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Archive for the ‘Private Property’ Category
13 Oct
Alert: Speak Out for Private Property
The Governor’s River Access Dispute Resolution Task Force will meet again on Wednesday, October 13 at the Glenwood Springs Recreation Center, 100 Wulfsohn Rd., in Glenwood Springs. The meeting will be held from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., with hours from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. reserved for public input. This is a chance for [...]
24 Aug
Colorado Farm Bureau Disappointed in River Access Taskforce Appointees
The Colorado Farm Bureau is extremely disappointed in the make-up of Governor Ritter’s River Access Dispute Resolution Taskforce. A cursory level of research shows that the political orientation of the task force appointees is clearly one-sided, with one of the Governor’s appointees a signatory of an online “9-11 Truth” petition and many more being directly [...]
13 Aug
Complete Federal Land Grab Document Released
Congressman Rob Bishop, the gentleman from Utah who kindly provided Americans with the documents that showed the Obama administration was planning another federal land-grab, has come through again. (The Pulse covered the original leaked document extensively. Read the original story here.) Bishop’s office has release the entire BLM document titled “Treasured Landscapes” of which only [...]
19 Apr
NY Times Examines Right to Trespass
Until recently, an uneasy truce existed between rafters and landowners. But that truce quickly disintegrated this year over a bill introduced in the legislature that would bolster rafters’ rights to float through private property. (Image: New York Times)
9 Apr
News Roundup- HB 1188
This week, the Wall Street Journal took a look at HB 1188 and lawmakers held firm despite allegations of extortion attempts by rafting interests. Critics question rafter’s motives after land, money talk Denver Post, Jessica Fender Landowners have questioned the motives of a river rafter at the heart of a legislative fight over access to [...]
9 Apr
Farm Bureau Talks HB 1188 on Rocky Mountain PBS
On Wednesday evening, Colorado Farm Bureau EVP Troy Bredenkamp and Terry Fankhauser of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Assn. appeared on the PBS show Studio 12, to talk about the Right to Trespass bill.
29 Mar
Groups File River Initiatives
As the debate on the Senate version of HB 1188 heats up in the media, John Leede and Charles Thrailkill, members of the Creekside Coalition, filed 20 ballot measures, limiting the use of rivers or targeting rafters with strict liability provisions. Rafting interests filed 4 of their own initiatives. They say they filed their ballot [...]
22 Mar
News Round-up: HB 1188
Rafting bill hits rough water GJ Sentinel – The Daily Sentinel The Colorado Senate did the prudent thing Friday and halted a rafting-rights bill that had been sailing through the … Raft bill sinks in legislature Grand Junction Sentinel - Charles Ashby – Not only would river rafting outfitters have earned the right to float through [...]
20 Mar
HB 1188 Amended to a Study
Today, the controversial right-to-trespass bill, HB 1188, was amended to become a study by the Colorado Water Congress. Senator Al White ran the amendment, which recognizes the need to study and potentially clarify the existing law concerning civil and criminal trespass by boaters on rivers and streams flowing through private property in Colorado. The CWC [...]
19 Mar
HB 1188 Passes with Amendments
The ‘Right to Trespass’ bill passed the full Senate today on an amendment that directs the Colorado water Congress to study the issue. The amendment states that the State “recognizes the need to study and potentially clarify the existing law concerning civil and criminal trespass by boaters on rivers and streams flowing through private property [...]
16 Mar
Farm Bureau Proposes Legislation at Caucuses Tonight
Colorado’s precinct caucuses are tonight and in light of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s decision to approve HB 1188, we are asking you to attend your local caucus to push your political party to pass a resolution supporting private property rights. If you need to find the location of your caucus use the links below. **Republican [...]
16 Mar
HB 1188 Passes on to Full Senate
After more than 7 hours of public testimony and debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send the controversial Right to Trespass bill, HB 1188, to the Senate Floor on a party line vote. Amendment language was added to the bill that broadened the language to include all boaters, not just commercial outfitters. The amendment [...]
12 Mar
ALERT: Senators, Vote NO on HB 1188
We have been notified that HB 1188 the ‘Right to Trespass’ bill’s hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee has been switched to this coming MONDAY, MARCH 15 at 1:30PM. Please plan to be in Denver if possible to attend the committee hearing in person. We need all hands on deck for this measure if we have any hope [...]
3 Mar
Updated ‘Right to Trespass’ News Round-Up
***Update*** Bill Threatens Ag, Tourism Balance Coloradoan- Mar 3, 2010 The Threat of Commercial Rafters The Aspen Times- Feb 24, 2010 _________________________________________________ Guest Commentary: Why favor rafters? Denver Post - Feb 28, 2010 Stow the oars on rafting bill Grand Junction Sentinel - Feb 26, 2010 Impractical rafting bill threatens Colorado’s property rights Grand Junction Sentinel - Feb [...]
