Feds fence off water supply for cattle grazing on county land, so county commissioners
order sheriff to cut the fence so cattle can drink.
""We are reacting to the infringement of the U.S.
Forest Service on the water rights of our land-allotment owners," Otero
County Commissioner Tommie Herrell told Reuters. "People have been
grazing there since 1956.""
This will go to court.
"But a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said the
fence has also been there for decades, protecting a delicate ecosystem
surrounding a natural spring as well as an endangered species of mouse
from being trampled by cattle."
Insane.
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