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<blockquote data-quote="PLR" data-source="post: 91034" data-attributes="member: 540"><p>Well recently an incident happend that could affect me/my cattle.</p><p></p><p>For the last 20 years or so one of our neighbors has run cattle on the "Open Range" in my area(all privately owned by "white men" within the bounds of the Colville Tribal Reservation. Long ago he got a copy of the range laws governing the running of cattle. It said you had to live in the range where you wanted to turn cows out and have lived there for more than 3 years. It also said that if a landowner did not want the cattle on their property they had to fence them out.(which doesnt apply if you are running cows on state and federal lands, only on private lands) When we moved into the area (about 9 years ago) we aquired a copy of these same laws(our copy has been lost to time). So for the last three years we have been turning our cows out on april 1st and bringing them home on Nov 1st. My cows dont go very far(a mile or less) from our property because the only real watersource is a stocktank down by our barn that is kept full. I share the area with 2 other neighbors. all in all it is about one square mile of good grass shared by 30-40 cows. Then one of my neighbors bulls got out of our range and into a pasture leased by another rancher. He showed up at my house demanding that someone come get the bull or they would be buying calves.(the bull was a bradford in with his pure angus cows). I told him to contact the owner about the bull and gave them their phone number. This happend at about 7:30 pm. The next day he shows up with a Range Rider from the tribe to seize the bull on private property( here the tribe has no jurisdiction on privately owned land or Fee Property). The bull was taken and the owner served with a ticket(the ticket was their first clue that something was wrong, He never called). the terms regarding the return of his bull were these....He had to pay $210 in fines and either butcher the bull on site or take him to a secure location and butcher him within 24 hours with an inspection of the hide after the butchering. Now we dont know what sparked all this but the next day the range rider tried to recruite a friend of the bull's owner to help him confinscate more cows off of our range(namely My Cows and the other 2 ranchers cows). After makeing over 100 calls to every human in the goverment that might know the laws we discovered that no one knows what the laws are and they are not written down. So the other rancher contacted every law enforcement unit all the way up to the FBI. and Each said that the Tribes Range Rider had no authority to take the bull off private property. Now we are trying to resolve this issue and still find the range laws....</p><p></p><p>Shelby</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PLR, post: 91034, member: 540"] Well recently an incident happend that could affect me/my cattle. For the last 20 years or so one of our neighbors has run cattle on the "Open Range" in my area(all privately owned by "white men" within the bounds of the Colville Tribal Reservation. Long ago he got a copy of the range laws governing the running of cattle. It said you had to live in the range where you wanted to turn cows out and have lived there for more than 3 years. It also said that if a landowner did not want the cattle on their property they had to fence them out.(which doesnt apply if you are running cows on state and federal lands, only on private lands) When we moved into the area (about 9 years ago) we aquired a copy of these same laws(our copy has been lost to time). So for the last three years we have been turning our cows out on april 1st and bringing them home on Nov 1st. My cows dont go very far(a mile or less) from our property because the only real watersource is a stocktank down by our barn that is kept full. I share the area with 2 other neighbors. all in all it is about one square mile of good grass shared by 30-40 cows. Then one of my neighbors bulls got out of our range and into a pasture leased by another rancher. He showed up at my house demanding that someone come get the bull or they would be buying calves.(the bull was a bradford in with his pure angus cows). I told him to contact the owner about the bull and gave them their phone number. This happend at about 7:30 pm. The next day he shows up with a Range Rider from the tribe to seize the bull on private property( here the tribe has no jurisdiction on privately owned land or Fee Property). The bull was taken and the owner served with a ticket(the ticket was their first clue that something was wrong, He never called). the terms regarding the return of his bull were these....He had to pay $210 in fines and either butcher the bull on site or take him to a secure location and butcher him within 24 hours with an inspection of the hide after the butchering. Now we dont know what sparked all this but the next day the range rider tried to recruite a friend of the bull's owner to help him confinscate more cows off of our range(namely My Cows and the other 2 ranchers cows). After makeing over 100 calls to every human in the goverment that might know the laws we discovered that no one knows what the laws are and they are not written down. So the other rancher contacted every law enforcement unit all the way up to the FBI. and Each said that the Tribes Range Rider had no authority to take the bull off private property. Now we are trying to resolve this issue and still find the range laws.... Shelby [/QUOTE]
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