That’s just it. There have been lawsuits upon lawsuits upon lawsuits. Eventually, ranchers go broke going to court and they give up. That was why Bundy originally quit paying the BLM. He said, “Why should I pay these guys to run me out of business and off my land?” And as GilesB mentioned here (thank you, Giles, by the way), once you peel back the layers of the onion, the Feds DO NOT OWN this land. They were originally paid to “manage” the land, which they stopped doing once their intention was to take it.
“...once you peel back the layers of the onion, the Feds DO NOT OWN this land. They were originally paid to “manage” the land, which they stopped doing once their intention was to take it.”
Like all government bureaucracies, the BLM has decided that it’s not “the people’s land,” but rather it’s “their land.” Ditto for those land grabbers, The Army Corps of Engineers. The GOP would do well to start talking right now about returning substantial portions of this land to the citizens, and not take 20 years to do it.