And you thought welfare ranching’s draw on subsidy was limited to ridiculously below market price for forage, public agency ranch-hands (range cons), predator abatement (slaughter), roads, water developments, landscape level public land habitat alteration (forage maximization) projects, and other industry infrastructure and externality costs bought and paid for on the public dime.

Now, The Times-News explains how the nation’s largest welfare ranching empire, Simplot Livestock Management Company, is catching a piece of Otter’s secured wildfire kickback following the Murphy Complex. Otter family ranch receives wildfire aid :

The company’s primary stockholder is Otter’s ex-wife, Gay Simplot. Otter worked for 30 years for Simplot. The ranch is used for livestock owned by the Simplot Company. The land is in a trust fund for Otter’s children from his first marriage, according to Otter’s office.

And in record time. How’s that for custom and culture ?