A South Texas rancher claims Border Patrol agents trespassed on his land two miles outside of their no-warrant search zone and installed a surveillance camera on a tree, before the Texas Rangers threatened to charge him with theft for not handing over the camera.
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More than 760,000 acres in Arizona and New Mexico will remain protected habitat for the jaguar, despite New Mexico ranchers’ objections, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Ranchers in Northern California sued the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday, claiming it knowingly let wild horses overpopulate the Modoc National Forest and deplete their grazing resources.
Read moreFederal prosecutors didn’t make any of 40 charges stick against four defendants charged in the armed standoff with federal agents who tried to round up Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle in 2014.
Read moreEven if his blindness should go away, Cliven Bundy supporter Gregory Burleson likely won’t see the light of day outside of a federal prison after being sentenced to more than 68 years Wednesday.
Read moreEnvironmentalists and cattle ranchers struck a deal with the federal government this week that will let ranchers continue leasing land at Point Reyes National Seashore for five years as the park studies the impact of eliminating ranching.
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Drought continues to plague much of South Dakota, as ranchers struggle to feed their herds and government steps in to offer relief.
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South Dakota’s Department of Transportation will stop mowing grass along highways to allow for more hay for ranchers in desperate need of food for cattle in the midst of a summer drought, according to a governor’s declaration Friday morning.
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Hitting regulators with a federal complaint, Nebraska beef producers contend that the state’s cattle-branding requirements are costly and unnecessary.
Read moreThe federal government is taking a cattle-tick eradication program too far, forcing Texas ranchers to have their herds dipped in an insecticide that’s killing cattle, ranchers claim in three lawsuits seeking a combined $1.4 million damages.
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