E104 - The Maudes and the US Forest Service: How a Fence Line Dispute Almost Tore a Family Apart - Charles & Heather Maude | #104

Charles and Heather Maude are fifth-generation ranchers in South Dakota who farm home raised beef and pork direct-to-consumer. In this episode they describe their family history on the land, their early lives in agriculture, and the events that led to a criminal indictment by the United States Forest Service over a disputed boundary fence.

The episode documents their personal background, the mechanics of Western land use, and a detailed account of how a civil land issue escalated into a federal criminal case.

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Federal criminal indictment over a land disputeHow the case escalated...