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The Cute Cannon Crew
Kendal Britzman, Kambryn Block and Clair
Britzman were part of the Elks Cannon Crew
during a MHSA Class B quarterfinal football game
on November 7th, helping to cheer the Scotties
to victory over Columbus on that cold and windy
day. Fast forward to this past Saturday, November
14th: it wasn’t the outcome the Scotties were
hoping for, but they gave Manhattan one heck
of a game, the first time the Tigers had been
scored on in the Playoffs. Glasgow trailed 16-6
at the end of the first quarter, 29-12 at halftime,
36-18 after three, and Manhattan would wrap up
the scoring with a touchdown in the fourth for
the 43-18 final score. Glasgow finished a fine
season with a 9-3 overall record. Two of those
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losses are to a pair of teams that will be meeting
up for the state title. Fairfield will host Manhattan
this Saturday as the Eagles won an overtime
thriller over Florence. The game was scoreless
at the end of regulation with the Eagles taking
an 8-0 lead in OT. The Falcons then punched
it into the endzone from 10 yards out on their
first play. They went to the air for the two-point
conversion, but a Fairfield interception ended
the game for the Eagles’ 8-6 victory. As for the
Scotties, they’ll be losing a pile of players to the
2021 graduation, but they’ve got a ton of talent
to rely on in the fall of 2021. They could and
should be right in the mix once again. Time to
start stocking up on that Elks cannon powder!
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Reel Life Wisdom
“Is the world fundamentally a better place because
of science and technology? We shop at home, we
surf the web, at the same time, we feel emptier,
lonelier and more cut off from each other than
at any other time in human history.” ~ Matthew
McConaugheyBlakey in Contact (1997... what
would they think of 2020?)
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Corkcicle coolers! potentially lead to pneumonia due to moisture &
bacteria. Masks promote touching of the face which
Don’t forget
could cause the spread of the virus. Masks could
give vulnerable people a false sense of security,
and color! putting them at risk of infection.
Bridal Registry Due to these theories, say that the Governor
Canen & Luedtke
April 10, 2021 banned the use of masks.
How would you feel if you were told that you
were not allowed to wear a mask even if your belief
was that they helped the situation?
We need to retain our freedom to choose.
I strongly believe that the majority of the
people truly care for each other & nobody wishes
harm upon anyone else. I believe the majority of
the people are being careful in their own ways to
help stop the spread.
I will gladly wear the mask out of respect for
other people & I will encourage other people to
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feel that the people are free to make their own
choice.
Please do not make us out to be the villains
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Please understand also that I am not attacking
anyone or their beliefs.
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Great day in Opheim, Montana!
Thank you for the wonderful Veterans Day
Program write-up from Opheim, and thanks to
Janet Bailey to get a couple of photographs before
the power went out!
It was so wonderful to see the Choir in their
robes standing tall without the Covid masks singing
the patriotic songs for our country and Veterans!
Thanks to all who participated in any way.
It is great to see that we can still stand tall in
these chaotic times! Thank you to all residents and
schools for supporting this.
~ Marlene McVee
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Federal Grazing District Water Rights
by Ron Stoneberg
The Congressional Desert Land
Act of 1877 severed the non-navigable
surface water and the ground water from
the western federal lands and gave them
to the states. This resulted in a split
estate of the western public lands. The
Act of 1890 declared all lands west of the
100th meridian were under the “Prior
Appropriation Doctrine” as it applied
to water rights. It contained three main
components: A. First in time, first in
right, B. The user of the water and not
the owner of the land gets the water
right, and C. The water must be diverted
and put to a beneficial use. Early
legislation and judicial decisions focused
on encouraging and accommodating
settlement of the arid western federal
lands.
Overgrazing of the federal
rangelands contributed to the dust
bowl in the early 1930’s. This resulted
in Congress passing the Taylor Grazing
Act (TGA) of 1934 and President
Roosevelt issuing Executive Order 6910,
both of which resulted in all unclaimed
federal land in the 12 western states
being removed from the public domain,
effectively ending the homesteading era.
The TGA authorized the creation
of Federal Grazing Districts (six in
Montana). The federal lands within the
districts were determined to be, “chiefly
valuable for grazing and raising forage
crops” by the Secretary of the Interior. In
addition, it allocated federal allotments
to adjacent stock raisers. The goals of
these actions were; to stop the extensive
overgrazing, stop the erosion, help make
the agricultural operations economically
viable, help the economy of adjacent
communities, and improve the habitats
for wildlife. It has been tremendously
successful on all points!
