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« on: October 06, 2013, 02:10:19 pm » |
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I am not exactly sure when it come to Arkansas. The end of free range was before my time. I know of a certain WMA here that u can still see the old fence and the signs proclaiming it the stock law fence. At that time from what I was told by my dad west of that fence was free range and east of the fence wasn't. East of the dance was the delta and row crop farming was the normal way of life. West of the fence cattle ranching and the timber industry was the most common ways of life. My dad told me years ago that at one point the ended free range and everyone scrambled to round up there cows and hogs. Because after a certain date they would be considered fair game of whoever caught them outside of there owners property. I can recall in the late 80's there were lots of cattle gaps on rural roads and in the hills. All of these are now gone except on the levee along the MS river. This free range livestock is the birthplace of what most of the wild hogs we have today in AR. The places with the most wild hogs are also the same places free range hogs lasted the longest or people continued to do so contrary to the law of the time.
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