"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> In article > ,
> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote:
>snip
>> Around here (Idaho) when you drive down a road (not an interstate
>> highway),
>> you will rumble across what are known as "cattle grids" Strips of metal
>> bars over a ditch in the road. The idea is that cattle feet cannot
>> cross
>> the metal bars. Much of Idaho (in fact, lots of Western states) is
>> unfenced
>> public land. The BLM (Bureau of Land Management) contracts out grazing
>> land
>> to ranchers and the cattle roam. I believe this is also true of sheep.
>> When we first moved here many years ago and went camping, we would often
>> pass sheepherders camps or wake in the morning to hear sheep passing by.
>> The signature sheepherder camp wagon had a rounded top, reminiscent of
>> covered wagons. The BLM still exists, but I haven't been camping in
>> years,
>> so I don't know how all this is handled anymore.
>> Janet
>
> Plenty of cattle guards around here too, but mostly on private
> properties... Very little public land in Texas. Unfortunately!
> --
> Peace! Om
Public land designation around here is always a big political issue, locally
and nationally.
Janet