{"id":51848,"date":"2018-01-26T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=51848"},"modified":"2018-01-26T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:22:26","slug":"national-forest-now-open-range-op-ed-by-tony-gheno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=51848","title":{"rendered":"National Forest Now Open Range ~ Op-Ed By Tony Gheno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonora, CA&#8230;The Toulumne County Court has determined that National Forest Land is now Open Range.  This is a huge change considering it has been closed range since the gold rush days.  This affects thousands of property owners in our county.  Any land that borders the forest or in the forest can now run Cattle, if the FS wants to stop them they will need to build fences to keep them off FS land.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg 320w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo.jpg 200w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo-150x169.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had been fighting the ranchers to stop trespassing my property out near the Mt Knight area, I had Randy Havelt Look into this and why the sheriffs dept and county courts refused too assert these guys when we we made aware The Toulumne County Court has determined that Nation Forest Land is now Open Range<\/p>\n<p>This is a huge change considering it has been closed range since the gold rush days<\/p>\n<p>This affects thousands of property owners in our county.  Any land that borders the forest or in the forest can now run Cattle, if the FS wants to stop them they will need to build fences to keep them off FS land<\/p>\n<p>I had been fighting the ranchers in my area to stop trespassing my property out near the Mt Knight area, I had Randy Havelt Look into this and why the sheriffs dpt and county courts refused too Prosecute these guys when we we made aware that the courts determined that while Toulumne County is closed range, the FS land is open range. <\/p>\n<p>The following response from a County person involved:  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of this and have made every attempt to solve Mr. Gheno\u2019s issues. It comes down to that this forest is \u201copen range\u201d, meaning it is the property owners responsibility to fence his\/her property to keep the cattle out of his\/her land. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonora, CA&#8230;The Toulumne County Court has determined that National Forest Land is now Open Range. This is a huge change considering it has been closed range since the gold rush days. This affects thousands of property owners in our county. Any land that borders the forest or in the forest can now run Cattle, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,4,1,143,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-life-style","category-news","category-opinion","category-tuolumne-county","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}