Barbara, BLM Permits or rights can or used come with
the ranch you buy or you can buy it from some other rancher. I think new
permits or rights are closed, or so it was back about 15 - 20 years
ago. If you bought a ranch and the BLM rights were sold off to someone
else for their ranch then you were out of luck for BLM grazing rights for
your cattle. Most of the state of Idaho, do not have wild horses, or they
didn't back then. Natural water ways are abundant there, but not safe
for cattle access nor do the BLM folks want cattle pooping in streams and
natural lakes provided by nature. If that happens then we as lower
ranchers have liver parasite problems with the other animals and folks
swimming down streams. Now that is another subject!
Tammy Robinson Trail-Rite Products 18171 Lost Creek
Road Saugus, CA 91390 661/513-9269 office 661/713-3912
cell 661/513-9206 fax www.trail-rite.com
In a message dated 7/19/2008 12:29:37 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I don't have a problem with created water
ponds...they provide wild horses and other animals with needed water, and in
the case here at home, they create great frog habitat. I was always
under the impression that ranchers had to pay BLM for grazing rights.
Was I wrong?
This sounds good but Cattle ran on BLM do a lot of damage and the
ranchers make water ponds, catch pens with large equipment, which
also take roads to get to, blah, blah blah....So the Cattle do have
private owners that make money on the sale of Cattle which is done by having
free feed all summer (or winter in some areas) on BLM land. I know
this first hand. We used to have a cattle ranch in Council, Idaho, and
couldn't wait to move the stock up to the BLM lands with our BLM grazing
rights permit....which is funny, that can be sold too!
So this just gets deeper as a subject.....
Tammy Robinson Trail-Rite Products 18171 Lost Creek
Road Saugus, CA 91390 661/513-9269 office 661/713-3912
cell 661/513-9206 fax www.trail-rite.com
In a message dated 7/18/2008 7:59:34 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
One good thing that BLM
allows is controlled grazing, because such use keeps invasive brush and
weeds to a
minimum.
