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NCBA official has ‘reservations’ about Interior pick

The director of federal lands for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is expressing “reservations” about the nomination of Sally Jewell to be the next Secretary of the Interior.

Speaking with Brownfield at the Cattle Industry Convention in Tampa, Dustin Van Liew says while he likes Jewell’s private sector experience, he does have some concerns with her ties to organizations that advocate restrictions on the use of federal lands for grazing and other uses.

AUDIO: Dustin Van Liew (4:20 MP3)

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  Well, well so the big bad beef industry don’t like the new boss of the BLM. What’s the matter afraid you might be asked to pay the going price for the use of public land??? And you might be told that you can no longer use public land for your grazing because of the damage the cows and sheep cause. You do know they turn it into a wasteland and contaminate the water supply with cow flops in the streams don’t you???
  You might have to actually feed your own cows, for once in your life. I hope she socks it to you creeps.

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  You public lands ranchers afraid that she won’t do everything for you and nothing for any other stake holders? Awwww!

  You do not own the public lands. You graze your cattle almost for free while every other cattle owner has to pay market price. You’re destroying our public lands and supporting the BLM’s program of managing our wild horses – a returned NATIVE species – to extinction so your non-native, invasive cattle can decimate land they were never meant to inhabit – all on the taxpayer’s dime.

  Pardon me it I’m not shedding any tears for you.

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  It certainly would be a good thing if the new DOI secretary actually enforced the laws & regulations that were put in place to protect the wild horses & burros. And it would be great if she changed the attitudes of the people in the BLM and the various politicians in the western states who are bound & determined to exterminate the horses and have already pretty much eliminated any predators that prey on the horses.
  Heres a thought – possibly if the wolves & mountain lions etc had not been poisoned & trapped almost out of existence – there would be no need for roundups.
  I look forward to seeing Secretary Jewell change things in the DOI. Its way past time.

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