"Free Land Holders" trying to claim land in SW CO

[Bluumoon]

A group of people ("Free Land Holders") have moved into our county and fenced off approx 1000acres of USFS land in a popular recreation area. Not sure what kind of sh*t show this is going to turn into. All I have are Facebook "facts" about who these people are, but I have noticed women around town dressed like the Warren Jeffs group photos I've seen in the last week or two.

 

[Bluumoon]

Sheriff statement

 

[Q child]

Sheriff statement

Seems like a responsible way to handle the situation. Watching curiously.

 

[Bluumoon]

Seems like a responsible way to handle the situation. Watching curiously.

Our Sheriff is a solid guy.

 

[DESERT ED]

Everybody locally hide your daughters

 

[LFC911]

Why would you have to wait for a federal judge to make a decision on who owns federal property?!? Seems pretty cut and dried to me. The homestead act was repealed in the lower 48 in 1976. Seems like everyone is looking for loopholes to take our public lands.

 

[flathead#2]

If they fenced off 1000 acres, they gettin money somewhere.

 

[butcherboy]

Everybody locally hide your daughters

Why?

 

[DESERT ED]

Why?

Warren Jeffs group

 

[CorbLand]

If they fenced off 1000 acres, they gettin money somewhere.

If it’s truely part of the FLDS sect. They may be short a few things but money isn’t one of them.

 

[BTLowry]

Can't be too mad at them for trying since the state of Utah has been in the news trying to grab fed land recently

For the record I think both the state and this group are in the wrong

 

[butcherboy]

Warren Jeffs group

I know who he is and who they are. My question is why hide your daughters? They don’t steal anyone’s girls and marry them. They marry within their own sect. It’s definitely not right having so many wives and underage but I’ve never heard of them stealing away women and girls.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Very interesting seems like the sheriff is handling it well

 

[TaperPin]

I fail to see the reason to allow them to stay - if anyone can simply tell the sherif it’s a civil thing and take over FS land for the duration of a bogus lawsuit, it makes a mockery of the process.

I have no respect for a group of pedophiles.

 

[Weldor]

I guess I'll just start buying up Tee post's and some wire. Start my own ranch. LOL

 

[RockAndSage]

If it’s truely part of the FLDS sect. They may be short a few things but money isn’t one of them.

Or unmarried, young male laborers.

 

[Bluumoon]

A local group of citizens is going to head up and do fence removal today, curious to see how that goes.

 

[Nickofthewoods]

A local group of citizens is going to head up and do fence removal today, curious to see how that goes.

Several years ago I contacted a Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer about an abandoned camp where the occupants had left behind tents, coolers, sleeping bags and a shit load of other junk and trash. I drove past this camp for over a month and it was clear that the transient people who once occupied it were not coming back. The FS Officer I spoke with told me that they couldn't do anything with the belongings for 99 days past the 14 day limit due to one of their policies. When I heard that I just took it upon myself to clean the place up and I threw it all in a dumpster. Some of the Forest Service's policies make no sense and you end up with scenarios like this where locals end up taking action themselves.

Why would you have to wait for a federal judge to make a decision on who owns federal property?!?

Right. There is a 14 day maximum stay rule on Forest Service land. So these people are not only breaking that law but trying to claim ownership because they made a fence? This also makes no sense.

 

[WCB]

I've cut fences and removed gates before unlawfully blocking public land or road right of ways...wouldn't hesitate to do it again if I was in that area.

 

[Legend]

Provide notice, start writing citations, start throwing them in jail. What am I missing?