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FARM BUREAU By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Time To Face Down Rogue Federal Agency
When a bully keeps pushing and overstepping the boundaries of appropriate action,
the solution has to be to respond. Such is the case with one of the Federal Government’s
biggest bullies…the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and that is the response
determined to be the course directed by the American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF)
voting delegates at their annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
“EPA’s regulatory reach continues to metastasize at the expense of our
ability to produce food, fiber and fuel, and EPA often does not recognize the
contributions that farmers and ranchers have made to reduce soil loss and
produce more with less land, water, nutrients and other inputs,” said Bob
Stallman, President of the AFBF. “We need more common sense and less
negativity toward production agriculture in the enforcement of the nation’s
existing environmental statutes.”
Earlier in the 2011 AFBF annual meeting Stallman announced, that the organization
was filing a federal lawsuit to halt the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay pollution regulatory plan.
AFBF said that the agency overreached by setting up a plan for the entire 64,000 squaremile
Chesapeake watershed, usurped state control, relied on faulty data and failed to account
for agriculture’s contributions to improving water quality, and provided insufficient
information and time for the public to check EPA’s actions.
Overreaching is the game plan EPA is constantly pursuing, adopting a “regulate now
and we’ll see if you can sue us back to the parameters of what the law actually says our
authority should be” approach.
Started in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, interestingly using executive authorities,
the EPA has always been a heavy-handed bunch, growing their empire to 18,000 zealous
thugs, exercising their pursuits under the grail of power for the environment. They also
have found ways to employ state agencies to expand their command and control methods,
adopting agreements which suggest that state agencies will have control of environmental
matters in their respective states, but keeping things on a short chain and threatening to
yank authority if there aren’t appropriate amounts of fines and punishments imposed.
Without obtaining the desired objectives of legislation, passed by elected representatives,
the current Administration has let loose the hounds to accomplish the phony solution
to the imagined challenge of Climate Change. EPA continues to prepare their regulatory
control over the regulation of “green house gases” forcing those under their thumbs to comply
to their wishes. The effect of the imposition will be higher energy costs for Americans,
further harm to our economy and zippo improvements for the quality of the air or climate…
both of which seem to be everywhere around the planet and not in the vacuum the so-called
scientists who believe punishing U.S. citizens will achieve.
The entire scheme of the global warming hoax is to make the one country on the planet,
who will knuckle under out of some sense of guilt, do just what their beloved leader and his
black-booted EPA agency goons will tell them to do.
Ideally, the effort of the American Farm Bureau Federation to encourage elected leaders
to stand up and take on the EPA will achieve results, bringing other put-upon interests to
the rally and requiring the constraints of common sense, legislative authority and legitimate
science to have some influence.
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Tent Mountain Ranch, Starr Valley, Nevada. 3435 Deeded acres at the foot of the majestic East Humboldt Range the Northern
extension of the Ruby Mountains. Several perennial Streams flow through the ranch and wildlife are an daily part of the scenery.
The owners run a Guide service as well as a Bed and Breakfast out of the ranch. There are multiple fenced pastures for grazing all
with free water. Improvements are good with a large home approx. 5,000 sq. ft. plus a second modular home. Barn with water, hay
barn, and other storage. Access onto paved road. Price: $4,500,000.
Waddy Creek Ranch: located in a remote Nevada Ranching Valley called Charleston which sits at the foot of the Jarbidge
Wilderness which is part of the Humboldt National Forest. The ranch is bounded on two sides by Forest. There is no power in the
Valley but there is land line phone. Two creeks provide irrigation water for approx. 138 acres of historic meadow. This property has
Quaken Aspen Groves and is quite beautiful. Access is on a County Road. There is a BLM grazing permit attached to the ranch for
71 head. Price: Reduced to $400,000.
Indian Creek Ranch: White Pine County , Nevada. This is a great property for a hunter as it is surrounded by Public lands and has
plentiful Mule Deer, Antelope and Elk. There is a large Spring arising on high ground that could provide pressure for hydro power, or
gravity flow domestic or irrigation water. This is an old historic ranch base and can provide summer pasture for cattle or horses and
includes Approx. 200 acres in three separate parcels. Pinyon Pine and Utah Juniper plus some Cottonwood, willows and Quaken
Aspen. Very Scenic. Approx. 1/2 mile off County Maintained road. Price- $395,000.
Mason Mountain Ranch - Great summer ranch with 3700 deeded acres plus small BLM permit. Located approx. 75 miles North
of Elko. Runs approx. 300 pair for the summer. Approx. 89 acres of meadows irrigated with water stored in Reservoir/fishing hole
which also acts as Red Band Trout hatchery. Home and outbuildings for a good cow camp. Phone but no power. Price: $1,575,000.
Dawley Creek Ranch - located in one of the most beautiful Ranching valleys of the West “Ruby Valley”. Set at the foot of the
Majestic Ruby Mountains with approx. 1100 acres of lush meadows and good private pasture. This ranch has approx. 5300 deeded
acres. Approx. 700 acres are currently being cut for meadow hay. This ranch runs approx. 450 pair plus heifers and bulls year long
and around 30 head of horses. No water fights in this case as the water doesn’t run off the ranch but rather fills a Snow Water lake
called Franklin Lake. This ranch has been a target for Conservation easements. Contingent upon being able to complete a 1031
exchange into another acceptable property. $1,000/acre
Steptoe Valley Farm: Nice Alfalfa and Grass Hay Farm in beautiful country! Approx. 1000 acres with around 700 acres of water
rights. Six wells pump water to 5 center pivots and a field flooded or ready for wheel-line hookup. Nice manufactured home for a
residence. This farm is located within 1/4 mile of the Proposed SWIP corridor which is a utility corridor to transport Electricity being
created from Renewable sources from Idaho to Las Vegas and beyond. In the case of this ranch it is also within the planned water
pipeline corridor planned to send water to Southern Nevada. I would think that these future opportunities add value to this Farm
over a strictly Agriculture venture. $3,000,000.
Elko Co. Spring Sheep Range: This should be a Great Investment property ideal for a 1031 Exchange! Deeded Sheep
Base in Elko Co.: 10,716 deeded acres plus a 29 percent public BLM permit in the mountains just northeast of Elko. Fifty percent
of the mineral rights included. Good summer spring and summer range for sheep or cattle. Annual lease income , plus inexpensive
Ag taxes. Price: $1,393,080.
Z BAR Ranch - Clover Valley South of Wells. Picture perfect ranch at the foot of the mountains with 2,832+ deeded acres of which
over 650 are irrigated. 3 homes ,good outbuildings, haying equipment included for $3,200,000.
Bottari Realty
Paul D. Bottari, Broker 1222 6th St., P.O. Box 368 Wells, NV 89835
Work: 775-752-3040
Home: 775-752-3809 • Fax: 775-752-3021
www.bottarirealty.com • paul@bottarirealty.com
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