It’s not even “public land” in the sense that it belongs to the entire USA.
It is NEVADA land that is a Sovereign State within the boundaries of the other sovereign United States of America.
The federal government is not the owner of the land, and any fees should be paid to Nevada.
You are incorrect. The title to the land is held by the Federal Government as is the vast majority of land in Nevada. Clark County has been assigned the administrative authority to the grazing rights on that Federal land, grazing rights that were once controlled by Bundy.
As this court previously ruled in United States v. Bundy, Case No. CV-S-98-531-JBR (RJJ) (D. Nev. Nov. 4, 1998), “the public lands in Nevada are the property of the United States because the United States has held title to those public lands since 1848, when Mexico ceded the land to the United States.”
In the West, grazing rights and water rights are much more important than ownership of real estate.
Nevada says it’s federal
No, the land does not belong to Nevada. The US government retains the title they have held for over 160 years. Nevada was required by Congress IN 1864 to “forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within said territory, and that the same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition of the United States; and that lands belonging to citizens of the United States”. It was a condition for statehood that Nevada accepted.
Court cases going back at least as far as 1840 reject your belief that the federal government cannot own property, or that Congress, IAW the explicit direction of the Constitution, cannot make rules to manage that land.
Pretending otherwise is dishonest.
The federal government is not the owner of the land, and any fees should be paid to Nevada.Nevada law, constitution, and government says otherwise. Are all three of those wrong?