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...SHAME THAT YOUR ITEM ON NEVADA rancher Dick Carver, "That Pocket Constitution," contained a reader's erroneous reference to Thomas Jefferson as a drafter of the Constitution [LETTERS, Nov. 13]. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence but not the Constitution. He was Minister to France when the Constitution was written in 1787 and objected strongly to the omission of a bill of rights. Partly as a result of Jefferson's urging, the first 10 Amendments were soon added to the Constitution. GARY L. TAYLOR U.S. District Judge Santa Ana, California...
...make an end run around the subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, which is headed by Jim Saxton of New Jersey, a moderate Republican who favors the law. Instead Young formed an endangered-species task force and turned it over to Representative Richard Pombo, a fourth-generation rancher from California's Central Valley who is at war with the Federal Government over land-use regulations. At Young's direction, Pombo scheduled hearings in rural Western counties. Environmentalists complained that speakers sympathetic to the law were squeezed out. What Pombo heard in abundance were stories of local landowners who didn...
SITTING ON A BALE OF BARLEY destined for his cattle, Dick Carver gets just a little misty eyed as he recalls the moment that propelled him to leadership of a rebellion now sweeping the West. Usually mild mannered and affable, the Nevada rancher and Nye County commissioner reached a point last year when he had had enough. To him, federal intrusion into the daily life of his county had simply grown too great, so on July 4, 1994--Independence Day--he took the law into his own hands. His weapon of choice: a rusting, yellow D-7 Caterpillar bulldozer...
...Smoky Valley. The family homestead became a small town, Carver Station--known locally as Carvers--but otherwise the valley looks the way it did a half-century ago. He now raises 100 head of cattle on about 860 acres of his own land--making him possibly the only rancher in the county movement without a direct financial stake in how federal land gets managed...
Where rich rancher-legislators or rancher-officials control or influence lawmaking bodies, conflict of interest (and ethics involved) should be exposed...