Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch was the main access route for the locals to hunt on public lands since the Spanish Land Grant days.
Ted blocked off local hunters, fishermen, fire wood collectors...who had this historical access. These middle class folks do not have an extra $12,000 per...They were hunting and fishing to put food on the table and firewood to heat their homes, etc.
Otherwise, Ted can charge all he wants.
Maybe the locals should have bought it, or at least claimed a right of way.