RC: Re: BRAND INSPECTION IN CAL. (long)

["Dyane Smith" <sunibey@sisqtel.net>]

Thanks, Lif.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to access the site that Duncan posted,
but I plan to go to the law library Tuesday to see what I can learn.
Hopefully, this ordeal is about over, but now I'm interested.
Dyane

----- Original Message -----
From: Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
To: <Ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 12:01 PM
Subject: RC: BRAND INSPECTION IN CAL. (long)


> Open range laws aren't there to encourage everyone to turn their livestock
> out for the winter - they're not a license for free feed for the public,
> they only define who is liable for what.  Livestock that is turned out on
> open range by someone who doesn't own the land or who isn't leasing from
> the owner (whether it's the government with BLM land or private land) is
> stray livestock - at least that's what it seems to be from my reading of
NM
> livestock law.  NM law and from what I read of what was posted, CA law
too,
> provides for a remedy for stray (estray) livestock.
>
> At 12:32 PM 1/16/00 , Dyane Smith wrote:
> >I'm just not sure that an "open-range" law that encourages people to turn
> >their horses and cows out for the winter is still viable.
>
>
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