Basic Math.
The BLM's Claim that the legal means for them to relieve him of his grazing rights occurred in 1993. The Grandfather purchased those Rights as per the Grand Daughter in 1882.
1993 minus 1882 is 111 Years.
correction 1887 so it would be 106 years
First, the BLM first sought a legal means of relieving Cliven Bundy of his grazing rights in 1998, not 1993.
Second, you and I calculate differently. I would say that, as a minimum, the federal government asserted its rights to the land when it required a contract and grazing fees in 1934, under the federal Taylor Grazing Act. I would say the Bundy’s were aware of that at least as early as 1934, when the Bundy’s first entered into a grazing contract and began to pay grazing fees to the federal government. As to the BLM in particular, I would say the BLM first asserted its claim to the property in question in 1946, when the Grazing Service (which held the leases under the Taylor Grazing Act) was merged with the General Land Office to form the BLM.
Under my most generous interpretation, the period from 1882 to 1946 does not equal ‘over 100 years.” As I said, we calculate differently.