re: BLM now taking land from TX rancher....but he owns his land - UPDATED

Merica! frick no

Give Israel back to the Palestinians

Is it federal land? Kick his arse off unless he pays up

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Debatable JB.

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Is it federal land?

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read the OP, clown.

With a title deed in his hands it is not federal lands you dumbass. Texas has gladly received property taxes from his family for decades and Oklahoma has never raised a peep about it and I think they still recognize the border between it and Texas as being valid in fact. This is another act of the BLM now led by Dirty Harrys little office bitch doing what Harry wants done by him.

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over a totally unsubstantiated blog post.

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check out page 5 of the thread, there are more articles.....

This actually seems more of a dispute between two states and application of pretty standard accretion v. avulsion...pretty standard among states that accretion belongs to the owner of the bank that is accreting and the landowner losing land to erosion simply loses it while avulsion doesn't change ownership.

Simply if Henderson has a deed from TX for TX lands he can't own lands that are in OK. So once the border dispute is finalized between TX and OK then a portion of what he thought were his TX lands may be OK lands to which he does not have a deed. Then it appears that those lands in OK are owned or claimed by the BLM - fed lands. Henderson has no beef with the BLM if the land ends up in OK, they didn't take it from him...the resolution of the state border dispute will be the culprit.

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I think the BLM is claiming ownership of any lands that are deemed to be in OK along a 116 mile stretch of the river so it's likely a portion of the Henderson ranch along the river which may be 90k....116 sq miles = just over 5MM acres.

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But Henderson has been paying property taxes on those lands to Texas. Had he not paid his property taxes on those lands, then Texas would have foreclosed (well, the county, actually, right?), and he would have lost his land. Either way, he appears to be losing his land. So, he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, right?

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One of these days, in their overreaching landgrab, the feds are going to piss off the wrong rancher, and it won't end well for anyone.

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I know a number of people on the RR that this will affect. All the local politicians and Rick Perry are supporting them. However, if the BLM tries to confiscate their land it will get real real ugly. One in particular has 107 acres the BLM is targeting which he has the deed to and pays taxes.