You need to go read the Klamath Basin Crisis stuff. This is nothing new out here. We hear your outrage but we have been dealing with this for a looooooong time.
Klamath Basin Crisis
Land Grab list
The last link is a bunch of articles that have to do with the government stealing land.
Yes, I have followed the Klamath disaster. It still makes me sick. Then there is the Darby area in Ohio, were they want to take over 5000 acres of the best farm land in the US and make it a Wild Life Area, and then stopping ranchers from letting cattle graze and taking their water rights.
There was a post on here the other day concerning the Range Wars Heating up in the West....one person posted, I think it was the 3rd post, how it was about time these folks quit getting something for nothing....I had a fit!