Bundy owns the water and forage rights on those lands and owned them long before BLM ever took over management.
http://danaloeschradio.com/the-real-story-of-the-bundy-ranch/
The BLM is in this solely to drive the Bundys off their land.
From your link...this does clarify a few things....
Bundy has in fact paid fees to Clark County, Nevada in an arrangement pre-dating the BLM. The BLM arrived much later, changed the details of the setup without consulting with Bundy — or any other rancher — and then began systematically driving out cattle and ranchers. Bundy refused to pay BLM, especially after they demanded he reduce his heard’s head count down to a level that would not sustain his ranch. Bundy OWNS the water and forage rights to this land. He paid for these rights. He built fences, established water ways, and constructed roads with his own money, with the approval of Nevada and BLM. When BLM started using his fees to run him off the land and harassing him, he ceased paying. So should BLM reimburse him for managing the land and for the confiscation of his water and forage rights?
I don’t think anyone knows the definitive facts, particularly not Dana Loesch. On national TV, she says Bundy made payments to Nevada County; on her blog, she says he made payments to Clark County. That could clearly be a slip of the tongue.
One night on national TV, she says “he says he has an easement; maybe he does.” The next morning in her blog, she writes “Bundy OWNS the water and forage rights to this land. He paid for these rights.”
She doesn’t say what made her switch from “maybe easement” to capital-letters ownership of forage rights overnight.
You’re relying on that blog as definitive?