Funny Sign

[Canoe]

I'm not sure if this has been posted here or not, but it is a good one.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Bedke is a paranoid fellow..... He keeps being paranoid he will get caught breaking the law....

OAKLEY —On the frontlines of environmental issues, it’s often a case of one person’s word against another’s.

And many times, those words are angry ones.

Such is the situation in the most recent cattle-grazing battle over Trout Creek, in the southern Sawtooth National Forest.

Environmentalist Jon Marvel, executive director of Western Watersheds Project, said that on Sept. 27 he saw about 150 cattle near the riparian area along Trout Creek, including a dying animal in the creek, and notified the Sawtooth National Forest office on Monday. Marvel said it looked like the animals had been along the creek for weeks.

Rancher Bud Bedke, whose cattle were near Trout Creek at the end of last month, admits about 700 of his animals got into the restricted grazing area, but said they were there for only three days and had gotten into the area because an environmentalist opened the gate to the creek in an effort to set him up.

“You bet ... it was sabotage,” Bedke said. “If it wasn’t (Marvel), it was somebody like him.”

In the middle is the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees grazing in the Sawtooth National Forest. Last week, Doug Gochnour, the acting forest supervisor, Scott Nannenga, a district ranger, and Lucas Phillips, a rangeland management specialist, met Bedke at Trout Creek to conduct an informal investigation.

Although there was clear evidence that cows had been near the creek — trampled shrubs, cow patties, chomped grass — the Forest Service team said the area was in acceptable condition.

“From a resource standpoint,” Phillips said, “there is not an issue here.”

A land-use violation had taken place, Nannenga said, but because Bedke likely did not move the animals into the creek area on purpose, and because he removed the animals as soon as he became aware they were there, no serious actions were likely to be taken by the Forest Service.

Nannenga said it was unlikely someone left the gate open on purpose and urged Bedke to use a chain and lock on gates in the future.

That response makes Marvel livid.

“The level of degradation there was extreme,” he said. “It’s obvious the cattle had been in there for weeks.”

 

[wilecoyote76]

Pretty blunt message - I like it!

I'm guessing that nice new sign will be filled with bullet holes pretty soon though.

 

[Ithaca 37]

Yup, Bud Bedke is a real comedian. Remember the story about how he refused to let anyone rescue the dying bulls on his land? Read this!!!

Rescuers were forced to stand by for three days as the elk slowly died because a rancher wouldn't allow them on his property.

http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=122610

 

[1_pointer]

I got an email with that pic as well. I thought putting his name on the sign was a nice/ballsy touch. I'd love to have an elk tag for the areas near any of his land in ID, NV, or UT. Some big bulls in that country.

 

[Oak]

I wonder which sportsman is welcome?