Tornado Alley (PROG)

[mr40]

His grandfather settled on that land in 1877, before the BLM even existed, it was not created until 1946.
Then all of a sudden BLM comes knocking and says now you have to start paying us to graze your cattle.

Clark Co. documents show the 160 acre ranch was purchased by his parents in 1948. That purchase included the water rights. They own that land!

We bought 7 acres to build a home and divided it into 3 lots. We had to put in a bridge with 6 ft. diameter culverts due to a creek on the front edge of the property. We paid for and put in a road with a cul de sac with access to all 3 lots. We built our home and then put the 2 lots up for sale. All of a sudden the Fish and Wildlife agency comes along and gets the 2 adjacent lots rezoned "Conservation" and we could not sell them.
The only access to those lands was through our private property so nobody could use them for any purpose. The land was mostly scrub trees and weeds. There were no birds except for crows and no other animals using it other than the occasional skunks and raccoons.

Somehow a neighbor who had connections was pissed that we had built on his snowmobiling playground and his signature was on the re-zoning request! He would run his snowmobile up and down his lot line for hours just too bug us!
No problem, we built a tennis court and invited everyone to come play so he could hear the bong bong of tennis balls all summer!