” he said.
His suit contends BLM “has a duty and obligation to clean up dead grass, dry weeds, dead sagebrush and other flammable materials” that caught fire on the Star Lake West grazing allotment in Lincoln and Jerome counties.
Shaw claims he warned the bureau about the hazard but that it did nothing, then told him his livestock was not in danger. But the fire picked up and raced across 20,000 acres in one evening.
The Department of the Interior denies its Bureau of Land Management was responsible.
BLM rangeland management specialist Tom Miles said nothing in law or regulations requires the agency to reduce fuel loads or prevent fire on grazing allotments.
“That’s one of the risks you have in public lands grazing,” he said.
The case could go to trial in federal court next year.
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This Welfare Rancher now wants the government to cover his losses. What about the next guy, whose cattle don't gain the extra 50 pounds he was hoping for, will he sue for the lost weight?
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DIETRICH, Idaho – A rancher is suing the Bureau of Land Management over a wildfire that killed 774 head of cattle.
Hubert Shaw lost his livestock to a lightning-sparked fire that scorched thousands of acres of rangeland in August 2000. The BLM says it’s not responsible for the risk Shaw took on public lands.
Shaw said insurance and a disaster loan compensated him for only about 25 percent of his losses, which he totaled at more than $1.3 million. “I’m still in financial trouble,” he said.
His suit contends BLM “has a duty and obligation to clean up dead grass, dry weeds, dead sagebrush and other flammable materials” that caught fire on the Star Lake West grazing allotment in Lincoln and Jerome counties.
Shaw claims he warned the bureau about the hazard but that it did nothing, then told him his livestock was not in danger. But the fire picked up and raced across 20,000 acres in one evening.
The Department of the Interior denies its Bureau of Land Management was responsible.
BLM rangeland management specialist Tom Miles said nothing in law or regulations requires the agency to reduce fuel loads or prevent fire on grazing allotments.
“That’s one of the risks you have in public lands grazing,” he said.
The case could go to trial in federal court next year.
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