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Grazing cattle on public land

I think we need to start in on the cow girl pics too!

Just cause you asked. ;)

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I think most of the poster here are missing the bigger picture. The Ranching community has elements in it, that are responsible for our lousy wildlife picture. If your a Rancher, and don't have a problem with feed some wildlife them say so. Get involved with your own peers, and change the fight. We should be on the same side.

Ranchers should:
1) Give up on trying to privatize our wildlife resource.
2).Allow for a balanced amount of wildlife, and recognize that they lived here long before ranching.
3). Stop the repeated attacks against wildlife because of fear of competition. Shooter doesn't care about producers that get subsides, but I will go out on a limb and guess he's totally against Bison.
4). Stop trying to control where we sportsman spend our money. If we saved up to purchase ranches for wildlife habitat, and to hunt on then that's the American way. Get over it.
5). Quite trying to control our Fish & Game department, do you see us trying to legislate the Dept. of livestock?
 
PS- Thanks for putting own in quotation marks as one does not own a permit, they might have preference for one though... ;)

Ah the timing. I was at RMP/cooperators meeting today discussing LWC's and new sage-grouse guidance. After the meeting one of the county commisioners stopped me and told me how good the wildlife habitat is "on the BLM he owns". I am sure he knows better, but interesting how some folks view a permit.:D
 
Ah the timing. I was at RMP/cooperators meeting today discussing LWC's and new sage-grouse guidance. After the meeting one of the county commisioners stopped me and told me how good the wildlife habitat is "on the BLM he owns". I am sure he knows better, but interesting how some folks view a permit.:D

I've run into this before it makes me sick. Many in Central MT think they own state sections they lease and will try to run you off. I've seen it with state and BLM out East as well.
 
Ah the timing. I was at RMP/cooperators meeting today discussing LWC's and new sage-grouse guidance. After the meeting one of the county commisioners stopped me and told me how good the wildlife habitat is "on the BLM he owns". I am sure he knows better, but interesting how some folks view a permit.:D


Sometimes it is almost like the line between deeded and leased is blurred...

The North Platte River is the focal point of this secluded and scenic river property. With approximately four miles of frontage on the North Platte River, this 1,500± deeded and 320± acre BLM parcel is unimproved. The ranch is being split from a larger operation based on the centerline of the river.

Lazy JS Ranch - Weston County, Wyoming 5,195 deeded acres - $2,500,000 Low overhead yearling or cow/calf operation in northeastern Wyoming. A total of 8,916 acres which includes 5,195 deeded acres, and an adjacent 3,641 acre National Grasslands grazing permit and an 80 acre State of Wyoming lease.

The choice property now being offered by the owners comprises a

beautiful, balanced ranch, consisting of approximately 24,000 acres,

cross-fenced into 7 strategic pastures.

Approximate Acreage:

3,700 Deeded Acres
3,020 State of Wyoming leased acres
16,000 BLM leased acres
1,280 Private lease
24,000 Total Contiguous Acres


The Judith River Ranch
This scenic ranch is located in the Judith Basin of Central Montana in Fergus County, about 10 miles west of the town of Winifred. It has been owned and managed by the same family for over 20 years and consists of 3818 deeded acres, with an adjoining 1777 acres of state land and BLM leases, for a total size of approximately...

The epitome of the West, this classic Montana Ranch is expansive, private, mountainous and full of horses, cattle, wildlife and cowboy and indian history. The Horse Prairie Ranch is one of Montana’s historic reputation ranches, acclaimed by USA Today as one of the 10 Best Places to be a Cowboy. It includes 30,000± acres of combined deeded (8,281± acres) and leased (22,439± acres) lands in one private block in a mountain valley surrounded by other large cattle ranches, forested mountains and thousand of acres of public lands. Aspen-lined streams emanating from the adjoining evergreen forest course for miles through the ranch’s grass, sage and irrigated hay lands. Horses, cattle, elk, deer and antelope dot the landscape. The panorama stretches for 30 miles to the tops of surrounding mountain ranges and night reveals only a handful of neighboring lights under a canopy of brilliant stars. Privacy is assured, yet the cow-town center of southwest Montana, Dillon, is within 45 minutes. The Horse Prairie Ranch is unique in its setting with headquarters in the center of the ranch and the private owner and guest cabins next to USFS lands in the upper reaches of the ranch. Reduced to $11,950,000.
 
