Folks if you don’t know Angus McIntosh you need to. His wisdom and knowledge on your rights as land owners is phenomenal. Why? Because he knows how the federal government and their environmental cohorts play the game. He worked for the Forest Service Agency for years and was told to “ get the landowners signature” didn’t matter if the mission was right or wrong just get their John Henry. He quit and got his PhD so he could help us. When I have a question on land or water issues he’s the first one I call. Last night a friend shared his plight here in Oklahoma with some federal bully’s he reached out for help and I sent him straight to Angus. Angus has been an expert witness and thoroughly knows our rights and he is so humble to share. So proud to call this wonderful guy my good friend! Thank you Angus! Andrea Hutchison
Angus McIntosh I’m a retired PhD, USDA Rangeland Management Specialist. When I worked for the USFS I was told by higher level officials that ranchers owned their allotments, but that internal Forest Service policy was to deny ranchers property rights. The reason for the policy of property rights denial was “because we have jobs to protect” if ranchers knew they had rights the agency could not force them to capitulate to all the ranch destroying Forest Service demands. I asked “if ranchers own their allotments, how can we make them do anything?” The answer was “you get them to sign something” (a permit/cooperative agreement, MOU, annual operating plan, etc) “THEN you got them!” Whenever the BLM or USFS takes an allotment owner to court it’s not for “trespassing on government property” (because the fact is ranchers own their allotments thus legally CANT trespass on their allotment). When taken to court it’s almost always for “violation of the terms and conditions of the permit”. Fortunately Section 6(i) of the National Forests Management Act says “any revision in present or future permits, contracts and other instruments shall be subject to valid existing rights.” Also, the Federal Land Policy Management Act, Title VII says “All actions by the Secretary concerned under this Act Shall be subject to valid existing rights”. Unfortunately, most ranchers have no idea what their valid existing rights are. Most bureaucrats that work for BLM and USFS are just as ignorant of ranchers property rights as the allotment owners themselves. However, most higher level bureaucrats know the truth but simply choose to lie about allotment owners rights. Those bureaucrats make up what is called the ”deep state”. They have combined in secret and have sworn to hide the truth in order to elevate their positions of power and deceive the people about the split estate nature of western Range Allotments.
...Then in 1928 was elected Vice President of the United States!🇺🇸Many Native Allotment Owners thrived in the years of the Great Depression. Raised within a horse culture they were excellent stockmen and resource managers. So what happened? In 1933 the Democrats seized power. Charles Curtis, champion of both Native and non-Native grazing allotment owners was no longer there to protect their property rights. In 1934 borderline communism socialism came to power. Democrats imposed heavy handed regulation on non-Native Grazing Allotment Owners and actually stripped Indian Allotment Owners of their individual allotments! Democrats took private property rights from Native/Indians and put their property into a collective communist fiasco under the “Indian Reorganization Act”. ...