Rancher: 'I didn't know anything' about Bundy entering property, destroying fence

[tencats]

Tim Puckett and his crew make repairs to a public fence that was cut by militants to give access for his livestock to refuge land two days ago. Puckett was unaware of their plan and is repairing the fence. Thomas Boyd/Staff

BURNS — Tim Puckett, the rancher whose cattle graze private rangeland adjoining the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said he didn't give Ammon Bundy and his band of armed militants permission to enter the ranch Monday afternoon and destroy a publicly owned fence.

In fact, Puckett said Tuesday that he has never spoken to Bundy, the leader of a militant group that has occupied the refuge headquarters compound since Jan. 2. The militants are protesting the federal government's land-use policies, advocating for public property to be turned over to local ranchers and loggers.


"I am very upset," Puckett said. His ranch hands have already repaired the fence. "They're not coming onto my place no more," he said of the militants. "If they do, I'm gonna have to do something about it. I don't want them going across my ground."

He said he has no beef with the Bureau of Land Management.

"I work with BLM," Puckett said. "I have no problem with them." He said government officials told him of their plans to erect the fence, which he said "has not nor will it affect my cattle operation."

"I am a good steward of the land. ... In no way do I feel that I am entitled to the refuge for grazing," he said.

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/rancher_i_didnt_know_anything.html

[randome]

1. Maybe this is why the Bundy Bunch want to hold a town hall meeting.

They may be getting ready to cut their losses.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[moondust]

2. Mr. Puckett is owed

some apologies as well as compensation for the time and materials required to repair the damage the vandals did to the fence. And maybe some personal protection if he wants it.

[MH1]

22. Ranchers always have enough fences to repair, without vandals giving them more to do.

You are right, Puckett is owed for damages done by these turds.

[Jim Beard]

29. I have a fence like that and it is difficult to get it pulled back tight in a uniform manner.

The wire comes in 1/4 mile spools and if the break is about 1/4 the LENGTH of that length, the posts on the short side will tighten and those post will lean while the rest 3/4 will not be as tight.

Make them redo the whole 1/4 mile.

[subject]

45. been there

and it's real hard work, esp. in the winter. And when they're done, they better bring him a nice bottle for not pressing charges.

[roguevalley]

3. Mr. Puckett could be my uncle Owen. We come from Eastern Oregon with a tradition of ranching

these are great hard working people. I hate this for them. I hate it for my state. What a grandpa looking old guy just trying to live his life.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

15. Yeah, was going to say he reminds me of my dad.

[Marty McGraw]

21. Ha!

I have Puckett's in my family tree with origins more around Cove and La Grande OR. Have to send this one on to Mah and see if it sparks any recognition. Family lines on both sides come from around that corner of the state.

Love it up there whenever I go visit and the people are very genuine but being so detached from elsewhere I hope their moral integrity have been spared from the Fox onslaught over all these years.

[beergood]

37. you have an uncle named Owen,

and a rogue call-sign. is that you Luke?

[Botany]

40. My late grand dad Bob W was from southern Oregon had an orchard and some livestock ....

.... I hate to think what he had his neighbors would do if somebody cut their fence
so that their sheep and or cattle would go get out.

Besides charging Bundy and his gang w/the laws they broke they need to bill them
for time and materials to fix the fence ..... I saw $75.00 per man per hour.

[central scrutinizer]

4. I love this guy! Give the yee-mams from the cowliphate hell!

I bet he will wear leather gloves when he repairs his fence, unlike Bundy. Bundy's hands looked awfully clean and soft. Don't think he has done much actual work in his life.

[joeybee12]

5. I believe most ranchers are like Mr. Puckett

Not deadbeat asshats like the Bundys

[elmac]

18. I agree

the only ones who hate "big gobbment" are too lazy too do the work or have a fox news lobotomy.

[blackspade]

24. Or they're thieves.

[bhikkhu]

28. Most of the ones I know are

and I have a lot of respect for them. A "good steward of the land" is really what you have to be to manage a successful ranch, and most of them are pretty well educated on environmental issues.

[cynzke]

33. It Sounds like the BLM and the locals...

Have this area fairly well managed and don't want or need outside arrogant agitators like the Bundy Bunch to interfere. Go home and fuck up your own state Bundy. Oregon doesn't want you.

[pinboy3niner]

41. How The Bundy Standoff Could Screw Over Ranchers

by Alex Zielinski & Alan Pyke Jan 11, 2016 9:31 am

...

