According to his family contracts from the 1800’s, it is NEVADA property.
sokay..... the UN will likely TAKE..ownership before this is cleared up....
HOW ODD eh?
“So-called Non Government Organizations (but can we really call them such now that they are part of the government?) ..[.RE THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER...[ And select “law enforcement” officers such as the Clark County Nevada Sheriff, Doug Gillespie.
And if you want to drive someone off, you don’t have to do it forcefully. You simply make it too expensive for them and drive them out of business.
I get the impression that is what happened. Only the last remaining rancher refused to be knocked down without fighting.
Regulations and contracts written in disappearing ink, with new rules made up on the spot depending on whose cash flow was being tapped for the moment.
Golden Rule - them who has the gold makes the rules. Keeping them enforced, however, may take more gold than is easily available.
An evolving arrangement, mutating as we look at it.
By the way, the desert tortoise was never for a moment in any danger from cattle grazing. However, there may be considerable natural gas and petroleum beneath the surface lands, in a formation that can be opened up by hydraulic fracturing, “Fracking”. This alone is enough to set the enviro-weenies and greenies over the edge, that somebody might be able to extract huge supplies of energy and thus make this area into a boom growth location.