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Dear Senator Enzi, August 11, 2011
Regarding: Granite Mountain Open (GMO) Permittees 1993 interim agreement with BLM.
Thank you for continuing to encourage federal employees to stop their inequitable, obstructionist and quite possibly illegal activities against your Wyoming constituents.
For the record, let me restate my stand: Due to BLM’s failure to perform their part of the “1993 interim agreement” with Granite Mountain Open Allotment Permittees, general law stays my right to consider said agreement as null and void. In its place, I will honor “Grazing Permit” with its terms and conditions as pre-dates “1993 interim agreement. “
GMO Permittees have stated in writing their intent to return to pre-1993 interim agreement. Please note, said notices have remained un-challenged by federal. Permittees construe this as federal’s recognition of Permittees “Grazing Permit” as the true and original agreement which honors Permittees legal rights to proceed as before-mentioned.
Let it be known, that Permittees have been exceptionally careful to abide by every old law and new regulation set forth by BLM. Permittees do not have any knowledge of any law they may have broken, nor do they have intent to knowingly break any law. Therefore in consideration of these truths, Permittees ask in advance that County Sheriff and County and State Government be alert and ready to protect us from any advance of new or un-reasonable interpretation of regulations BLM might create to impound, impede or stop Permittees from exercising their private property right to graze cattle.
I chose to directly communicate with DOI Secretary Ken Salazar as: A courtesy notice to federal; document my right to terminate 1993 interim agreement; return to pre-1993 Grazing Permit, and request he exercise his authority by “formally” terminating said agreement. Secretary Salazar chose not to return this courtesy. He instead passed it off to his subordinate, BLM Director Bob Abbey, who wrote, “Ongoing allotment monitoring has indicated that many of the observations identified in the 1992 evaluation continue to exist today.” Wow! Forgive me, but I’m compelled to state, “What a breathtakingly stupid comment! Observers are obviously blind, for they failed to see King Kong (feral horses) in the middle of the allotment!”
In refusal of redundancy, I won’t go over the excess feral horse problem…again; for everyone knows BLM protection of these horses is the real cause of said problems.
Senator Enzi, it is affirmatively evident federal wanted our allotment to grow their feral horse herds. It’s an unfortunate commentary on our government, that instead of placing an honest bid for our forage
(Private property), they devised a plan to steal it.
Although GMO Permittees know we are working within the law as pertains to what constitutes grounds for an agreement termination, we respectfully request a formal blessing…so to speak. Therefore Senator Enzi, here’s what I’d like for you to do: Please solicit your delegation to exercise their congressional authority to “formally” terminate the 1993 interim agreement. You know the steps (Maybe a Federal Judge?) that should be taken to actualize this.
I hope to see you at the Wyoming State Fair BBQ Wed, August 17th…But only to say “Howdy,” and not to discuss business. We’ll do that at your scheduling, and at any of your offices.
Thank you for addressing this quickly.
Sincerely,
Charles W. Sylvester, Jr.
Cc: Wyoming delegation, interested parties, GMO Permittees, Dept. of Justice
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