Local residents are tired of the ongoing game of tug-of-war over the land now referred to as the Harney Basin. This latest dispute has rekindled the tensions over land use that have marked the region ever since cattle barons first settled on Paiute Indian soil in the mid-1800s.

Just a few years ago, however, stakeholders including ranchers, environmentalists, and federal agents unveiled an agreed-upon conservation plan for the wildlife refuge sitting in the heart of the basin. It had taken three years to negotiate, but the result — which took into consideration ranchers’ livelihoods, ecological concerns, and local economic sustainability — became a beacon of hope in the region, as well as in other rural communities wrought with similar conflict.

Now, Ammon Bundy’s headline-grabbing occupation is imperiling that accord.

A Short History of Deep-Seated Conflict

...

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/11/3737719/rancher-history-oregon/

[thereismore]

6. Now that's a man. nt

[dorkzilla]

7. Poor guy. nt

[Roy Rolling]

8. Of course

Most people are decent, sharing people. Only greedy losers feel entitled to other people's property.

Ironic that the "self-made and rugged individuals" who are trespassing have such a deep-seated sense of entitlement.

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. Yep...and the REAL rugged individual wants those idiots to get lost.

"I am a good steward of the land. ... In no way do I feel that I am entitled to the refuge for grazing," he said.

[Jim Beard]

30. I find the same attitude with a lot of people who go broke at a business and they blame the

government. The ironic thing is there are other businesses like then that are doing good.

I remember on 60 minutes when businesses feared Mike Wallace because he would expose their shoddy business practices....then, business started suing and it was no longer economical to attack business. They then started finding fault with the US budget and they haven't let up since and no lawsuits.

[eggplant]

9. "He said he has no beef with the Bureau of Land Management"

Get it? Hee hee.

[progressoid]

12. Heh heh heh.

Beef.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. "No Beef" Yeah, I herd ya.

An udderly terrible joke.

[klook]

17. He is on the horns of a dilemma

or perhaps a Holstein.

[cui bono]

25. No beef???

[Leith]

11. Nevada Ranchers Didn't Support the Bundys, Either

They said that they understood what he was doing, but that they could not support it.

[Marty McGraw]

14. K & R

('-')

[Angry Dragon]

16. The Bundies are terrorists

They take over a Federal building with guns, that makes them terroists

[cui bono]

26. And insurgents.

[elmac]

19. I would gladly volunteer

to repair his fence for him if I lived nearby, he is a good, honest man. Hope the for profit Buddy's leave him alone. They are just doing this so they can make $$$$ going around the country speaking to idiots that will pay for it.

[Jim Beard]

31. Paid by the Kock brothers. Really, they want free mineral deposits.

[moondust]

32. And maybe a TV show!

Like these idiots:

[lastone]

20. Unbelievable

These people are so fucking stupid it must be physically painful to think.

I just heard on interview on local (OR) public radio on how in the 80's there were aggressive blm employees but NOW the whole county is a model of public and private interests working together basically the model of compromise. It just seems to me that these fools live in another century and want to go back to where you can grab your wife by the hair and drag you into the bedroom or punch your kid in the face because he disrespected you suck these Niagara Falls I am so sick of these f****** fools it makes you want to go down there and laugh in their faces.

[blackspade]

23. Sounds like the Bundy teahadists need to reinburse this gentleman.

What a bunch of fucking idiots.
And the Feds still sit and do nothing.

[cheapdate]

27. I like this man.

[Helen Borg]

38. Me too!

[L. Coyote]

34. If he charges them for trespassing, Harney County has to serve the warrants. Not federal land!

[center]This fits this story particularly well, these free range nuts are all beef and no cows.



What's next, the right to steal cows if you don't already have a herd for your free ranch? Or, does the government have to buy them for you?

[StandingInLeftField]

36. I think a better hashtag for this photo would be

#FREERANGECHICKENS

[Babel_17]

35. Nice, mature, fellow it seems

And not an entitled buffoon who's racking up the offenses.

[Enthusiast]

39. The Bundys might entertain the possibility that they could be wrong.

Dummies.

[alfredo]

42. They have God on their side so they can't be wrong.

[L. Coyote]

43. Yes, there's always room at the bottom of the long list of others who thought that, it seems.

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Thought that and were wrong. All too often when people think that, you have two sides at war and both of them think in the face of 50/50 odds they are the wrong side and on the faith there is a God in the first place and having him on your side makes you right. How do minds accomplish such magical thinking? Oh yeah, Fox News.

[alfredo]

44. The loser's god was the false god.