It does matter that they had been doing it for years on public access land. And the “owner” is us. It is not the Fed.
We are the people...the FIRST branch of Government.
We are the first branch mentioned: “We the PEOPLE of the United States...”
If the owner is ‘us,’ has he been sending you a dividend on the money he saved by grazing his cattle for free on ‘our’ land? Or some steaks?