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Locals remove fencing erected by group claiming 1,400 acres of U.S. Forest Service land in southwestern Colorado

Members of the Free Land Holder Committee have past ties to polygamist sect led by Warren Jeffs

Mancos resident Ryan Borchers uses wire cutters to remove fencing that a group calling itself the Free Land Holders Committee erected within the San Juan National Forest in Montezuma County, in southwestern Colorado, on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. Borchers was joined by a number of area residents upset over the fence. (Photo by Shaun Stanley/Special to The Denver Post)
Mancos resident Ryan Borchers uses wire cutters to remove fencing that a group calling itself the Free Land Holders Committee erected within the San Juan National Forest in Montezuma County, in southwestern Colorado, on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. Borchers was joined by a number of area residents upset over the fence. (Photo by Shaun Stanley/Special to The Denver Post)
Noelle Phillips of The Denver Post.
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The Free Land Holders Committee began building the fences on Saturday, alarming ranchers who use the federal land for cattle grazing and those who ride mountain bikes, hike and cross-country ski in area known locally as Chicken Creek.
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