Unit 10 Wind Farm

[couesdiehard]

scoutpylot,

I must be confused but I understood the restriction of firearms to be just on the private land.

"General hunters and those with rifle permit-tags can still use a firearm in Unit 10, just not on the Perrin Ranch. To be permitted to hunt on the ranch's private lands, sportsmen will need to keep their firearm in their vehicles and hunt with a bow and arrow."

 

Also I don't know where you got the 77,000 acres from the article stated different numbers,

"For those rifle tag holders and general hunters who do not want to hunt with a bow and arrow, the 64,000-acre ranch makes up a very small portion of the vast 770,000 acres in Game Management Unit 10"

 

I don't like losing any access to public lands but in this case it doesn't sound like we did. It sounds like we lost access to use firearms for one year on private land. Looking at State Trust Land Maps most of the southeast corner of the unit (where the article says the Perrin Ranch is located) appears to be private land.

 

Don't think this is the one I would choose to protest. Just my two cents.

[azrcks]

scoutpylot,

I must be confused but I understood the restriction of firearms to be just on the private land.

"General hunters and those with rifle permit-tags can still use a firearm in Unit 10, just not on the Perrin Ranch. To be permitted to hunt on the ranch's private lands, sportsmen will need to keep their firearm in their vehicles and hunt with a bow and arrow."

 

Also I don't know where you got the 77,000 acres from the article stated different numbers,

"For those rifle tag holders and general hunters who do not want to hunt with a bow and arrow, the 64,000-acre ranch makes up a very small portion of the vast 770,000 acres in Game Management Unit 10"

 

I don't like losing any access to public lands but in this case it doesn't sound like we did. It sounds like we lost access to use firearms for one year on private land. Looking at State Trust Land Maps most of the southeast corner of the unit (where the article says the Perrin Ranch is located) appears to be private land.

 

Don't think this is the one I would choose to protest. Just my two cents.

 

I understood it differently, if you look at the perrin ranch it is entirely checkerboard, there is a ton state trust land, which you will not be able to use a firearm on this year because these parcels are within the ranch boundaries. Next year you will have to also stay a 1/4 mile away from these turbines (62 of them) because they are treated as occupied structures, and the addition of 35 miles of roads.

[Chris]

Santana: This is owned by Mike Oden?

[couesdiehard]

scoutpylot,

I must be confused but I understood the restriction of firearms to be just on the private land.

"General hunters and those with rifle permit-tags can still use a firearm in Unit 10, just not on the Perrin Ranch. To be permitted to hunt on the ranch's private lands, sportsmen will need to keep their firearm in their vehicles and hunt with a bow and arrow."

 

Also I don't know where you got the 77,000 acres from the article stated different numbers,

"For those rifle tag holders and general hunters who do not want to hunt with a bow and arrow, the 64,000-acre ranch makes up a very small portion of the vast 770,000 acres in Game Management Unit 10"

 

I don't like losing any access to public lands but in this case it doesn't sound like we did. It sounds like we lost access to use firearms for one year on private land. Looking at State Trust Land Maps most of the southeast corner of the unit (where the article says the Perrin Ranch is located) appears to be private land.

 

Don't think this is the one I would choose to protest. Just my two cents.

 

I understood it differently, if you look at the perrin ranch it is entirely checkerboard, there is a ton state trust land, which you will not be able to use a firearm on this year because these parcels are within the ranch boundaries. Next year you will have to also stay a 1/4 mile away from these turbines (62 of them) because they are treated as occupied structures, and the addition of 35 miles of roads.

Looking at better maps yesterday I saw that indeed the ranch is a checkerboard of state trust land, you are correct about that. But the turbines are all going on private land and I don't think they will be considered occupied structures. If they are considered occupied structures then I would hope the ranch owners would be willing to grant permission to hunt within 1/4 of them.

[abovethecoues]

This sounds like a good compromise. And it probably won't be the last such case we see in arizona.

 

Lower your expectations and you won't be so disappointed

 

Im at a glass half full tonight I guess.

[123456]

I have a terrible feeling that hunting near these turbines will end shortly after they allow hunting in there. Unfortunately, there are too many idiots who are going to start shooting the turbines. I can already see it now. Then so long to that piece of land. Thank god 10 is gigantic and this will not affect too many people. I agree that the owner is only doing what he needs to do. His land, he has been ncie enough to allow hunting for this long and now he needs to head another direction. Good luck with the wind farm and I hope his bags of money "Mike" will be sleeping on will be comfortable.