3 Mar
More Opposition to HB 1188
Two more op-eds were published in Colorado newspapers opposing HB 1188. Opposition to the measure has been slowly growing across the state as more and more people realize that the bill goes far beyond simply clarifying the current system of floating on Colorado’s rivers. Larimer County Farm Bureau President Bob Bee was published in the [...]
1 Mar
Farm Bureau Applauds Utah House for Turning Back Trespass Bill
The Colorado Farm Bureau and other groups in opposition to House Bill 1188, the controversial “Right to Float” bill, are praising the Utah House of Representatives for killing a similar measure introduced into that body. Last Tuesday, the Utah House defeated a measure that would have given recreational water users the right to trespass on [...]
26 Feb
Daily Sentinel Joins Others in Opposing the ‘Right to Trespass’ Bill
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel has published an opinion column which opposes HB 1188 the ‘Right to Trespass’ bill and has issued a house editorial calling for the measure to be killed. The Sentinel now joins the Pueblo Chieftain and the Colorado Springs Gazette in opposing the bill. The Sentinel Editorial Board writes in Fridays [...]
17 Feb
Join the Conversation Over HB 1188
There is an interesting conversation going on over at the post, ALERT: Vote NO on HB 118 HB 1188′s recent passage in the House (40-25) has got rafters and community members voicing their opinions, and we want you to join in on the conversation! Read about the bill and it’s potential impact on private landowners [...]
17 Feb
ALERT: Vote NO on HB 1188!
HB 1188 is a fundamental attack on private property rights and if passed, will severely compromise a landowner’s ability to restrict access to his/her private property. In short, this bill is a license to “trespass” and a clear “taking” of one’s property right by nearly every legal mind who has assessed this bill. Specifically, HB 1188 [...]
16 Feb
House Votes to Erode Private Property Rights
The Colorado House of Representatives today voted 40-25 to further remove the private property rights of landowners and give them to special interests. HB 1188, sponsored by Rep. Kathleen Curry (I-Gunnison) would grant river outfitters and rafting guides the right to trespass on private property without the prior notification, consent or compensation of the landowner. [...]
10 Feb
Predictions on Equine Welfare Realized
Four years ago, a report by the Animal Welfare Council entitled, “The Unintended Consequences of a Ban on Humane Processing of Horses in the United States” made predictions as to the welfare of horses under a ban on processing activites in the U.S. While animal activist groups blindly continue on their march toward ending horse [...]
9 Feb
Rep. Curry, House Judiciary Committee Sell Property Rights Down the River
Rep. Kathleen Curry (D-Gunnison) and a group of legislators on the Colorado House Judiciary Committee have launched a multi-pronged attack on private property rights in Colorado. HB 1188 introduced by Rep. Curry and passed by the House Judiciary Committee on Monday constitutes a statutory right to trespass on private property and overturns decades of Colorado [...]
22 Jan
Check out the Contours on That One
By Dal Grooms There’s been much talk recently about how state-of-the-art airport security equipment can reveal body contours. Many people shudder at the thought of someone looking at the very personal curves and slopes of their bodies. Farmers and ranchers, on the other hand, are more than happy to show off another kind of contours—the [...]
5 Jan
LA Times Looks into Cattle Theft
The LA Times takes a look into the rash of rustling taking place in Great basin country. “Cattle theft — rustling — is not just something you read about in old Western magazines or watch in the Western movies you see,” said Ed Kilgore, sheriff of Nevada’s Humboldt County. “I really believe it’s going on [...]
5 Jan
Top Five Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2009 Announced
Voters Give Top ‘Honor’ to lawsuit brought by illegal immigrants who sued rancher for turning them over to U.S. Border Patrol. Nominees were drawn from the monthly Most Ridiculous Lawsuit poll winners, chosen by visitors to FacesofLawsuitAbuse.org, a public awareness campaign Web site that aims to show how abusive lawsuits affect small businesses and average [...]
4 Jan
Estate Tax Viewed as Big Ag Issue in 2010
The estate tax will be one of the big issues in Congress for farmers and ranchers in 2010, according to Mark Maslyn, executive director of public policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation. “The exemption levels at the end of 2009 were $3.5 million per household. In 2010 that has gone away. The estate tax [...]
7 Dec
House Votes to Make Current Estate Tax Permanent
The House on Thursday voted to make the current estate tax exemption and rate permanent. The measure approved by the House locks in an exemption of $3.5 million per individual. “What passed the House was better than doing nothing, because it would expire this coming January, but then come back to life in 2011 with [...]
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