Larger Voice on Land Transfer

IlliniFIre · Aug 19, 2016

http://www.fieldandstream.com/artic...-devastate-hunting-and-fishing?src=SOC&dom=fb

This came across my Facebook feed and I figured that you folks would like to see that Field and Stream and Outdoor life have cast their lot in the land transfer issue. I hope that it is going to all their readership and will help the cause. Although I made the mistake of reading the comments on Facebook and there are many who are throwing out the Constitutional arguement.

Nameless Range · Aug 19, 2016

Good share. Hal Herring is a heck of a writer.

Randy's quote, “For me, America without public lands is no longer America", really sums it up for me.

Ben Lamb · Aug 19, 2016

Outdoor Life & Field & Stream have been leading advocates against transfer. Both of their editorial staff gets it.

Hal Herring, Bob Marshall, Andrew Mackean & others deserve our collective support. Buy a subscription and leave comments on their properties. Western Hunter has been great on this issue as well.

1_pointer · Aug 22, 2016

Ben Lamb said:
Outdoor Life & Field & Stream have been leading advocates against transfer. Both of their editorial staff gets it.

Hal Herring, Bob Marshall, Andrew Mackean & others deserve our collective support. Buy a subscription and leave comments on their properties. Western Hunter has been great on this issue as well.

I agree that those authors, especially considering the main audience of that magazine, deserve our support. I think you could throw Sports Afield in with those, but at a "quieter" level. IMO, SA's editor, Diana Rupp, has done a great job with that mag and is on the right side of the transfer issue and gets that portrayed well enough in the magazine. Giving Shane Mahoney dedicated column space in each issue is a great way to get some of hunting's more important issue in front of people.

MTBirdhunter · Aug 24, 2016

Interesting article on Forbes mag., by Frank Minter, BLM trying to take 140 square miles of the Red river between Oklahoma and Texas, anyone down in these parts know more about this? If it is so, it is very scary situation. Having family and friends in agriculture, how could they TAKE land from folks that have been on this land for generations?

Irrelevant · Aug 24, 2016

MTBirdhunter said:
Interesting article on Forbes mag., by Frank Minter, BLM trying to take 140 square miles of the Red river between Oklahoma and Texas, anyone down in these parts know more about this? If it is so, it is very scary situation. Having family and friends in agriculture, how could they TAKE land from folks that have been on this land for generations?

First, it's an opinion piece. http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankmi...-miles-of-private-land-in-texas/#695a48c63442

Second, it doesn't actually talk about the issue or the sides at all, but spends the bulk of the "article" talking about a John Wayne movie.

Third, for slightly more incite see: http://www.npr.org/2016/06/08/48120...deral-officials-dispute-red-rivers-boundaries.

Fixing property boundaries is pretty standard, I have not seen any that actually move as a river moves. Though often adjacent owners agree to manage it that way.

Irrelevant · Aug 24, 2016

A slightly older article has a lot more info on the Red River land dispute.

It's not a federal land grab, it's a boundary dispute between two owners, one of which is the BLM, and it's not new issue, it's been in dispute for many many years, basically since the original Louisiana Purchase. There are several existing court decisions that complicate the issue.

https://www.texastribune.org/2014/04/28/blurred-lines-texas-blm-spat-has-complicated-histo/

MTBirdhunter · Aug 24, 2016

neffa3 said:
A slightly older article has a lot more info on the Red River land dispute.

It's not a federal land grab, it's a boundary dispute between two owners, one of which is the BLM, and it's not new issue, it's been in dispute for many many years, basically since the original Louisiana Purchase. There are several existing court decisions that complicate the issue.

https://www.texastribune.org/2014/04/28/blurred-lines-texas-blm-spat-has-complicated-histo/

Thanks for those links, I took the time to read them, I knew what I read was on opinion page, this still is very concerning to me, thanks.

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