Federal land grab comes to California
(Breitbart)
– Americans have become increasingly concerned about the federal
government’s seizure of privately-held lands and property, especially
after the Cliven Bundy incident in Nevada. Now another land owner, Bill
Johnson of Temecula, California,
claims his property at Vail Lake, the largest privately-owned lake in
California, is being threatened by the county, state, and federal
governments.
Johnson
purchased 11,000 acres of land in Riverside County over 17 years ago,
including Vail Lake, encompassing over 1,000 square surface acres of
water. Now Johnson claims various levels of government are trying to
seize the property, using intimidation under the guise of environmental
concerns.
Johnson
told Breitbart News: “The habitat is free of any endangered
species. The government just wants it because it’s part of their ‘core
area’ due to the
properties of water and enormous size.”
He mentioned that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) currently manages land parcels on either side of Vail Lake.
“The
EPA needed to come up with 42,000 acres in the area to ‘protect’ the
kangaroo rats,” Johnson said. “They intimated property owners into
giving up their land.”....(MORE)
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