Hage never got his money, did he. Now that he’s dead, the decision’s overturned. Like it was no harm, no foul? Really?
The goalposts are moved in these land wars. Eminent domain, water/grazing rights in question, millions of acres sought for ‘energy zones’ (which may turn around and be packaged to our enemies for their own purposes)—all these issues in contention can be argued from a stated legal point of view that favors federal positions.
They remind me of the capitulations at the end of the Ottoman Empire—which sliced up territory to the highest bidder and helped collapse that government.
The larger picture here is the sovereignty of US land. Not FEDERAL land. We each own federal land, as we are the people here. Not the Communist Chinese.
Hage didn’t get his money. His legal theories sucked. However, the BLM has been ordered to give his heirs a grazing permit and access to water.
We do all own the public land, but we also elect Congress to administer it for us, per the Constitution. Unhappily, we have elected Congresses and even a Republican House that won’t lift a finger to stop the environmental radicals.