Here are several takeaways from the Tribune’s reporting on a deal enabling a San Juan family to live on a federal grazing allotment rent-free.
Takeaways from the Tribune’s reporting on a deal enabling San Juan family to live on a federal grazing allotment.
An outspoken critic of the Bears Ears monument designation, Utah ranchers Sandy and Gail Johnson have lived on public land inside the monument without paying rent since the late 1970s. According to Gail Johnson, her family’s 261,000-acre ranch is so far from any towns that it is necessary to live on publicly owned land, which has since become part of“We have to live here to take care of the cows. You can’t do that when you are running back and forth from town. Hauling water there is a full-time job. A lot of our ranch is an hour or more from Fry Canyon,” she said. “We are good people. We aren’t living here rent-free illegally.
Their ranch headquarters in Fry Canyon has been the site of cow camp dating back to the 1880s, according to Johnson. BLM records show the first home was placed there in 1961 by the rancher who held the allotment before the Johnsons. Since then, larger homes have been brought in, including a double-wide trailer currently mounted on a foundation. The cow camp has evolved into a compound with fenced pens and corrals, a pasture, numerous outbuildings, tanks and water lines.
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