Beware all private game ranchers!!! Primarily deer and elk ranchers. This is my first posting.
Our business dreams have all been squashed. For the most part, we have checked ourselves right out of the game ranching industry after the effects of the passage of I-143 in Montana. We have simply been hanging around in “stagnant mode” until finally receiving the decision of the U. S. Supreme Court late last year on the “Takings” issue. Well, they squeaked by and beat us again. The highest court in the land decided not to hear the appeal and went along with the Montana Supreme Court decision of 4 votes to 3. Guess I can conclude, we are now beat into submission. Looks like the only place most likely safe from the ravages of the Freeloaders, Socialists, Communists, Left Wingers and Queer Judges, is Texas. They don’t allow wackos to even think about taking anything from the private game ranching industry down there. They simply run their anti hunter/tree hugging asses out! They must have sent some of those idiots up to Montana to vote. We barely lost the I-143 issue, by a public vote back in November 2000, 51% - 49%. Can you imagine, a state wide thriving agricultural industry was completely snuffed out because a couple of elk in one small private elk herd back in the 90’s, was found positive with CWD somewhere in the state. The state government and environmental wackos used that finding to run all game ranchers out of business and claimed there would be many more CWD cases to follow and that it was destined to ruin and eventually kill all the elk and deer in the state and even threaten domestic livestock and possibly human beings. Meanwhile, "each wild wolf" in the state viciously slaughters then nibbles and chews a few chunks of fresh meat from about 75 wild elk per year. That equates the numbers of slaughtered wild elk in Montana in the 10’s of thousands per year. That is a complete sickening situation. It’s getting worse all the time. Go figure!
Now we are faced with quite a dilemma; we have about 150 head of privately owned Rocky Mountain Elk. They have always been very healthy and CWD free. We cannot “shoot them for a fee” otherwise we go to jail. Even if it’s legal, it is too expensive and cumbersome to jump through all the hoops to move them out of state and they are virtually worthless for any last remaining in-state facilities.
We just want out! We now want to sell the ranch. Anybody want to buy the most gorgeous 4000 acre hunting/fishing ranch in Montana? No wonder the wackos killed the industry: 1. The “Greed Factor”; some wanted to control all the money flow of the hunting industry in the state, and 2. The “Jealousy Factor”; see for yourself why this is obvious. Go here:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/...hotos-_-Sharee
If anyone knows someone with some money who may want our 4000 ac ranch with 6 miles of river, they can start with these two links:
http://www.postlets.com/res/3554684 http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/...hotos-_-Sharee
The property is great for everything fun and exciting that all "normal" people typically enjoy except “shooting the private herd for a fee”. How about a petting zoo. J Although, here is another problem; if we transfer the deed, the breeder license becomes void. It’s highly probable that a buyer of the ranch will place the purchase money in escrow and require us to make the animals disappear. I dread the thought of us being pushed into a corner and having to slaughter all the animals and drag them to a deep open pit for their burial. We can’t allow the animals to keep us from moving on with our lives and a proper type of business investment. We can only process and store a few for meat purposes. Hey PETA and the like, this is partly your doing and it’s on your shoulders!
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