Opinion ID: 704021
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Ward Terrace

Text: 60 The district court initially found that the Navajos and Hopis jointly grazed throughout the Ward Terrace area in 1934. Masayesva, 793 F.Supp. at 1517. The court subsequently amended its findings of fact to clarify what it meant by Ward Terrace. The court decided that the Hopis had not shown that an area bounded by Ward Terrace on the east, Highway 89 to Cameron on the west, and the Little Colorado River on the southwest, had been used substantially, and so excluded it from the joint use area. Id. at 1534. The court also delimited the southern boundary of Hopi use in the Ward Terrace area. Id. at 1534-35. 61 The Hopis argue that the district court erred in concluding that 129-300 cattle could not have intensively used the entire Ward Terrace and that Hopi use was therefore not sufficiently substantial to constitute location. Id. at 1535, n. 6. However, the district court explained in footnote 6 why it rejected the Hopi evidence. The court pointed to one witness' lack of specificity, the inconsistency of another witness' testimony, and the failure of proof of intensive, frequent use. The district court's findings as to Ward Terrace were not clearly erroneous. 62