High Lonesome Lost... Public hunters Won

[elks96]

Just saw this. It finally came through. I could say lots of things about High Lonesome and none of them would be nice. I am happy that we pushed Garfield County a commissioners to this task. It is a good chunk of land opened back up and better yet the ranch was sent a message.

County wins, judge orders ranch to open road outside De Beque

A federal judge has ordered a guest ranch to remove a locked gate on Garfield County Road 200 outside De Beque after agreeing with the county that it is a

www.gjsentinel.com

 

[grizzly]

Congratulations to Colorado for protecting public access to public land!

 

[DoubleDropMuley]

Sounds like a good deal and the way it should be, nothing p’s me off more than land owners being able to landlock public lands just not cool!!

 

[coloradoman]

I will go up there this weekend and see if it is open yet. I know someone with a cow tag.

 

[nwhunter]

The High Lonesome has tried to bully hunters for years. If you were legally hunting BLM in their neighborhood they would sit in their security truck where you park and try and intimidate you and catch you crossing to the road on their little strips of private they buy trying to landlock all the blm.. Glad someone took them to task.

 

[BeanMan]

High Lonesome are a bunch of bastards. I hope this ruling keeps that gate open but I won’t hold my breath. I’ll go check it out soon, a young friend has a late season cow tag.

 

[elkchaserreturns]

This ruling was long overdue! I hope there are many, many, more like it.
I have always been a strong supporter of land owner rights.
However,
I cannot condone denying access to large tracks of public land by simply installing a gate on a public road, and then locking it.
Kelso Mesa on the Uncomphagre Plateau.
Chalk Mtn east of Palisade.
The Raggeds northeast of Paonia.
These are just some of the ones I have dealt with personally. There are many others that I have heard about.
This has been a common practice in Colorado for more than 40 years and it is starting to happen here in AZ.

Elkchaser

 

[elks96]

Just FYI, the article said something about a reasonable time to unlock the gate? Not sure what a reasonable time might mean? I am glad it went to court. I wonder if they are willing to keep fighting it?
They have always been a holes and harassed people left and right...

nothing was better then killing pheasants on the small pieces of public near their place. They were always trying to run us out, but when the pheasants are on public nothing they an do. Even if they are the ones raising and letting em go!!!

 

[DH56]

Reasonable Time to open??? 3 days, week, month?? Wondering the same.

 

[coloradoman]

Just FYI, the article said something about a reasonable time to unlock the gate? Not sure what a reasonable time might mean? I am glad it went to court. I wonder if they are willing to keep fighting it?
They have always been a holes and harassed people left and right...

nothing was better then killing pheasants on the small pieces of public near their place. They were always trying to run us out, but when the pheasants are on public nothing they an do. Even if they are the ones raising and letting em go!!!

Yeah they Tried to kick me out of there one time and I told him to call the sheriff and have him meet me at my exact spot because I was on public and they kind of backed off but they were jerks about it

 

[coloradoman]

Early on when they first put up all the statues along the road I thought they were pretty cool so I stop at each one and look at them and they told me that I cannot be on that road in the first place and I told him that was BS because it was a county road nothing they could do about it

 

[ColoradoOak]

Early on when they first put up all the statues along the road I thought they were pretty cool so I stop at each one and look at them and they told me that I cannot be on that road in the first place and I told him that was BS because it was a county road nothing they could do about it

I think you’re talking about neighboring Kessler Canyon Ranch, now called Branded Rock Canyon.

 

[littlebull209338]

They use to load their horses in a trailer and go to the head of drainages on public a couple of days before season and ride toward the ranch head quarters shooting and hollering. This of coarse drove nearly all the animals onto their land.......slimey crooks is what they are. I was victim of this twice.

 

[coloradoman]

I think you’re talking about neighboring Kessler Canyon Ranch, now called Branded Rock Canyon.

I thought they were owned by the same group? Either way I’ve been on them both.
Going up tomorrow with OnX so I will update

 

[montana123]

Should be after all the federal employees put there lives on the line trying to save the ranch.

 

[GrampPa_Co]

The High Lonesome has tried to bully hunters for years. If you were legally hunting BLM in their neighborhood they would sit in their security truck where you park and try and intimidate you and catch you crossing to the road on their little strips of private they buy trying to landlock all the blm.. Glad someone took them to task.

That's what they tried to do to me a few years ago, I just smiled and waved as he approached me to ask questions. I offered him no information accept for my license plate number that he already had! I could hear his truck running for miles up the canyon we were hunting in. I even think he tried to rev it up to get our attention.

 

[Ultimag]

The ranch will win on appeal

 

[elks96]

I thought they were owned by the same group? Either way I’ve been on them both.
Going up tomorrow with OnX so I will update

Well was the gate open?

 

[coloradoman]

Nope and they had someone there guarding it lol

 

[elks96]

The ranch will win on appeal

How do you figure they can win on appeal? What evidence do you have to support this?

 

[elks96]

Nope and they had someone there guarding it lol

Hymmm.... Wonder if it has been opened since?

 

[SS!]

How do you figure they can win on appeal? What evidence do you have to support this?

Look at all his posts elk96. He’s the donkey in Winnie the Pooh...

 

[elks96]

Look at all his posts elk96. He’s the donkey in Winnie the Pooh...

HAHA.... AN Eeyore

 

[BeanMan]

Well was the gate open?

No, it has not been open

 

[Monster Bucks 27]

The gate has been locked again as of 8.21.21 no more public access on over 50,000 acres of BLM. Conservation groups are now backing the road closure. Read this https://publiclandjurisdiction.com/...k-to-bypass-the-rule-of-law-out-west-rs-2477/

 

[elks96]

Interesting. I am betting that there are enough people that have used or supported the Colorado Farm Bureau that value public lands, that this could totally blow back on them. We need to get the word out. I know many members who are small family farm/ranches who are members, but also believe in public land support!

this is a much bigger red flag. They are arguing against public access in the name of environmentalism.

 

[littlebull209338]

Good news the county has won an appeal that the ranch had on a stay to keep the toad closed. So as of now the road is open and should be for the foreseeable future.

 

[BeanMan]

I might have to go for drive, lived within 30 miles of it for 30 years.