Fence fight nears boiling point

Local officials are concerned that a state land lease has created a dangerous situation near Sundance, where two ranchers now find themselves at loggerheads over grazing rights.

When the state purchased a parcel of land in the Moskee area a few years ago, it allowed the grazing lease to pass into new hands.

In any other circumstances, this might not have been a problem, but the parcel forms the filling in a sandwich of properties that were previously all owned or leased by the same rancher.

For more than 40 years, no fences were necessary.

Rising tension

The state failed to listen to local adv...