Here is the rub with that comment. That land is our land and we have a right to use it and that does mean everyone. The difference is that most of us are not using it for profit unlike the ranchers. Ask Fin about the cost to try to make a profit off filming in the national forest. If I go up and film a hunt for broadcast it costs me 150 dollars a day to do that. That is the same cost it is to run a hundred cattle for a month. I have a huge issue with ranchers that make a profit off using public land and then bitch about the damage that wildlife does to their property.

CLASSIC line right there. You guys wanting cows off PUBLIC land are no different than the fat-assed ATVers wanting every friggin trail open to them year round; or the wolf-huggin nature purists that want not hunting on public grounds; or the log/mine every acre crowd....... At least the rancher PAYS something for his use. And before you come back with that tired-assed "I'm a taxpayer, so I pay to use this land" line, SO IS THE RANCHER!
Also, a profit doen't have to be made by someone for them receive a subsidy.
One more thing, Shoots Straight, you have got to be about the dumbest son of a bitch posting on the internet.
 
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Well Played, now we have welfare hunters and welfare ranchers. I farm but have seen the other side too. The cowboy in CO.unit 25 who seemed to be driving an endless supply of cattle thru an area to keep the elk on the private land. Two beef bulls fighting over the last blade of grass on the Grand Mesa. The sheep that had the grass shorter than my lawn, and the worst was getting water out of a stream only to find a dead beef cow upsream.

Call the govt. agency in charge of managing the area and tell them to get their ass off the internet and go out and do their job.
 
the way to fix that is for the state to issue cow tags,and allow people to hunt them on public land on october 1 of every year,and if they charge say 50.00 a tag.
i guarrantee if that happend,the ranchers would not have there cows on public land,while us hunters are out hunting.
and if these ranchers would allow us hunters to hunt on there land,and not charge a hunter a arm and a leg to do so,then they would have less of a problem with wild ammimals eating there feed,and wild ammimals harming there livestock.:D
 
CLASSIC line right there. You guys wanting cows off PUBLIC land are no different than the fat-assed ATVers wanting every friggin trail open to them year round; or the wolf-huggin nature purists that want not hunting on public grounds; or the log/mine every acre crowd....... At least the rancher PAYS something for his use. And before you come back with that tired-assed "I'm a taxpayer, so I pay to use this land" line, SO IS THE RANCHER!
Also, a profit doen't have to be made by someone for them receive a subsidy.
One more thing, Shoots Straight, you have got to be about the dumbest son of a bitch posting on the internet.


Brilliant commentary! Did you come up with that all by yourself? Lets analyze your BS comment and try to make some sense of it..

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You guys wanting cows off PUBLIC land are no different than the fat-assed ATVers wanting every friggin trail open to them year round; or the wolf-huggin nature purists that want not hunting on public grounds; or the log/mine every acre crowd.......

Lets see, I'm not really sure how to answer that, but here goes. I'm not totally against running cattle on my public lands. I'm not sure how keeping cattle off lands is the same as ATV's keeping every trail open. But if your wanting my elk reduced to run more cattle, then yes, get your friggin cattle off my land. Is that hard for you to understand. To complicated maybe. If you belong to the MSGA, then you belong to a group of people that are attacking sportsman on just about every front. Are you?

Cowboy you should of used that analogy in reverse. Lets try something that makes some sense.

Cattle and ATV's what do they have in common? They both spread weeds, and tear the chit out of things. They both pass lots of gas, they both don't pay for the damage they do. My elk try to avoid each of them.

The rest of tirade makes no sense. Try again Einstein!

One more thing, Shoots Straight, you have got to be about the dumbest son of a bitch posting on the internet

After this whole post you've got the ordasity to call me out? Laffin!

You could use some help. Check this out jm

http://youtu.be/nl5gBJGnaXs
 
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