Western state land rights by Angus McIntosh

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I attended the Eagles forum and took notes on the various speakers. This is what I learned about the disputes between ranchers and the government. In any inaccuracies or misspellings is the fault of the note taker. Angus is/was? An employee of the government has been involved with public lands of the West United States.

  • We settled under two land settlement laws. The eastern United States on the east side of the (100 meridian. United States splint into a line from north decoda that drops down south to san Antonio Texas. – 32 inch rain line)
  • East of that line Raperian, English law. and one set of laws and in the West United States had other property management laws because they had less than 32 inches of rain per year.
  • Prior propreation: (origin Mexican law) first come has first rights.
  • The BLM manages public property that becomes a split estate. A split estate is where the ground is managed by the government then a city might add utilities such as power lines and citizens/ranchers may add irrigation ditches and other improvments. For those individuals who contribute to the improvement of the land they get to have use of that land in a sense becoming joint owners.
  • The Oregon protesters are doing what they do to bring the interests of the rancher to the public eye. The resentment of the ranchers is that they do all the investment and work of improving land and then the government disqualifies all their improvements by kicking them off the land and not properly compensating them for their investment and work.
  • The ranchers simply want to be properly and honestly compensated.
  • Futher changes at the ranch is due they are given grazing allotments. And prior preperation water rights. There was a law that these ranchers have right of Highway. Which means a place to drive cattle. Congress banded up to two – 5 miles with for the right of ways. Ranchers were also supposed to have access to easements.
  • Ranchers have made arrangements of this over 100 years ago and branches of state within the families.

Here are some useful links. If you find additional links or documentation in response to this topic please feel free to share it in the comment section of this blog. Thanks.

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-angus-mcintosh-71108655

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltFWfwXcF7A

 

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