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An open range sign along the Interstate 10 Frontage Road in southern Arizona.. Where there are "open range" laws, people wanting to keep animals off their property must erect a legal fence to keep animals out, as opposed to the "herd district" where an animal's owner must fence it in or otherwise keep it on the person's own property.
Over time, court cases steadily limited the application of open range law until the present day, where it is the exception rather than the rule in many parts of the American West. In the United Kingdom, the law is different for private land and common land. On private land it is the owner's responsibility to fence livestock in, but it is the ...
Map of all federally owned land in the United States. The area in yellow represents land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Laws that apply to management of public land grazing are generally codified in Title 43 of the United States Code and include the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 (TGA), the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Federal Land ...
In many of those states, such as Arizona, an open-range law applies which requires a land owner to fence cattle out rather than in; thus cattle are theoretically allowed to roam free. In modern times open-range laws can conflict with urban development as occasional stray cows, bulls, or even herds wander into subdivisions or onto highways. [28]
He said open container laws could restrict economic activity in Erie, especially in areas near bars and restaurants. In a Sept. 10 email to City Council members, Lavery stated that Erie "is the ...
Overgrazing and harsh winters were factors that brought an end to the age of the open range Introduction of barbed wire fences marked the closure of the open range. Expansion of the cattle industry resulted in the need for additional open range. Thus many ranchers expanded into the northwest, where there were still large tracts of unsettled ...
The "open range" tradition of requiring landowners to fence out unwanted livestock was dominant in most of the rural west until very late in the 20th century, and even today, a few isolated regions of the west still have open range statutes on the books.
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