He did promise to take the ranchers' case to the next meeting of the European agriculture ministers, on Feb. 27 in Brussels.
That charge carries a similar mandatory minimum as the offense that led to the prosecution and imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers whose case inspired the Malheur standoff.
Harold Rice, a Big Island rancher, took a case against the state of Hawaii arguing that elections to the board of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs could not be restricted to people of kānaka maoli descent.
The device can detect some of the wolves because they have radio collars.And so continues the bizarre long-running case of Ranchers & Sheep v Wolves & Greens.
The longer-term challenge is to help ranchers see the bird as more of an opportunity than a burden as some of the ranchers in the previous case now see the tiger salamander.
In that case, a Nevada rancher named Larry D. Hiibel was arrested when he refused to give his name to an officer investigating a report of a domestic assault.
Framing her book with the case of a rancher killed near the U.S.-Mexico border, the Republican governor suggests throughout her book that the murder was committed by an "illegal alien" -- although the crime remains unsolved.
"What we have are good rural producers; what we lack are rural entrepreneurs," says Frederico Diamantino, a director of the Associação Brasileira dos Criadores de Zebu, the world's largest group of ranchers.Ranching is a notorious case but not an isolated one.
In the case of California ranchers and the tiger salamander, a special exemption was created for routine ranch practices (United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife 2004), at least partly in recognition of the fact that without ranches, there would be no habitat at all.
Father and son Dwight and Steve Hammond were convicted of federal arson charges in a case that for some ranchers and rural communities in the west symbolized government overreach.
