BLM has been out of control for some time. Feds are always power hungry.
I’ve had run-ins with the BLM nazis in the past...what a bunch of arrogant A-holes they are. I served on a public lands advisory committee for awhile and the meetings which were attended by the local district FS ranger and blm manager always had an armed blm idiot lurking in the background.
Complete jerks...wash-outs from legitimate law enforcement jobs so they end up trying to bust people for driving across the sagebrush.
Indeed.
All large bureaucracies are power hungry, no exceptions.
And it seems the lower you go down the command structure, the more arbitrary, capricious and criminal is their behavior, apparently with impunity.
They enjoy total control over our lands, but feel free to abuse and exploit the "unique" value they "protect" against us unwashed peons.