Can anyone out there in Utah spell N-E-P-O-T-I-S-M? a form of C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N?
"The deals [to buy out grazing rights] seemed to suit all concerned, until a group of local officials decided that they were bad for the local economy and a threat to the ancestral tradition of living off the land. The group set out to end this latest, uncharacteristically civil chapter in the fraught history of cattlemen, environmentalists and dueling visions of the West's future."
So let me get this straight, Michael E. Noel, a Republican state representative from southern Utah, is upset that enviornmentalists are buying out ranchers and then not grazing cattle. so he got ranchers to challange the deals.
just so happens "Trevor Stewart, one of the ranchers seeking the Clark Bench allotment, is Mr. Noel's son-in-law. Mr. Noel said he was able to get $50,000 from the state to support Kane County when it joined Mr. Stewart's suit.
So State Rep. Noel got $50,000 in state dollars to buy grazing permits for his son in law?
A Strategy to Restore Western Grasslands Meets With Local Resistance - New York Times: "Michael E. Noel, a former Bureau of Land Management employee who now is a Republican state representative from southern Utah, "