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Earlier this week I wrote a post on a southern Utah family facing eviction from their land that the BLM claimed it “owned”.

Today’s Salt Lake Tribune reports that the motion for eviction has been stayed.

Months after filing a request in U.S. District Court that law enforcement officials remove structures off the 2.5 acres of Bureau of Land Management land, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Salt Lake City on Thursday filed a motion to stay the order. The stay was prompted by news that a new owner has acquired the mobile home inadvertently placed on the property in 1976.
“The new owner has expressed an interest in settling this matter amicably that would not require the execution of a writ of assistance,” reads the motion.

This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land….”

(music comes to screeching halt)

The BLM allows ranchers to have their livestock trample all over forests and deserts, disturbing sensitive ground (just walk around those forests and deserts of Utah, and you will see….).
Yet when someone is living on a small parcel of what the BLM deems is “its land”, officials within the BLM determine that residential living is not appropriate for the ground.

This makes absolutely no sense.

In the Salt Lake Tribune’s article, Son inherits BLM scrape, there is an account of a man and his family living on his family’s land (inherited from his great-great grandfather), on a small parcel of it that was set up in 1976 based on a fence line between the property and the “BLM” land. (which is actually the land of all of us).

The BLM is not only now evicting the young family but is requiring them to pay an archaelogical fee to record American Indian sites on the property and to repair the impact on sensitive ground.

The Tribune lists this time table at the end of the article:
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