In an era where we have countless public lands enemies, whether its mining operations, mass logging, housing developers, federal and state governments, among many others, I didn't have cults on my Bingo card. Yet, here we are.
Now, we've talked about the Free Land Holders Committee before, as a few months back, the former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints cult out of Colorado set up shop and erected a bunch of barbed wire fencing around a plot of land they call theirs. There was just one problem, that land was owned by the federal government, not the cult.
And the locals who recreated in the San Juan National Forest and derived their revenue from the area, were none too pleased by the cult's annexation of the land. After they began discovering the barbed wire fencing along well-used trails and sections of the forest, they got together and began taking it all down themselves, even though the local sheriffs have been wary about those efforts due to possible violence between the groups.
