That's not the way the daughter explains it, nor the way he explained it on TV last night.
So, there are 2 sides to this story, and today the Nevada Governor slammed the Fed and not Bundy.
I’m sure that the Bundy clan feel that they have been wronged. But her own statement shows that not to be the case. From the article “... These men bought and paid for their rights to the range and also built waters, fences and roads...”
Their ancestors paid the government to use that land.
“...My dad did pay his grazing fees for years to the BLM until they were no longer using his fees to help him and to improve....”
Bundy himself paid grazing fees but when he disagreed with how those fees were used, he quit paying. Of course, to make his position sound better, he says he “fired” the BLM. Guess what, he doesn’t get to fire the BLM because the BLM was established by the land owner (US government) to manage the land that the US government owns. They did not work for him in the first place.
Once he stopped paying his fees, he stopped having access rights to that land. No different than a renter who stops paying rent.