[Ben Ficklin]

Bundy doesn't really own a ranch. He owns some land that his family homesteaded, but he can't raise but a few cows on that land.

But he, and those before him, had the large grazing lease that he could graze large numbers of cattle on. That's the way Congress set it up way back when.

But Congress changed it in 1976 with FLPMA, and the Sagebrush Rebellion coincides with FLPMA.

[Jim Robinson]

Well, yeah. What’s your point? My point is congress is not empowered by the constitution to do this. Where is federal control over such a huge amount of so-called public land within a state’s sovereign boundaries enumerated and delegated by the constitution to the central government? Why is it not left to the states and the people as per the 10th amendment?