Most of the laws, regulations
and judicial decisions concerning
water rights relate to live streams and
irrigation. Stockwater use on the dry
federal rangelands was overlooked and
is different. In the first place, Federal
Grazing District ranchers are dealing
with intermittent atmospheric water
(rain and snow) that falls mainly on the
pasture or allotment and is consumed
by their livestock. Secondly, it is hard
to specify points of diversion since the
moisture can be spread over the entire
pasture (i.e. a late spring or early fall
6 inch snowfall). Finally, the periodic
spring runoffs have to be collected and
stored (i.e. reservoirs or pits) so water
is available to the livestock and wildlife
during the hot dry summer months.
The federal government has been
trying to take water rights from western
grazing district stockmen since the
1970’s (New Mexico vs US, 1978) when
they claimed they owned the land and
therefore they should have the water
rights. They lost in the US Supreme
Court. They tried again in Idaho in the
1990’s when they claimed the ranchers’
livestock were their beneficial use. They
lost in the Idaho Supreme Court (Joyce
vs US, 2007).
Now they are in Montana and
are trying a different tack to claim a
beneficial use. Since the BLM has never
used the water and has no intention
of using the water, they had to go to
ridiculous lengths to show how they
were putting the water to a beneficial use.
They scoured the Montana water rights
legal history and found an early Montana
Supreme Court irrigation ruling (Bailey
et. al. vs Tintinger et. al., 1912) that had
nothing to do with stockwater rights.
In Bailey the court ruled the Public
Service Corporations that diverted,
delivered, and sold water to settlers and
homesteaders for irrigation could obtain
a water right even though they were not
the beneficial users. However, when a
federal agency (Bureau of Reclamation)
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Grazing Rights continued from page 4
does the same thing they do not get a water right.
In 2014 the Montana Water Court’s Water
Master heard preliminary testimony concerning the
adjudication of water rights on Beaver Creek a tributary
of the Milk River Basin (40M). Unfortunately, the
Montana Water Master, the Montana Water Court and
six Montana Supreme Court judges bought the BLM’s
faulty argument that since they built the reservoirs
they were delivering the water to the livestock and
the livestock were their beneficial use (Barthelmess,
2016). Luckily, there was one Supreme Court Justice
(Judge McKinnon) who read the laws properly and in
her dissent totally destroyed the majority’s decision.
She convincingly details how Bailey is inapplicable to
this case. One aspect she missed was that BLM did not
construct the reservoirs or pits. Their main role is to
inspect the site to make sure it will function as intended
and would not harm archeological or wildlife etc.
features. If it passed inspection a contractor was hired
and paid with the rancher’s range improvement funds
(50% of the annual grazing fee). The structure then
becomes appurtenant to the rancher’s private property.
In other words, the ranchers own the water rights in the
reservoirs and pits on their federal allotment. Judge
McKinnon’s excellent dissent (Case No. 15-0533, MT
Supreme Court, 2016, MT 348) is a must read for all
ranchers having their federal allotment water rights
adjudicated.
Basically, most of the Federal Grazing District
ranches have been using this water for over 100 years
and nobody contested or complained about this use of
the water. For some reason the Federal Government
has now decided they want the water rights. They do
not want to use the water; they only want the water
right. The obvious question is, WHY? One possible
reason is the federal government was stymied in their
attempt to dispose of federal rangeland during the
Sagebrush Rebellion because they did not have clear title
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since ranchers held vested water rights. If the federal
government gets the water rights, that roadblock will
have been removed. They will then be free to dispose of
the federal “public” rangeland.
If the BLM does not intend to use the water and the
ranchers will still be able to water their livestock, where
is the problem? There are a couple of major problems!
First, the rancher is losing a vested property right that
cannot be taken without due process and payment of
just compensation (US Constitution, Amendment V).
These vested rights are being replaced with a privilege
that can be taken for any reason at any time with no
compensation (how much “privileged” grazing is left
on the CMR?). Secondly, how much will the ranch be
worth if it does not have a guaranteed summer range
water right?
Since the Montana bureaucracy (DNRC) and
the Montana Courts have not protected the ranchers’
property rights, their two choices are expensive litigation
or help from the Montana Legislature. Hopefully, the
new Administration and Legislature will be sympathetic
to the ranchers’ plight and pass a bill similar to the one
passed in Idaho that says the BLM cannot hold a water
right on the Federal Grazing Districts in Montana.
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