BLM plans to seize Dann cattle and horses

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2002

The Bureau of Land Management is moving to seize more livestock it says belong to two Western Shoshone sisters in Nevada.

The BLM ordered the Dann sisters to remove up to 250 cattle and 1,000 horses from federal land. The sisters contend not all the animals belong to them.

The Danns and other Western Shoshone refuse to pay grazing fees because they say the land belongs to them under an 1863 treaty.

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BLM threatens Dann sisters with more livestock seizures (AP 12/20)

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