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Does anyone watch Country Bucks?
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:11 am
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:11 am
Where exactly is the Busbice Ranch in Louisiana?
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:15 am to Walt OReilly
right across the street from where i will be in about 5 hours
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:16 am to Walt OReilly
No thanks. Show is garbage
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:17 am to KingRanch
Really? I thought it was somewhere in north la
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:19 am to PapaPogey
I wish they gave Ryans wife mode airtime
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:20 am to Walt OReilly
quote:
Where exactly is the Busbice Ranch in Louisiana?
Highway 127 between Sikes and Olla. Mostly in Winn Parish but I think some of it is in Caldwell and LaSalle.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:20 am to tiddlesmcdiddles
quote:
its in Olla, La
Correct
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:21 am to Walt OReilly
it is…
its about 45 mi north east of Alexandria. we lease 3,500 acres from them
its about 45 mi north east of Alexandria. we lease 3,500 acres from them
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:21 am to tiddlesmcdiddles
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Olla, La
slightly North of Alexandria
The guy lives in the BR area, and I think the business is based in New Roads.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:22 am to TigerDeacon
the camp is off hwy 124
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:22 am to tiddlesmcdiddles
quote:
Olla, La
Yep - high fence, you pay a lot of money to kill something out there....
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:23 am to tiddlesmcdiddles
We leased land from them several years back across the street from the "compound". High fence for days. I think they trapped all of the good deer in there too, never killed anything worth a damn.
As for the show, i think they try a little too hard. Good people though.
As for the show, i think they try a little too hard. Good people though.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:23 am to Walt OReilly
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Dispute in Winn Parish over 55,000-acre hunting lodge reads like a Grisham novel with cast of Mike Foster, Dick Cheney and imprisoned former Winn sheriff Bodie Little
January 15, 2013 by tomaswell
A wrongful arrest lawsuit filed in 8th Judicial District Court in Winnfield names as defendants a former Louisiana Wildlife Commission chairman and a Department of Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries agent but the litigation is only the latest in an ongoing dispute whose roots go far deeper into the lush pine forests of Winn, Caldwell and LaSalle parishes.
Wyndel Earl Gough (pronounced “Goff”) and Gary L. Hatten filed the lawsuit on Jan. 10, naming William “Bill” Busbice of Broussard, former chairman of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission during the administration of former Gov. Mike Foster, as one of the defendants.
Also named were Terry Carr, identified as an overseer or manager of Busbice’s Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) land, and wildlife agent Rusty Perry after Gough and Hatten were arrested by Perry in December of 2010 for illegally hunting deer on DMAP land without Busbice’s permission.
It was not until April of 2012, however, that a bill of information was issued by the district attorney charging the two with one count each. On Oct. 24, those charges were formally dismissed by the district attorney’s office.
Both Gough and Hatten deny ever having hunted on DMAP property.
Busbice began purchasing some 55,000 acres in the three parishes, mostly in Winn, after Louisiana-Pacific shut down its operations at Urania in 2002. Louisiana-Pacific initially sold the forest land to Barrs & Glawson Investments of Atlanta, GA, to Roy O. Martin Lumber Co. and to Martin-Urania Corp. for $74 million. Barrs & Glawson re-sold tracts totaling 50,383 acres in Winn, 6,068 acres in LaSalle and 4,800 in Caldwell to Six-C Properties, headed by Busbice.
Since purchasing the land, Busbice has erected eight-foot fencing around the property and constructed a hunting lodge on the land that caters to high rollers who don’t mind ponying up a few thousand dollars for the privilege to hunt deer.
Six-C subsequently donated 1,500 acres of the land to Make A Wish Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to granting wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Additional property owners in the area, including other members of the Gough family, claim that Busbice’s fencing in 55,000 acres in the three parishes, mostly in Winn, has deprived them of their hunting rights.
One of those, Michael Atkins, sued Busbice and his company, Six-C Properties, after Busbice erected a fence completely surrounding 10 acres of land owned by Atkins. His lawsuit, which he won at the trial court level but which was overturned in part on appeal, contended that the fence not only prevented him from hunting but also blocked access to his property.
The latest lawsuit, however, goes back more than a decade and involves principals other than Busbice and the two plaintiffs.
Names that have surfaced in what has become a conspiracy-laden story include imprisoned former Winn Parish Tax Assessor A.D. “Bodie” Little, former Gov. Mike Foster and former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Landowners, including the Goughs, maintain that Foster hosted Cheney on a hunting trip in 2002 and shortly afterwards a federal grant came through Foster’s administration which was used to purchase the land which eventually came under the control of Busbice and Six-C.
Efforts by LouisianaVoice to confirm that allegation have been unsuccessful, though an entry of more than $87.86 million was included on page 29 in Foster’s fiscal year 2003-2004 executive budget under the column heading of Federal Funds.
Marty Milner, fiscal officer for the Office of Facility Planning and Control, said in a 2008 email to investigator Art Walker that he had found the $87.86 million but some projects were funded through the Department of the Military and the Department of Transportation and Development but his office did not handle the accounting for those departments. Accordingly, he said, he was unable to determine the disposition of the money.
Michael Gough, one of the landowners in the area, likened the Six-C hunting camp to the state’s arrangement with the White Lake Preservation in Vermilion Parish. In that case, BP donated the 71,000-acre preserve to the state but retained mineral rights on the property—and received millions of dollars in tax breaks.
Foster, governor at the time, negotiated the deal with BP and subsequently appointed a board comprised of private citizens to manage the property.
Another controversy surrounding the Six-C property arose in 2008 when a group of Winn Parish taxpayers filed suit against then-assessor Bodie, claiming that the increase in their taxes was a direct result of their opposition to Bodie’s election as sheriff.
Bodie was sentenced to a 13-year federal prison term last August for drug possession with intent to distribute.
An Alexandria Town Talk investigation revealed that several of Bodie’s friends benefitted from under-assessments. Among those was Six-C, which was the beneficiary of an assessment that was $351,800 low, according to one local resident.
Under the $20 per acre forestland value, Six-C was billed $98,601 on its Winn Parish properties, then consisting of 31,600 acres. Winn Parish resident Grady McFarland, however, said Six-C should have paid taxes based on an $88.90 per acre value, or $450,410.
Almost as an afterthought to the whole affair, Glenn Austin, district conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, accompanied Michael Gough on a tour of several locations around the boundary of Six-C property to inspect where “flood flaps,” made from old conveyor belts, were stretched across the bottom of the fence where it crossed streams and creeks in the area.
The flaps, installed to prevent wildlife from escaping, impeded the water flow, causing flooding and erosion. “There was sediment deposited within the channel banks at almost every location,” Austin said. “This increase in sediment load and increased turbidity in the water channels could be degrading the water quality” within the streams, he added.
Austin told Gough that if the area was deemed to be a wetland, then the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would have regulatory authority over the area.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:25 am to swanny297
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high fence
frickin CHEATERS!!!!
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:28 am to redbullwings
Yeah that Hard Luck fella definitely tries too hard
Posted on 12/4/14 at 10:32 am to Jack Daniel
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Cliffs?
Lots of butthurt from neighboring landowners but also some possible shady dealing going on.
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