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There are those people who will 'get it' and those that will not. I just 
came across the following and thought that it was an appropriate analogy for 
all users of public land to 'stick together.'  I believe that the BLM and 
Forest Service work to pit one user group against the other with the 
ultimate goal of only allowing the 'elite' (and horse people are not among 
this group) to access the land.

    Mouse Story
    A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see
     the farmer and his wife open a package.
    "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered -
     he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
    Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the
    warning: "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in
    the house!"
    The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and
   said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you,
   but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
   The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a
   mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
   The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry,
   Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be
   assured you are in my prayers."
   The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a
    mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"!
    The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but
   it's no skin off my nose."
   So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and
   dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
    That very night a sound was heard throughout the house
   -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
  The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In
     the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the
    trap had caught.
   The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her
    to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows
    you  treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his
    hatchet  to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
   But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and
   neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them,
   the farmer butchered the pig.
  The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many
   people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to
   provide enough meat for all of them.
   The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the
   wall with great sadness.

  So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem
   and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is
   threatened, we are all at risk.

Lauren
Double 8 Ranch
Cody, WY 


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