Storm Over Rangelands / Private Rights in Federal Lands / A Project of the National Federal Lands Conference (SIGNED TO JIM FAULKNER)

Hage, Wayne

ISBN 10: 0939571064 / ISBN 13: 9780939571062

Published by Free Enterprise Press / Distributed by Merrill Press, Bellevue, Washington, 1989

About this Item

"First Edition" stated. No mention of second edition. NO dust jacket. Author Hage has hand-written a lengthy inscription to fellow property-rights advocate Jim Faulkner to the otherwise blank FFE. Wayne Hage demonstrates and documents that private owners -- ranchers, miners, and others -- have established private property rights through possession and proper filings administered under state law to much of the Western land which those far away in the east identify as "public lands," and which the federal government does not own because it has never purchased them with the permission of the appropriate state legislature, as required under the federal Constitution. What is widely misunderstood in other locales is the way "split title" or "split estate" works in the arid west, where one party can own the water and grazing rights to a sizable acreage, while another party may file on and thus own the mining rights to the same land, which land will often still remain "public" in the sense that these owners of limited rights must still allow free access to hunters, etc. Hage was a rancher and historian of these topics, who fought the taking of his grazing rights by arrogant federal bureaucrats near Tonopah, Nevada, through the courts. After his death, his daughters won those lawsuits, vindicating his arguments & analysis, though of course the federal government never runs out of funds, or of other courts to which it can and will appeal any adverse ruling, world without end. (Albeit the federal lawyers will, of course, face the slight inconvenience of spending the rest of eternity in hell.) 267 pp. including index. Reduced from $320.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Storm Over Rangelands / Private Rights in Federal Lands / A Project of the National Federal Lands Conference (SIGNED TO JIM FAULKNER)
• Publisher: Free Enterprise Press / Distributed by Merrill Press, Bellevue, Washington
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0939571064
• ISBN 13: 9780939571062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Conspiracies
  • The Real West
  • The Freedom Bookshelf