Originally Posted by Sycamore
Kent

how about all the chaining? who was doing that?

I haven't read the book you reference, but I believe the feds paid for a lot of infrastructure.

a lot of this real desert country didn't get real infrastructure until plastic pipe was invented.

Sycamore


Open range stopped in 1936. Fencing... rotation was the first step in range betterment. Dirt tanks and road development... nothing cheap about any of it. Paid for by the ranchers over generations and much of the issue of Bundy's refusal to be moved off.

Kent